{"id":100184,"date":"2020-05-27T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100184"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T15:54:50","slug":"r-i-p-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100184","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Old Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

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USS Nevada<\/em> has been found at 15,000 feet near Bikini Atoll.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/undersea-explorers-find-wreck-of-uss-nevada-the-ship-that-almost-escaped-pearl-harbor\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: The stricken battleship loomed out of the smoke and wreckage that morning, hurrying past sunken and burning ships, straining to get out of Pearl Harbor and into the open sea.<\/p>\n

Past the doomed USS Arizona<\/em>, which exploded in a fireball, the old ship rushed. She had a hole the size of a house in her hull, and her captain was ashore. The frantic crew had chopped the mooring ropes and got the ship underway as Japanese planes swarmed overhead.<\/p>\n

The USS Nevada<\/em> raced to escape the unfolding catastrophe of Dec. 7, 1941. \u201cOut of this pall came a sight so incredible that its viewers could not have been more dumbfounded had it been the legendary Flying Dutchman,\u201d historian Gordon W. Prange wrote.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, undersea explorers announced they had found the wreck of the famous Nevada<\/em>. She had failed to make good her escape at Pearl Harbor, but she had survived, was repaired and returned to sea to serve out World War II.<\/p>\n

Nevada<\/em> was found in 15,000 feet of water, purposely sunk by the Navy in 1948 after a career that spanned three decades of service, from World War I to the atomic bomb. – article<\/p>\n

Once repaired and underway again, Nevada<\/em> participated in the D-Day operations off the coast of Normandy, with those big guns of hers lobbing shells at the enemy. After that, she participated in the Pacific theater at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After the war, Nevada<\/em> was decommissioned, painted orange and anchored at the nuclear test site at the Bikini atoll. She still wouldn’t sink.<\/p>\n

In fact, Nevada<\/em> stubbornly refused to give up her place on the surface until the Navy decided to use artillery, explosives and finally, an aerial torpedo. Now she rests in peace amongst the critters of the deep at 15,000 feet.<\/p>\n

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USS Nevada has been found at 15,000 feet near Bikini Atoll. https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/undersea-explorers-find-wreck-of-uss-nevada-the-ship-that-almost-escaped-pearl-harbor\/ From the article: The … R.I.P., Old Girl<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":77864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,119,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-navy","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100211,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100184\/revisions\/100211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}