Nevada (Battleship)
Biography
USS Nevada (BB-36) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of her class, commissioned in March 1916. During World War I she served with American battleship forces based in Ireland, supporting convoy escort operations in 1918. On 7 December 1941 she was present at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, was the only battleship to get underway, and was struck by a torpedo and bombs. She was beached to keep her from blocking the channel, later refloated, and repaired at the Puget Sound Navy Yard before returning to service in late 1942. Her later wartime service included the Aleutian Islands campaign, the Normandy invasion and the landings in southern France in 1944, and the Pacific operations at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. After the war she was used as a target ship during the Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946, was decommissioned that August, and was sunk as a target off Hawaii in 1948.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
William C. Capshaw Papers
The William C. Capshaw Papers document the military service of William Cody Capshaw, a Marine Corps veteran from Oklahoma. He survived the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36) and was wounded at the Battle of Eniwetok. Materials include correspondence, photographs, notebooks, news clippings, and military and Veterans’ Administration records.