USS California BB-44
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Anchored USS California, pre-war service
Battleship USS California BB-44
Battleship USS California BB-44 Raised at Pearl Harbor 1942
Battleship USS California BB-44 Towed to Dock at Pearl Harbor 1942
Battleship USS California sinking Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941
Battleship USS California underway 1944
Crewmen on board the battleship USS California (BB-44) abandon ship in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
Forward 14-Inch guns of USS California
Stern View of Battleship USS California BB-44 in Panama Canal 1936
USS California (BB-44) is painted in camouflage Measure 32 Design 16D
USS California being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs
USS California bow view
USS California forward superstructure and 356 mm gun turrets
USS California interwar period
USS California off New York 1934
USS California underway 1944
View of sailors on board the battleship USS California (BB 44) following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor - 1941
View of the battleship USS California BB-44 aflame at Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack - 7 December 1941
View of the battleship USS California BB-44 sinking alongside Ford Island during the Pearl Harbor attack on 7 December 1941
Tennessee-class battleship. Laid down: 25 October 1916 Launched: 20 November 1919 Commissioned: 10 August 1921 Main armament: 12 x 356 mm Complement: ~1100 Fate: Sold for scrap in July 1959 Bibliography:
- U.S. Battleships in Action, Part 1 – Robert C. Stern, Don Greer; Squadron/Signal Publications Warships No. 3
- Grzegorz Nowak - Amerykanski pancernik USS California, Profile Morskie 6 (polish)
- Myron J. Smith - Golden State Battlewagon USS California (BB-44), Warship Series 3, Pictorial Histories Pub Co 1983
- U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History – Norman Friedman; Naval Institute Press 1985
- The Age of the Battleship 1890-1922
- US Navy Dreadnoughts 1914-45 – Osprey New Vanguard 208
- Battleships The First Big Guns, Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) – Philip Kaplan
- Battleships – Peter Hore; Lorenz Books 2005
- Battleships: United States Battleships, 1935-1992 – Naval Institute Press 1995
- Battleships: An Illustrated History of Their Impact – Stanley Sandler
- All the World’s Battleships: 1906 to the Present – Ian Sturton; Conway Maritime Press 2000
- Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 – Ian W. Toll
- Pearl Harbor Story: Authentic Information and Pictures of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 – Swak Inc 1974
- Air Raid: Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7, 1941 – Theodore Taylor
- One Day in History: December 7, 1941 – Rodney P. Carlisle
- Pearl Harbor 1941: The Day of Infamy – Carl Smith; Osprey Campaign 62
- Tora! Tora! Tora! Pearl Harbor 1941 – Mark E. Stille Osprey Raid 26
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor: The United States Enters World War II – Chelsea House Publications 2008
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions – lan Zimm
- Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy – Percy L. Greaves Jr.