#USS Tennessee (BB-43)

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USS Tennessee (BB-43) in dry-dock at the Bremerton Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington.

Date: September 12, 1928.

National Museum of the U.S. Navy: 80-CF-14-2054-9

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USS Tennessee (BB-43) underway in Puget Sound, Washington, on 12 May 1943, after modernization.

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Superb overhead view of USS Tennessee (BB-43) providing fire support off Okinawa, 1 April 1945

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Aerial view of the US Navy battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43), 12 May 1943.

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(4/1/1945) [BB-43 USS TENNESSEE, Bombarding Okinawa with her 14"/50 main battery guns, as LVTs in the foreground carry troops to the invasion beaches USN  Image

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A Group of 360 Japanese Warplanes Struck the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in a Brutal Attack. The Surprise Assault Caused a Significant Blow Against the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pulled the United States Irreversibly Into World War II. December 7, 1941.

Image: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia (BB-48), which is burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is inboard. (Public Domain). On this day in history, at 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, a Japanese dive bomber…

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Apr 30 1919 “Photograph shows a crowd and the launching platform near the battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43), which was launched on April 30, 1919 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”  

 Library of Congress Control Number2014708886

Library of Congress Control Number2014708887

Library of Congress Control Number2014708885

Library of Congress Control Number2014708884

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USS Tennessee

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Vought VE-9H floatplane and Vought OU-1 from USS MILWAUKEE (CL-5) is a Vought VE-9H floatplane. The aircraft from USS TENNESSEE (BB-43) is a Vought OU-1 1920s

Via Flickr

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Aerial view of Los Angeles Harbor from the sea showing the breakwater, USS CALIFORNIA (BB-44), USS TENNESSEE (BB-43) and the docks. View also shows San Pedro in the distance giving a clear outline of Palos Verde Hills, and showing the geographical situation of the port as a whole.

Date: 1920s or 1930s

Digital collection of Los Angeles Public Library: 00033139

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USS Tennessee (BB-43) after her post-Pearl Harbor rebuild. Puget Sound, May 8th 1943

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USS Tennessee (BB-43) after the completion of her rebuild, 12 May 1943. The massive increase in her anti-aircraft armament caused her crew compliment to effectively double from 1,083 to 2,243.

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Today we remember Pearl Harbor: "December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed. Congress designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in August 1994. During the attack, which was launched from aircraft carriers, nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, were damaged or destroyed, as well as more than 300 aircraft. The official American death toll was 2,403, according to the Pearl Harbor Visitors Bureau, including 2,008 Navy personnel, 109 Marines, 218 Army service members and 68 civilians. Of the dead, 1,177 were from the USS Arizona, the wreckage of which now serves as the main memorial to the incident. Fifty-five Japanese soldiers also were killed. Image: A small boat rescues a seaman from the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48), which is burning in the foreground. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is visible behind West Virginia. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia commons. #otd #onthisday #navalhistory #shiphistory #wwii https://www.instagram.com/p/CIgq0JhHzgR/?igshid=4wkep5dxgc6x

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Aerial view of the US Navy battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43), 12 May 1943.

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Nov 20 1916 in WWI

On May 25 1916 Armored Cruiser No. 10 aka USS Tennessee was renamed USS Memphis, so that the name "Tennessee" could be reassigned to the new battleship Tennessee (BB-43)

On Aug 29 1916 a monster wave hit the USS Memphis and drove it onto the rocks of the harbor of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.

Memphis's casualties numbered 43 men dead or missing – 10 of them washed overboard by the waves or killed by steam as the ship's powerplant broke up, another 25 lost as they returned from shore leave in the ship's motor launch and were caught in the harbor by the huge breakers, and eight more lost in three boats wrecked after dark as they attempted to reach shore – and 204 badly injured. Due to their heroic actions during this incident, Chief Machinist's Mate George William Rud, Lieutenant Claud Ashton Jones, and Machinist Charles H. Willey were awarded the Medal of Honor.

The ship was a total write off and was abandoned where she lay. 

Evening Public Ledger. November 20 1916