The Nevada-class battleships has been for the USA a great leap forward, even compared to most contemporary foreign designs. USS Arizona in New York, colorized by irootoko Jr. So she had a long career where she took part in the Aleutian Islands Campaign, the Battles of Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Palau Islands Campaign, the landings on Leyte and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and she fired the last time in anger on another capital ship at the Battle of Surigao Strait. Present in “battlefield row” in 1941, both were attacked, USS Arizona was blasted by an ammunition magazine explosion, sunk and now a memorial, while Pennsylvania was rebuilt, modernized, and was back in action on 30 March 1942, the first of the “sunken” battleships to be ready for action again. Their design was repeated on the New Mexico and Tennessee class built during WW2. The Pennsylvania class were the second class of “standard” US super-dreadnoughts, a simple iteration on the all-of-nothing armour, but innovating as having four triple turrets, and no longer twin turrets on superfiring positions.
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