Free online book audio download Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada by Stephen M. Younger

Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada by Stephen M. Younger

Free online book audio download Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada by Stephen M. Younger

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  • Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada
  • Stephen M. Younger
  • Page: 320
  • Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  • ISBN: 9781682472897
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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Free online book audio download Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada by Stephen M. Younger

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Silver State Dreadnought: The Remarkable Story of Battleship Nevada by Stephen M. Younger USS Nevada (BB-36) was an extraordinary ship, the first modern American warship that was designed to be the equal of anything afloat. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors ruled most of the world. When, after five days of target practice, she finally slipped beneath the waves in 1948, America was the undisputed global superpower. She saw it all. Nevada was revolutionary for her time, the first “superdreadnought,” the first U.S. warship to be oil fired, the first to have a triple-gun main turret, the first to have all-or-nothing armor. In the First World War, she was based in Queenstown, Ireland as protection for American convoys bringing troops to Europe. She survived the naval reduction treaties of the 1920s and was rebuilt in 1928 with the latest in naval technology. She was the only battleship to get underway at Pearl Harbor, although the damage she took from Japanese bombs and torpedoes caused her to sink in shallow water later that day. Raised and repaired, she did convoy duty in the North Atlantic before joining the invasion fleet at D-Day and in the invasion of Southern France. Shifting to the Pacific, she provided bombardment support at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The end of the war saw her outgunned and outmoded, but her contributions were not over. In 1946, Nevada survived not one but two atomic tests, the second of which left her too radioactive for scrapping. Instead, she was towed off the coast of Oahu and used for target practice. After five days of pounding by everything the Navy could throw at her, she was dispatched by a torpedo. She died a warrior’s death.
Silver State Dreadnought is the story of a remarkable ship, but it is also the story of the remarkable men who sailed in her. Nevada’s first captain, William S. Sims, brought his unique style of leadership to America’s premiere battleship and set the tone for what became known as the “Cheer Up Ship.” As she aged, she gained the affectionate name “The Old Maru,” beloved by all who shipped in her. In the Pacific, Captain “Pop” Grosskoff made her “the sweetheart of the Marines” by taking her close to shore to provide pinpoint bombardment support for difficult invasions. She was loved by her crews and, as no less than Admiral Nimitz surmised, she loved and protected the men who served on her.

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