Keystone Flagship: USS Pennsylvania Leading the Navy through Two World Wars

Posted by on Sep 9, 2016 in | Comments Off on Keystone Flagship: USS Pennsylvania Leading the Navy through Two World Wars “Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not drill.” The message went out from the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Its brevity belied the gravity of the event it reported. The White House released the information shortly before 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, and many people learned the news throughout the afternoon as radio programs were...
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The Pennsy Guns at the Pennsylvania Military Museum

Posted by on Sep 9, 2016 in | Comments Off on The Pennsy Guns at the Pennsylvania Military Museum State Museum curator Robert D. Hill’s article about the USS Pennsylvania (see “Keystone Flagship: USS Pennsylvania Leading the Navy through Two World Wars”) mentions that the ship underwent a significant refit in 1945. The ship’s wartime armament included a dozen 14-inch guns, arrayed in four 3-gun turrets (“14-inch” refers to the diameter of the projectile). Among other work, the...
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