Unfit for further service, Nevada was decommissioned on 29 August 1946, and sunk for naval gunfire practice on 31 July 1948, in Operation Crossroads. As the first second-generation battleship in the US Navy, Nevada has been described as "revolutionary" [13][14] and "as radical as Dreadnought was in her day" [15] by present-day historians.

On July 31, Nevada was to be sunk by naval gunfire from the modern battleship USS Iowa (16-inch guns) and three light cruisers (6-inch guns). First from 15 miles out, then just five, Nevada was pounded by gunfire, but refused to sink.

2025年3月26日 · War relics come in all shapes and sizes, but something unexpected — a single shoe — has been found on the sunken USS Nevada, which served in both World War I and World War II. The sight clearly...

2023年5月22日 · USS Nevada became the only battleship to have been at both Pearl Harbor during the attack and to take part in the June 6, 1944 landings on Normandy. She was praised for “incredibly accurate” fire support, hitting targets just 600 yards from the front lines.

2022年9月28日 · Nevada was the first battleship to open fire on Japanese aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She was struck by a Type 91 Mod 2 torpedo, after which a second explosive was dropped on the vessel’s gunners by a Nakajima B5N “Kate” torpedo bomber, sending her into a sinking condition and forcing her to be beached.

2020年5月11日 · USS Nevada (BB-36) – dubbed the “unsinkable battleship” that served in two world wars – was found nearly three miles below the water’s surface about 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor, a team of researchers announced Monday.

On July 31, 1948, the battleship USS Nevada BB-36 was sunk by a torpedo from a Navy bomber, ending the career of possibly the most battered ship in history. Not only did the Nevada survive the Pearl Harbor attack in which she was hit by a torpedo and as many as 10 bombs (minimum 6), but she was also hit by a Japanese Kamikaze suicide plane off ...

On the morning of 7 December 1941 in Pearl Harbor, then-Ensign Charles Merdinger awoke to alarms and stepped through his socks in his haste to get to his battle station on board the battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) as she came under attack.

2024年12月3日 · Eight battleships were struck, along with 13 other vessels and nearby airfields. The attack, which launched from six aircraft carriers and came in two waves, resulted in 2,403 killed and 1,178...

USS Nevada (BB-36), eldest (by a few months) of the battleships in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, was hit by one torpedo during the last part of the Japanese torpedo planes' attack. This...