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| | U.S. Navy Battleships - USS West Virginia (BB 48) |
 | | West Virginia, meanwhile, was maintaining her position ahead of USS Maryland (BB 46), USS Mississippi (BB-41), USS Tennessee (BB-43), USS California (BB-44), and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) — four of these ships, like West Virginia, veterans of Pearl Harbor. |
 | | West Virginia continued fire support for the Army until 20 April, at which point she headed for Ulithi, only to turn back to Okinawa, hurriedly recalled because of USS Colorado (BB-45) suffering damage when a powder charge exploded while she was loading powder at Kerama Retto. |
 | | At 2004 on 12 August, West Virginia sailors felt a heavy underwater explosion; soon thereafter, at 2058, the battleship intercepted a radio dispatch from USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) reporting that she had been torpedoed. |
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