Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Battleship New York at Full Speed -- August 9, 2017

Bay St Louis, MS Sea Coast Echo, 04-August-1917
USS New York (BB-34) had been commissioned on 15-May-1914.  She patrolled with the British Grand Fleet during World War One.  She served in the Atlantic and the Pacific during World War Two.  After the war, she was one of the ships used in the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.

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