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	Battleships USS Tennessee BB-43
		The fifth Tennessee was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard; launched on 30 April 1919sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee, and commissioned on 3 June 1920, Capt. Richard H. Leigh in command.
		Tennessee approached the island from the east, closing to a range from which she could open fire with her 5-inch secondary battery.
		Tennessee's heavy guns checked fire at 0852 when the first amphibian tractors were 300 yards from the beach, and her 40-millimeters took up the fire until the vehicles landed.
	www.multied.com /navy/battle/Tenessee.html (4820 words)

	USS Tennessee (BB-43)
		USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 16th state.
		Tennessee and her sister ship, California (BB-44), were the first American battleships built to a "post-Jutland" hull design.
		While Tennessee was at New York City, one of her 300-kilowatt ship's-service generators blew up on 30 October, completely destroying the turbine end of the machine and injuring two men.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Tennessee_(BB-43).html (2260 words)

	USS TENNESSEE (BB-43)
		TENNESSEE was about 7,500 yards from the island when her lookouts reported gun flashes from the beach, quickly followed by shell splashes just off the starboard bow and close to one of her screening destroyers.
		TENNESSEE's station was 8,000 yards from Suribachi at the southern end of the landing area, and the water and her was churned by hundreds of vehicles and landing craft as the successive waves moved in.
		TENNESSEE was one of the older, yet still useful, ships selected for inclusion in the "mothball fleet;" and, during 1946, she underwent a process of preservation and preparation for inactivation.
	www.combie.net /webharbor/museum/bb-43-1.html (14273 words)

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		Tennessee was about 7,500 yards from the island when her lookouts reported gun flashes from the beach, quickly followed by shell splashes just off the starboard bow and close to one of her screening destroyers.
		Tennessee's station was 8,000 yards from Suribachi at the southern end of the landing area, and the water and her was churned by hundreds of vehicles and landing craft as the successive waves moved in.
		Tennessee was one of the older, yet still useful, ships selected for inclusion in the "mothball fleet;" and, during 1946, she underwent a process of preservati on and preparation for inactivation.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/bb43.htm (14427 words)

	Historical Sketch of USS Tennessee (BB-43),
		On 26 February 1942, Tennessee departed Puget Sound, however, her role in the war was not to be in the line of battle for which she had trained for two decades because she simply could not keep up with the carriers and other faster ships.
		Tennessee fought off several attacks and then heard the electrifying word that a Japanese naval task force was expected to try to enter Leyte Gulf that night.
		Tennessee was part of the group of six old battleships that moved south to take up positions at the mouth of Surigao Strait to face the attacking.
	digital.lib.ecu.edu /special/pearlharbor/ph/NESS/hNESS.html (1342 words)

	USN Ships--USS Tennessee (BB-43)
		USS Tennessee, a 32,300-ton battleship, was built at the New York Navy Yard.
		Moored inboard of USS West Virginia (BB-48), she was hit by two bombs, which damaged two of her four gun turrets, and was scorched by burning oil from the sunken USS Arizona.
		USS Tennessee was part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet for twelve more years and was sold for scrapping in July 1959.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/bb43.htm (892 words)

	Battleships USS Tennessee BB-43
		The fifth Tennessee was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard; launched on 30 April 1919sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee, and commissioned on 3 June 1920, Capt. Richard H. Leigh in command.
		While Tennessee was at New York, one of her 300-kilowatt ship'sservice generators blew up on 30 October, "completely destroying the turbine end of the machine" and injuring two men.
		Tennessee's heavy guns checked fire at 0852 when the first amphibian tractors were 300 yards from the beach, and her 40-millimeters took up the fire until the vehicles landed.
	www.navyhistory.com /battle/Tenessee.html (4820 words)

	USS Tennessee, Battleship BB-43 History, 1945
		Tennessee's assigned firing course took her along the southeastern shore of Iwo Jima, and her 14-inch guns struck the slopes of Mount Suribachi while the secondaries aimed at the high ground at the north end of the beach.
		Tennessee's station was 3.000 yards from Suribachi at the southern end of the landing area, and the water around her was churned by hundred of vehicles and landing craft as the successive waves moved in.
		With Tennessee were Colorado (BB-45), Maryland (BB-46), West Virginia (BB-48), New Mexico (BB-40) and Idaho, as well as Nevada, New York, (BB-34) Texas (BB-35) and the venerable Arkansas (BB-33), first commissioned in 1912 and still pulling her weight; she was the only battleship in the fleet still armed with 12-inch guns.
	www.greatwhitefleet.org /tennessee/05/history6.htm (2972 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Tennessee (BB 44)
		The fifth Tennessee was laid down on 14 May 1917 at the New York Navy Yard; launched on 30 April 1919; sponsored by Miss Helen Lenore Roberts, daughter of the governor of Tennessee; and commissioned on 3 June 1920, Capt. Richard H. Leigh in command.
		USS Arizona (BB-39), moored directly astern of Tennessee, was undergoing a period of upkeep from the repair ship USS Vestal (AR- 4), berthed alongside her.
		She retained her battery of 10 40-millimeter quadruple antiaircraft mounts and 43 20- millimeter guns, but her main-battery directors received improved models of the Mark 8 radar, and the Mark 4 radars used with the 5-inch gun directors were replaced by the newer combination of paired Mark 12 and Mark 22 dual-purpose equipment.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/tennessee/bb43-tenn.html (14218 words)

	USN Ship Types--Battleships
		The second building phase began in 1937 and was effectively finished in 1944 with the commissioning of USS Missouri (BB-63), the last of ten battleships completed during this period.
		USS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16"/45 guns at the Kamaishi plant of the Japan Iron Company, 250 miles north of Tokyo.
		A second before, USS South Dakota (BB-57), from which this photograph was taken, fired the initial salvo of the first naval gunfire bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/usnshtp/bb/bb.htm (1918 words)

	Pearl Harbor Dec 7 1941
		USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
		USS California (BB-44) - Sunk at her berth.
		USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth.
	www.eccchistory.org /Dec71941.htm (370 words)

	Battleship Row during the Pearl Harbor Attack
		The ninth, USS Colorado, was undergoing overhaul on the west coast.
		Tennessee, relatively undamaged is seen behind West Virginia trapped in her berth by West Virginia on one side and the mooring quays on the other.
		To the left of her are USS Tennessee (BB-43) and the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48).
	www.geocities.com /bb37usa/battleshiprow.html (1007 words)

	Inkdrawings by Warren - Page 2
		The USS New Jersey was recommissioned in 1968 and sent to Vietnam where her 16-inch guns were found to be perfect for eliminating the N. Vietnamese shore batteries that harassed U.S. destroyers working off the coast of Vietnam near the DMZ.
		The USS MEMPHIS was swamped and washed ashore by a tsunami in the Dominican Republic in August 1915.
		The USS CALIFORNIA was sunk and the USS TENNESSEE, which was inboard of the USS MARYLAND and ahead of the USS ARIZONA, found herself pinned against her quay.
	panamaliving.com /inkdrawings2.html (1616 words)

	ModelWarships.com Review
		Tennessee would keep her torpedo system until a 1937 overhaul and the former torpedo rooms would be converted into small arms ammunition storage compartments.
		When the Tennessee had a catapult installed atop main gun turret #3, the stern aircraft crane was removed, with the new one being delayed until August 1929 overhaul.
		Tennessee sits beside the repair ship AJAX (AR-6) undergoing repairs to her starboard side gun mounts after a kamikaze struck the ship on 12 April 1945.
	www.modelwarships.com /features/archives/tennesse-bb43/Tennessee.html (712 words)

	shipsnamedtn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was badly damaged, but she was repaired, and modernized and by 1943 was ready for action again.
		USS Tennessee served through the rest of the war and was finally decommissioned in 1947.
		The CSS Tennessee fought bravely until she could no longer fight due to a loss of maneuverability which prevented her being able to bring her guns to bear on the enemy.
	home.usit.net /~pomwd95/shipnametn.htm (818 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pearl Harbor
		USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss whe n a bomb hit her magazine.
		USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
		USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
	www.snopes.com /photos/military/pearlharbor.asp (585 words)

	IS Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Iron Shipwright kit depicts Tennessee in its post-rebuild form, so if you are looking for an early war, cage-masted Tennessee, this kit is not for you.
		The end result was a battleship identical to the new Tennessee class except for main armament and a few 20mm mounts.
		The kit includes both the 14" triple turrets of the Tennessee class and West Virginia's 16" twin turrets.
	www.steelnavy.com /ISTennessee.htm (260 words)

	Submarine Models, SEAWOLF, TRIDENT, LOS ANGELES, and STURGEON. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first TENNESSEE was a Wooden Screw Frigate used by the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
		The second TENNESSEE was an Armored Cruiser (Pennsylvania-Class) and was launched on 3 December 1904 and commissioned on 17 July 1906.
		The submarine USS TENNESSEE (SSBN 734) is the fourth U.S. Naval vessel to be named in honor of the sixteenth state admitted into the union, and is the ninth Trident Submarine to be commissioned.
	www.creative-woodworking.net /TRIDENT/USS_TENNESSEE.htm (575 words)

	USS Tennessee (BB 43)
		Tennessee (inboard) and West Virginia are in the center of the image.
		The sterns of Tennessee and West Virginia are barely visible in a break in the smoke.
		The turrets visible in the foreground are from the light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL 48).
	battleships.freewebsitehosting.com /Tennessee.html (376 words)

	Pearl Harbor
		The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States.) In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft.
		USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
		USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth.
	www.rivervet.com /pearl_harbor.htm (677 words)

	USS TENNESSEE (BB-43)
		Moored inboard West Virginia, Tennessee was spared from the torpedo attacks that crippled many of the exposed battleships.
		Wedged between the sunken West Virginia and the mooring quays, she was unable to flee the approaching oil fires from Arizona.
		Although she suffered fire damage on her stern as a result, Tennessee managed to hold back most of the oil fires with her propeller wash and deployed fire hoses.
	www.ibiblio.org /phha/Tennessee.html (462 words)

	Cochran Story
		The USS Tennessee was wedged in with the USS West Virginia, which sunk on our port side.
		After that was settled, the USS Tennessee and her escorts went to the Bearing Sea.
		One time when both ships, the Tennessee and Mississippi, were in Pearl, I was assigned to a work party and sent in a motor launch to the supply dock for supplies.
	westernwebs.net /pearlharbor/cochran.htm (1936 words)

	A diary: 5th Naval Task Force - Aboard the USS Tennessee (BB-43)
		It was his father's diary, written during the first half of 1945 as he served aboard the USS Tennessee (BB-43).
		The U.S.S. Nevada was hit by a jap suicide plane and killed 11 men and wounded several.
		USS Tennessee (BB-43) on the Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center website
	www.geocities.com /bibliofile/BB_43_diary.html (2264 words)

	Bulletin Board for USS Tennessee - BB 43
		My dad is looking for an old mate, Max Bear Tarlton, they were in boot camp together and then my dad went on to the Enterprise and Max went on to the USS Tennessee, he would love to get in contact with him, if anyone knows how I can do this, let me know.
		all i am the son of a bb 43 shipmate that served aboard her from 1942- after vj day.
		My father was one of the commissioning crew of the USS TENNESSEE BB- 43 when she took that maiden voyage.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,200256,00.html?Page=1 (497 words)

	Battleship USS Washington BB56 - Shipmates
		Nelson was on board for all major action in the South Pacific until USS Indiana collision in 1944.
		Served on the USS Tennessee (BB-43), USS Monitor (LSV-5), (APL-53), USS Keosanqua (ATA 198), USS Amphibion (AR- 13), ONC firefighting and damage control school at Treasure Island.
		Completed basic training at Great Lakes, IL boarded the USS Washington December 1943 and participated in raids of Kavieng Islands through the occupation of Okinawa and was honorably discharged in February 1946.
	www.usswashington.com /profil31.htm (855 words)

	Battleship Photo Index BB-46 USS MARYLAND
		In the summer of 1925, the California (BB-44) led the Battle Fleet and a division of cruisers from the Scouting Fleet on a very successful good-will cruise to Australia and New Zealand.
		The following vessels might be the Colorado (BB-45), Maryland (BB-46) and West Virginia (BB-48) followed by Tennessee (BB-43) and three older battleships, the New Mexico (BB-40), Mississippi (BB-41) & Idaho (BB-42).
		The United States Battle Fleet steaming in column off the California coast during the middle or later 1920s.
	www.navsource.org /archives/01/46a.htm (1162 words)

	December 7, 1941
		Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States).
		The information herein is © 2000 to The USS NEW JERSEY Veteran's INC., all rights reserved or the sources are listed respectively.
		This web-site designed by John Schultz, a fellow battleship sailor from the USS IOWA(BB-61) and developed by Ed Campbell, a member of USS New Jersey Veterans, Inc.
	www.ussnewjersey.org /december_7,_1941.htm (436 words)

	Pearl Harbor Statistics
		The USS QUAPAW ATF 110 (Auxiliary Tug Fleet)
		But note, that doesn't mean they weren't taken by this mysterious 'old shipmate' just because the 'shipmate' served in USS QUAPAW.
		It means that this mysterious shipmate had the pictures when he was serving in QUAPAW and took them while he was stationed on some other command in Pearl Harbor during that attack.
	www.usshancockcv19.com /pearl_harbor_history.htm (585 words)

	Battleships
		The USS TENNESSEE 8843 and USS CALlFORNlA BB-44 were the first US Navy battleships that did not have the casement gun positions mounted in hull, thus giving these ships a much cleaner appearance and reducing wetness forward.
		The USS MARYLAND BB-46 was the first battleship completed with 16" guns for her main battery which made her the most powerful battleship in the world in 1921 when she was new.
		Included with this hull is a 4 piece fiberglass superstructure molding set which includes the main structure from the main deck to the 05 level, forward main director tower, and the fore and aff stacks.
	members.aol.com /ssycatalog/battleships.html (3184 words)

	Pearl Harbor Photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker Photo Gallery by rhinoman at pbase.com
		The USS Lexingtonwas ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United State s)
		USS Ari zona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
		At the time of Pearl Harbor's bombing, the USS Quaqpaw had yet to be built.
	www.pbase.com /rhinoman/pearl_harbor&page=all (563 words)

	Bulletin Board for USS Tennessee - BB 43
		Hello, my father served on the USS Tennessee in 1942......I had heard some years ago that this ship was docked somewhere on the east coast and was available to tour......if anyone has any information please contact me at gr8tgrl39@yahoo.com......I'd be very interested in visiting this ship......if...
		According to family legend my father Raymond Lester Manley served on BB 43 possibly as early as 1921.
		My name is guy Adkins and I found a picture log album for the U.S.S. Tennessee from the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageBulletinBoard/1,13492,200256,00.html?Page=2 (323 words)

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