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USS TEXAS (1895) at anchor.

Photographed in the late 1890s.

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HMT Olympic arriving at New York still wearing her Dazzle paint scheme.

Photographed sometime between 1916 and 1917.

National Archives Washington DC

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Warrant Officer Antoni Markiewicz of No. 302 Polish Fighter Squadron and his bride Yvonne Munday inspecting what was left of their wedding presents after the wedding reception house was bombed while they were getting married at a church in Croydon, England, 29 July 1944.

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USS INDIANA (BB-1) being fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania.

Note: beside her is USS NEW YORK (ARC-2).

Photographed on July 29, 1893.

NARA: 179036420, 179036442, 179036444, 179036446

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“USS Merrimack (AO-37) refueling an Essex class aircraft carrier and a Fletcher class destroyer, during operations off Japan, 10-29 July 1945. Photographed by Lieutenant Barrett Gallagher, USNR.”

(NHHC: 80-G-472616)

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Cleaning the 16″/45 barrels of battleship USS North Carolina, July 1945.

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USS NEVADA (BB-36) shortly after her launch on July 11, 1914. She was tied to a pier at Fore River for fitting out.

Note: her lack of belt armor and superstructure.

Photographed by Warren S. Parker, likely in late July to early August 1914.

Digital Commonwealth, Massachusetts Collections Online: LS1037

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Japanese Heavy Cruiser Tone (利根, Tone River) at Edajima. She was sunk at anchor in Kure harbor by US carrier aircraft on July 24th. Her hulk was scrapped between 1947 and 1948.

Photographed on July 29, 1945.

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Colorized by Irootoko Jr: link

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The launching of USS Edsall (DD-219), on July 29, 1920.

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Bow of USS NEW MEXICO (BB-40), flagship of the Pacific Fleet, in heavy seas, as seen from the bridge.

Photographed in 1919.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 45313

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Various photos of the crew recoaling USS TEXAS (BB-35).

Photographed sometime between 1914 and 1916.

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Crewmen of USS Texas (BB-35) with a shark they caught. Date unknown.

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Postcards of Battleship Texas in the 1950s.

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Visitors boarding USS CONSTITUTION during her New Orleans Harbor, Louisiana.

Photographed by Alexander Allison in 1931.

New Orleans Public Library: River90

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Nashi/JDS Wakaba (DE-261)

Tachibana-class destroyer Nashi was sunk on 28 July 1945 off Heigun Island in shallow waters by carrier aircraft of US Navy’s TF 38. After spending almost a decade underwater, she was refloated on 21 September 1954, and as the hull condition was deemed sufficiently good, repairs started a year later on 10 September 1955. All previous Japanese armaments were removed, and new American equipment were installed.

She was recommissioned on 31 May 1956, as JDS Wakaba (DE-261) and served in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. In 1960, the ship received an AN/SPS-8B radar for use as a radar trials ship, as seen in the last two photographs; the first Japanese ship to receive this type of radar. In 1968, the ship was used for experiments involving acoustic torpedoes.

She was the only ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy that became a part of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, and for a brief period of time the largest ship in the JMSDF.

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Japanese battleship IJN Haruna sits aground and abandoned in Kure Harbor  immediately after WW2.

The warship was sunk by American aircraft during an air raid against the harbor by Task Force 38 on 28 July 1945.

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“Third fleet planes attack the Japanese carrier Katsuragi (upper left) at Kure, 28 July 1945. In the center is the carrier Amagi, burned out as a result of raids four days before. Photo by (aircraft of) USS Iowa (BB-61).”

(NHHC: 80-G-344680)