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1/96 USS West Virginia (1941) Casemate Deck #2
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USS West Virginia (BB-48) was laid down in 1920, the fourth Colorado class superdreadnought of the US Navy. However, due to the Washington Naval Treaty being signed two years later, the previous vessel, Washington (BB-47), was cancelled at 75.9% completion and sunk as a gunnery target.
West Virginia entered service in 1923, and the following year became the flagship of the Battle Fleet's Battleship Divisions, spending the 1920s and 1930s participating in the Fleet Problems (exercises), undergoing a minor refit in the early 1930s, receiving a number of AA guns and a catapult and spotting aircraft on her quarterdeck, but further extensive modifications were never carried out before the start of the Pacific War in December 1941.
West Virginia was moored alongside Tennessee in Battleship Row, Pearl Harbour, and was hit by seven torpedoes and two bombs; fortunately prompt damage control by the crew and the placement of the hits prevented the battleship from capsizing, instead settling on the sandy bottom of the harbour. She was refloated in May 1942, put into drydock in Pearl to assess the damage, and patched up to be sent to Puget Sound Navy Yard for reconstruction.
She emerged in mid-1944 basically as a new ship. The entire superstructure was removed and replaced, as well as the entire secondary and AA batteries, bulges were fitted, radars, new fire control directors, and as many 40 mm and 20 mm guns as they could fit on such a platform.
The main event in WV's career was the Battle of Surigao Strait in October that year, where she led her sister Maryland, the battleships Tennessee, California, Mississippi, and the older Pennsylvania, against the forces of Adm. Nishimura: the sisters Fuso and Yamashiro, the aviation cruiser Mogami, four destroyers, heavy cruisers Nachi and Ashigara, and the light cruiser Abukuma leading a flotilla of seven more Japanese destroyers. West Virginia's up-to-date fire control and radars allowed her to fire and correct her gunnery blind, using only the electronic equipment, in contrast to other American battleships, which were not as extensively updated.
The battleship then took part in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa as part of the bombardment force, being present at the surrender on 2 September in Tokyo Bay, and then rolling on with Operation Magic Carpet until January 1946. Kept in reserve until 1959, West Virginia was towed away for scrapping in 1961.
West Virginia entered service in 1923, and the following year became the flagship of the Battle Fleet's Battleship Divisions, spending the 1920s and 1930s participating in the Fleet Problems (exercises), undergoing a minor refit in the early 1930s, receiving a number of AA guns and a catapult and spotting aircraft on her quarterdeck, but further extensive modifications were never carried out before the start of the Pacific War in December 1941.
West Virginia was moored alongside Tennessee in Battleship Row, Pearl Harbour, and was hit by seven torpedoes and two bombs; fortunately prompt damage control by the crew and the placement of the hits prevented the battleship from capsizing, instead settling on the sandy bottom of the harbour. She was refloated in May 1942, put into drydock in Pearl to assess the damage, and patched up to be sent to Puget Sound Navy Yard for reconstruction.
She emerged in mid-1944 basically as a new ship. The entire superstructure was removed and replaced, as well as the entire secondary and AA batteries, bulges were fitted, radars, new fire control directors, and as many 40 mm and 20 mm guns as they could fit on such a platform.
The main event in WV's career was the Battle of Surigao Strait in October that year, where she led her sister Maryland, the battleships Tennessee, California, Mississippi, and the older Pennsylvania, against the forces of Adm. Nishimura: the sisters Fuso and Yamashiro, the aviation cruiser Mogami, four destroyers, heavy cruisers Nachi and Ashigara, and the light cruiser Abukuma leading a flotilla of seven more Japanese destroyers. West Virginia's up-to-date fire control and radars allowed her to fire and correct her gunnery blind, using only the electronic equipment, in contrast to other American battleships, which were not as extensively updated.
The battleship then took part in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa as part of the bombardment force, being present at the surrender on 2 September in Tokyo Bay, and then rolling on with Operation Magic Carpet until January 1946. Kept in reserve until 1959, West Virginia was towed away for scrapping in 1961.
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