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To: US Navy Vet

Isn’t there another battleship sunk near the Arizona?


30 posted on 05/27/2018 11:02:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

No. There were only 3 that couldn’t be put back into service. Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah Oklahoma was towed back to the mainland in 1947, but, capsized before reaching land, and, Utahwhich was being used as target practice by the Americans and was already out of service.

Actually, Pearl Harbor, while a tactical defeat of the Americans, was a strategic defeat of the Japanese. They missed blowing up the tank farm, and, most of the ships hit were returned to service. Leyte Gulf was was a bit of revenge for that.


34 posted on 05/27/2018 11:31:06 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Not a battleship but some type of smaller ship, the Utah. It’s on the northern point of Ford Island.


40 posted on 05/27/2018 11:54:03 AM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The USS Utah’s remains are on the other side of Ford Island.


43 posted on 05/27/2018 12:02:44 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The ex-USS Utah is directly across Ford Island from the Arizona. The guns had been removed and the ship re-designated AG-16 (no name) after the Washington Naval Treaty went into effect. They would sail it out of the harbor for aerial bombing practice (with inert bombs). 46 were killed when she went down. Attempts to salvage her, a la the Oklahoma, were not successful, and she still lies where she was when the attempts were abandoned. You can see traces on Google Maps.


46 posted on 05/27/2018 12:58:58 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Isn’t there another battleship sunk near the Arizona?

Nope. All the other BBs were raised and put back in the fight, except Oklahoma, who was salvaged. Missouri is there now, but a bit farther down the channel
47 posted on 05/27/2018 2:00:17 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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