USS West Virginia (BB-48) Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941
Battleships USS West Virginia and Tennessee
USS West Virginia (BB-48) approaching drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 8 June 1942
massive damage to hull plating inflicted by several Japanese Type 91 torpedoes
USS West Virginia (BB-48) in the ABSD floating drydock at Espiritu Santo November 1944 2
USS West Virginia photographed before the war
USS West Virginia (BB-48) in drydock No. 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 17 June 1942
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 off the Puget Sound Navy Yard Washington 2 July 1944
USS West Virginia, Pearl Harbor on 30 April 1943 2
USS West Virginia 1934
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 during battle fleet maneuvers November 1929, bow view
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 – Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 9 September 1942
USS West Virginia 20 April 1943
USS West Virginia broadside
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 off the Puget Sound Navy Yard 2 July 1944
USS West Virginia in floating drydock ABSD 1 off Aessi Island 13 November 1944
Battleship USS West Virginia in drydock No 1 at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 11 June 1942
USS West Virginia in the ABSD floating drydock at Espiritu Santo November 1944
Battleship USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor on 30 April 1943
USS West Virginia off the Puget Sound Navy Yard Washington 2 July 1944 following reconstruction
Battleship USS West Virginia – Panama Canal 7 March 1927
USS West Virginia underway off Pearl Harbor 30 April 1943
Battleship USS West Virginia bow 1934
USS West Virginia in Gatun Locks Panama 1930
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 starboard
Battleship USS West Virginia BB-48 stern view
Sailors Rescue Survivor from USS West Virginia (BB-48) at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941
Colorado-class battleship.
Ordered: 5 December 1916
Laid down: 12 April 1920
Commissioned: 1 December 1923
Main armament: 8 x 410 mm L/45
Fate: sold for scrap on 24 August 1959
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