Colorado (Battleship)
Biography
USS Colorado (BB-45) was a United States Navy battleship, the lead ship of the Colorado class, commissioned in August 1923. She served in the Pacific Fleet during the interwar years. On 7 December 1941 she was undergoing overhaul at the Puget Sound Navy Yard and so was not at Pearl Harbor. During World War II she provided naval gunfire support for amphibious landings in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands (1943-1944), Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas (1944), Leyte and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines (1944-1945), and Okinawa (1945). She was damaged by shore battery fire at Tinian and by kamikaze attacks during the Philippines campaign. After the Japanese surrender she supported the occupation of Japan and then transported returning servicemen to the United States. She was decommissioned in January 1947 and sold for scrap in 1959.
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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.