West Virginia (Armored cruiser)
Biography
USS West Virginia (ACR-5) was a United States Navy armored cruiser of the Pennsylvania class, launched in 1903 and commissioned in February 1905. Her early service included duty with the Pacific Squadron and Pacific Fleet along the west coast of the Americas. In November 1916 she was renamed Huntington (later designated CA-5) so that the name West Virginia could be assigned to a new battleship (BB-48). During World War I she served as a convoy escort in the Atlantic, and in 1919 she carried returning troops from Europe. She was decommissioned in 1920 and sold for scrap in 1930. Because of the renaming, this vessel is a separate entity from the battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48), which was sunk at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and later returned to service.
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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.