USS WEST VIRGINIA BB-48 Battleship Pearl Harbor 1941 Color Cachet, Pictorial PM

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USS WEST VIRGINIA BB-48 Memorial Naval cover with pictorial postmark from
Honolulu, Hawaii
dated December 7, 2020. Color printed photo cachet #1391 by Alvin Eckert
USCS
#9964. Cover franked with a 55 cent USS Missouri stamp # 5392.
The cover was prepared on a un-gummed, archive quality envelope.
This proud 624 foot Colorado Class battleship was commissioned on December 1, 1923
and shortly thereafter she ran aground on June 16, 1924 on Hampton Roads with no
hull damage. She was ordered to the Pacific in 1939 and was berthed on Battleship Row
on the fateful Sunday morning.
She was heavily damaged by six torpedo hits and several bombs. She sank upright and
was not re-floated until May 17, 1942. She was rebuilt at Puget Sound Shipyard and
rejoined the Pacific Fleet in the Fall of 1944, in time to participate in the Battle of Leyte
Gulf. She was among the battleships that crossed the "T" and destroyed the enemy fleet
on October 24th. The fine fighting ship earned five battle stars in WW II, including the
invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was present in San Diego for Navy Day 1945,
but spent her remaining years in reserve, until scrapped in 1959.
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