My dad was on the USS Nevada on December 7. He was severely wounded and was placed in a dead pile for three days until a Navy Chaplain came to give the sailors the last rites. Saw movement in his eyes and got him to a hospital. Wounded 27 times it took almost a year to put him back together.
@@gayprepperz6862 My father's friend was on the Nevada at the Pearl Harbor attack. Apparently he was one of the float plane pilots. I was told he transferred to a carrier and died later in the war, possibly during the air battles near the Marianas
I know. It was pride for her to get underway that was brave ..did he go back to the navy or had to be honor discharged??? He was a hero like all the other sailor and military personal that day
Thank you much for this presentation about USS Nevada (BB-36). My Grandfather, G.M. Chandler (RIP), began his 24-year U.S. Navy career as a Seaman on USS Nevada (BB-36) from 1922-1926. Also served on USS West Virginia (BB-48) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) between 1929 and 1940.
I just love the many points of defiancy this ship possesed. The band playing as the flag is posted, nuked, sink me if you can.... Just awesome how She gave herself to her counrty men for more training to keep the USA safe. 🇺🇸Tanker Tough!! 🇺🇸
In addition to the Nevada, many other noteworthy ships were in the target fleet at Operation Crossroads. My dad as a newly commissioned ensign was in the standoff fleet of ships monitoring the tests from a distance of 15 miles or so. My dad had served on the destroyer Hughes and was tasked with sailing the ship with a skeleton crew from the West Coast out to Bikini. He then readied the ship for the upcoming Able test (the first airburst detonation) then the Baker test(the 50ft. deep underwater detonation meant to simulate an atomic torpedo and it's effects on both surface ships and submarines too included in the target fleet.) I recently found the letter my dad had handwritten to my grandparents back in Philadelphia where my grandad was a Capt. and c.o. of the Philadelphia Naval yard. In it he detailed( as much as security protocols would allow) the detailed and painstaking preparations of the target fleet including the disposition of live ammo and naval shells in the ships magazines just as if they were ready for combat. This made for many anxious moments as the smoking, battle damaged, in some cases, on fire, not to mention irradiated ships were reboarded by the men assigned to inspect them after being thoroughly hosed and cooled down by salt water housings. I also have the Hughes final cruise book that detailed the effects of the two atomic shots. The little Hughes, who had served with distinction thru many campaigns since the onset of the conflict, a tough little iron hulled, single stacked design commissioned in 1938, she survived the off target airburst with not much significant damage, the second lagoon burst, which the scientists assured her inspecting crew that she would be vaporized as she was anchored at virtually ground zero, she was blown skyward 700 feet into the vertical column of seawater produced by the blast, somehow landed upright on her hull and incredibly remained not only afloat, but intact to the point that the skeleton crew made repairs to her that she was able to sail all the way back to Bremerton, Washington. She was eventually sunk as a target off the coast but not before the defiant little ship had survived multiple bomb and torpedo hits before she finnaly rolled over and went to Davy Jones locker. A remarkable story indeed.
One more note, the writer noted that most if not all of the inspecting crews died from horrible cancers. Not true. My dad's good friend and fellow officer Dell Cummings who were young childless junior officers onboard Hughes often joked around that they would probably never father children and if they did, they would probably walk backwards lol. I, myself, born in Jan. 61, my brother born the previous March of 60, and my older sister born in Jan. of 49, as well as The Cummings normal healthy kids, can vouch that happily that was not the case. My dad went on to serve a 30 year career from the Inchon landings during Korea where he had his first command, the U.S.S. Redhead, a pre-WW2 wooden hulled minesweeper and was decorated with 2 Bronze stars with V's for meritorious actions undertaken to protect a destroyer and fellow ships disabled by N. Korean shore batteries. He went on to become one of the foremost destroyer officers for his time becoming an instructor at The Naval War college in Newport, R.I., the ex. officer of U.S.S. Mahan, the c.o.'s of Cotton, John R.Craig, Henry B.Wilson, Yosemite, The Naval Destroyer School, Newport, R.I., squadron Comadore of Desron 25 out of Pearl from 69-71 and then on the staff of the late Sen. John McCain's father Admiral McCain, c.o. of Pacific fleet forces at Cinpacflt, Pearl as Operations officer Pacific fleet. In fact I personally got to meet the Admiral and his wife at a staff party my dad was giving at our quarters on Captains row in Makalapa the very night John was shot down over N.Vietnam and reported as missing. Not even given any report as of yet whether his son was dead, alive or captured, the Admiral and his wife were most gracious and courageous in their attendence with their entire staff. My dad retired from the Navy after that in 1972, he was assured a one star promotion if he stayed in one more year, he had assumed he would receive the selection(at that time out of some 600 Navy Captains, 40 were selected for flag rank each year as my dad well knew as he had served on that very board at BUPERS in 65 in D.C. ). And it is a well accepted Naval rule that if you were selected for flag rank and accepted the promotion, I seriously doubt one was ever turned down, and took the accompanying bump in pay both active duty and retired, that you would serve an additional 3 years till either selected for a second star or retired. The final spot they chose to give to Alan Shepherd, a next door neighbor to my folks at Brenton Village in Newport where they were colleagues and instructors at the War College as Commanders there, when now Adm. Shepherd took the promotion, bump in pay, and then several months later retired before fulfilling his 3 year assumed obligation. Years after my dad's death in 1988 after he had served as Executive Director of Southern Tennis in Atlanta, Ga., I had a retired Navy chief come in the bar I was bartending at in Alpine, WY. in 1998. We shortly started talking Navy talk( I was a brat, never served myself), when I mentioned that. He goes then you're gonna like this story. I was the winch operater on the Sea King helo off the carrier when we pulled Shepherd out of the drink after his space shot. Many years later after Adm.Shepherd had written his auto biography detailing his Naval career and astronaut selection at NASA, I stood in line for two hours at the Barnes and Nobles in Norfolk, Va. so he could sign a 6 by 9 Navy glossy I had brought for that purpose, when my turn FINNALY came I stepped up and introduced myself and asked him if he wouldn't mind signing the picture, he said sorry Chief but you're going to have to buy a copy of the book for that, I go know what you can do with that damn book sir? And tore up the picture and walked away lol. I said Chief, somewhere up there my old man is laughing his head off at that story and you ain't buying a single drink at this bar the rest of the afternoon lol.
My father served on USS BOTTINEAU during the Able and Baker shots. He lived to be 82, 7 children later and no radiation disease's. Died in his sleep. He was an Atomic Veteran.
there is a quote I remember of the Pearl Harbor attack, that after the Nevada ran itself aground on Hospital point. It was abandoned by the crew, the officers yelled at the crew that "The Nevada was not done and that she was still a good ship that needed help get back in the fight VS japan" The men ran back to their stations again after that pep talk I tried to find the exact quotes, it was in a book titled "day of infamy" a very good historical read!
The Arizona was hit by a torpedo, but was not "blown out of the water" by it. The Arizona was sunk when an armor piercing naval shell that had been converted into a bomb hit the foredeck between the #1 and 2 turrets, went through several decks and exploded, detonating the forward powder magazine.
How was the USS Arizona hit by a torpedo when the repair ship USS Vestal was alongside. How do you make a video like this with errors as bad as this. The USS Arizona has been extensively researched and no torpedo hit her the fatal damage was from a bomb.
@@glenn1035 Correct, the fatal damage was from the aerial bomb. A little reported fact is that the Captain of the VESTAL reported watching a torpedo bomber line up on his ship and drop their torpedo. He said he was sure it was going to hit the VESTAL as it disappeared from his view. The torpedo passed under the VESTAL's relatively more shallow draft and hit the Arizona in the bow area. Shortly after, the aerial bomb penetrated ARIZONA's forward magazine and devastated the bow section. The resulting aerial bomb damage effectively erased the evidence of the aerial torpedo hit. So it is possible. The VESTAL Captain's statements are in Admiral Nimitz's after-action report and Navy archives. ^v^
Sorry as a michigander i have to correct you the first U.S. dreadnought was the USS Michigan even though it was BB-27 not BB-26 like the South Carolina, Michigan was the first laid down and commisioned
My Uncle Doug Harr was at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 not sure what ship…his half brother my father James Harr Jr. was discharged In August 1941 from the USS Nevada and where he was stationed was heavily damaged and he would have died but as fate would have it-it’s the only reason I am here. My uncle Doug never spoke of what he experienced except maybe to his brothers and wife…Of course my father re-enlisted when the War was declared and spent much time in the South Pacific and would tell about it when I was growing up which left a huge impression on me…and I ended up doing mission work in the Philippines in 2018…
4:06 in and the USS South Carolina is being touted as the most advanced due to the centreline gun layout. She had reciprocating engines as opposed to the turbines in Drednaught. She was 3 knots slower. She had thinner armour. She had cage masts as oposed to tripods.
Excellent video. Glad I found this channel! I'm confused on one point. The USS Arizona was shielded by the USS Vestal. Are you saying the Arizona was sunk by a torpedo? It wasn't. It was sunk by a converted 16" armor piercing shell that pierced the forward deck and set off the magazines. Thought everyone who studied Pearl Harbor knew that.
CV-6 USS Enterprise (Yorktown class) aka Big E and The Grey Ghost is the "Unstoppable Force", she has been bombed on, strafed on and torpedoed and was involved in almost every major battle engagement of the Pacific War.
umm the Arizona was not struck by a torpedo due to the Vestal being moored outboard. She was hit by at least two AP bombs. One glanced off turret four and penetrated the aft decks. The next pierced between turrets one & two and ignited the black powder storage that in tern ignited the forward magazine that blew out most of the forward structure causing the mast, bridge and funnel to fall forward.
Due to its historic place in U.S. and naval history, this ship should have been preserved for posterity. It should be moored next to the Arizona in Pearl Harbor instead of at the bottom of the sea where it is. Too many surviving historic ships were scrapped or used as targets.
ARIZONA was hit by an armor-piercing bomb made from a modified obsolete Japanese 16.1" AP naval shell; NOT A TORPEDO, KLIKE OKLAHOMA WAS. Other ships were also hit by these bombs, but they suffered much less damage, the worst being knocking out unmanned heavy gun turrets by penetrating roof hits.
"Could be described as the most defiant strory in naval history" ,-)))). He probably never heared or HMS Warspite then who even broke lose on her way to the scaping . Or USS Hornet that just refused to sink despite hunderteds of 127mm rounds and nine torpedos (many duds as normal with early war torps in the USN) one top of the battle damake that forced her crew to abandom ship in the 1st place.
@@anniezhu9842 I agree on respect just not for throwing around superlatives when there is a loonoooong lists of ships that actually more deserving of that title.The old slow battle weagons did a nessesarry and often unsung duty akin of that of the corvettes of the atlantic convoys. Only a few had a true "moment of glory" like those at the Battle of Surigao Strait being in their orginal role fighting other battleships. Thats why i metioned warspite not only got she shot up by the whoule Highsea fleet at the lagest clash of battleships and lived to tell the tale she also faced much more modern BBs in the meds survived a Fritz X and broke free on the ways to scraping from tow. Was she the "most defying??" perhaps for a BB. There are so many other ships and people tend to forget that there were wars at sea before WW1 in times were geting from point a to point b as allready a chalenge on top of fighting (just say age of sails)
@@corneliuscrewe677 USS Enterprise was the only pre-war carrier that saw the War in the Pacific from Day-1 to VJ Day. All the others _ Yorktown _ Lexington _ Hornet _ Wasp were sunk & replaced by new ships with the same name. USS Saratoga was in the Atlantic & was sent to the FE only in 1945. .
And yet ONLY the Arizona has a Model kit Honoring it. I wish there was a 1/350 scale Nevada!! Damn! COME ON Revell or Lindburg or Banner or! SOMEONE!! I am a relative to GM3 George Leon Faddis who Died from Turret #2 and as Fate would have it, In Early 2001, arriving in Seattle for the Sea Fair, I MET His Chief!! Of all places on the Flight deck of the Stennis!! The ship I was serving on. He told me what happened but not before an "Oh Sh**!!" after reading my name tag. I told Him, sir, you're fine! I just would like to know what happened for the Family but Hold NOTHING against anyone. its History for a reason. After formalities by one of the ships companies Officers who was wondering what business I had with this Former Chief, He then told me, He instructed GM3 Faddis to go out from turret #2, instruct those assigned to the Battery to get ready to face down the Japanese! Seconds later after dogging (closing the Hatch) the Hatch (door) a Bomb hit the deck between turrets 1&2 Killing George and 2 or 3 others. The Officer's mouth dropped open realizing what was going on! I kept in contact with this man on and off 'til I heard from him no more. I felt when 9/11 hit, I was now holding the Torch. It blows me away the History one has they don't know about unless they dig for it. The Nevada BB-36 is one of those special ships I WISH They would have had vision to put Back to Pearl after the war to be on Eternal Watch over the Arizona as the Missouri is doing today. I also Honor the USS Thresher SSN-593. I feel these vessels were the epitome of the Best ships ever built, but were given a dirty deal. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I play 'Star Trek Online' and Fly Proudly, a Kelvin Timeline Intel Dreadnought the USS Nevada NX-733036. Another "toon/character" flies a Deep Space Science Vessel Refit the USS Thresher NX-100593. Its my way of Saluting those that went before me and to keep the Names Alive. -Fmr ABE2 (AW) Faddis OEF/OIF Ret.
I don’t understand how the narration can state that the USS Nevada played an important part in the last years of the war (WWI) when she didn’t arrive into United Kingdom waters until 1918, the war was practically over by then, in addition the Nevada didn’t fire a shot in anger and as for helping “pen in/up” the Kriegsmarine how was that achieved? when up until 1918 the Nevada stayed in United States 🇺🇸 territorial waters. The Washington naval treaty was well intentioned but ultimately a folly, the only real winners under the treaty were Japan 🇯🇵 and Germany,once they ignored the treaty and built vessels, including capital ships that left the rest of the worlds naval forces to play catch-up in both numbers and modernity of their fleets, add in the treaty of Versailles and its overly punitive conditions and there you had the perfect recipe for WWII, without those two treaties Germany, in particular Adolf Hitler wouldn’t have had the political ammunition to gain power, re-arm and start WWII (in my humble opinion that is). 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
well true, however the arrival of a squadrons of American BB in England did hurt the morale of the Kriegsmarine, leading to the mutiny etc. As far as a combat would have went, the USN squadron were superfluous, by that time the Royal Navy had fixed the worst of their battlecruiser issues and launched 3 more R class. The Brits even agreed mostly using the US ships for convoy escorts.
The USS Nevada is BB 36 not 38. If you wait a few seconds longer you'll even see it on the hull. At least get that right for the men that served aboard her and fought so valiantly.
sad to see then wasted, sunk. We should havevsaved them, at least recycled them. I understand that we no longer have the factories, nor know how anymore to manufacture thick armour plate as used on these great ships. It is a real shame to see them sunk, or sold for scrap to turn into toyotas.
Who checks your facts? The bomb that blew the Arizona right out of the water was dropped by a horizontal Japanese plane. My neighbor was above the harbor having a cup of coffee before going out to pick up the drunk Sailors, when he literally watched the great ship ( in his words) "watched it jump up and settle right down". He said "I knew we were in for shit then." It is well documented now that it was a hit between the fore turrets that went into the powder magazine where it detonated.
How much better do they look, without that antiquated cage mast garbage. Like, someone had actually discovered through research and battle damage reports etc, that no enemy had ever fired a shot that inflicted damage/hit on a mast on an American ship. Thus, a revelation debunking the bullshit idea behind why this stupid ugly cage mast design was ever implemented in the first place, so the ensuing expediency in ditching it for the shit idea it was happened. Pity it was 15yrs later than it should have been.
Wasn't the cage mast's a necessity for long range lookouts stationed up there way before radar was invented to spot the enemy first over the horizon and the lookouts on the bridge not to mention direct gunnery a more accurate fix on where to range the fire from their long range big guns?
U.S.S.NEVADA at Pearl Harber 1941 There Model of U.S.S.NEVADA Hanger Deck U.S.S INTREPID Museum New York Model Used Movie 🎥TORA,TORA,TORA, Nevada Sister U.S.S Texas Now Museum Texas
The USN Standard BBs were NOT comparable to the British or German BBs in WW1. Slower, smaller guns and inferior armour. The QEs and even the 'R' class were superior to the USN BBs. By Dec 1941, she (along with almost all USN BBs) were the slowest BBs in the world (max speed of 21kts). She was SO slow that she was only any good for shore bombardment. The USN standard BB were dinosaurs in the late 1930s/40s.
Arizona could not have been struck by torpedoes as she was inboard the U.S.S. Vestal.She was protected from torpedoes. Arizona was sunk by a bomb going thru her decks and detonating her fore magazine similar to the HMS Hood. I think the Navy should have saved Nevada. Her crews courage and determination getting her underway was a torch to the other sailors in the harbor that fateful day. Nevada showed American resolve and perseverance by putting up her fists to another tyrant threat We should have made a museum out of her. Great crew and great ship. I understand,the Navy can't save them all,but surely Nevada deserved it.
This guy got so much WRONG that he is an embarrassment to the subject he is attempting to explain. The USS Arizona was destroyed by a BOMB and NOT a torpedo. I hate it when the Brits get so much of our history so wrong! That's why I gave him a Dislike!
@@richardcline1337: They have actually proven that “two” torpedoes struck the Arizona, as well as bombs dropped from planes. A mini sub actually penetrated into the harbor and launched its torpedoes. It’s on the tube here, as well as articles that show their bubbles/wakes. I believe the photos came from enemy planes filming their attack. I find it hard to think that the Arizona had her powder stacked around the turret like the Hood did ( to increase rapidity in firing shells) as they were in port. Either way, it’s such a sad state of affairs. With this current administration I fear another sneak attack from ANYONE on the planet!!
Good to see this old dreadnought honored. However, did you miss her work at Iwo Jima and Okinawa? If the old ship could be anchored and still survive a shelling by the Iowa that shows just how tough she was after the rebuild.
I feel it's a real injustice to her that she was not the ship chosen for the Ceremony of the Japanese Capitulation, instead of USS Missouri. She would be a blazing symbol of American Resilience in the faces of those postwar Japanese like Saburo Sakai who didn't admit they first offenders, were soundly beaten.
A little-known fact is that the first American ship to be sunk by the Japanese was not the USS Arizona nor, indeed, any of the ships at Pearl Harbor, nor did it even belong to the Navy at all. It was the U.S. Army Transport Cynthia Olson, which was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-26 some 1,200 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. The Cynthia Olson managed to transmit a radio message that the ship was under attack by a Japanese submarine, and that message actually was received by the U.S. Navy. However, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor soon thereafter distracted everyone's attention away from the Cynthia Olson and no search was ever made for the ship or her crew. Although the Japanese submariners later claimed that the crew abandoned ship in one of the lifeboats, no trace of the 33 seamen and two Army personnel who were on board at the time were ever found. Even to this day the ship remains ignored as, whenever Pearl Harbor is mentioned, no mention is ever made of the fate of the Cynthia Olson and her crew. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Cynthia_Olson
At least the skipper of the Japanese submarine I-19 stopped and gave the survivors some food. Sadly, all 33 members of the crew were never heard from again according to the article.
@@richardcline1337 Oh wow... can't imagine...wow! Well my Dad had 3 confirmed kills as a Combat engineer Amphibious island Hopper WWII ❤️🇺🇸🛐🗽...he carried shrapnel in him for 55 years 10 days till he passed...
23:41 The Admiral's decision was a wise one. USS Nevada had a house-sized hole on her port and was taking in water. Even if she escaped to sea she would sink in deep water and never make it back. The Japanese were counting precisely on sinking her in the entrance to bottleneck the whole base.
It was BB36 sir. Only ship to get under way during the Pearl Harbor attack. It was a WW1 battleship. BTW, it had steam turbine engines, not recipricating engines... I had a 'first blood' uncle on the Nevada.(my mother's brother. George Maiella), the son of Italian immigrants. As an 80 yr. old man now, I still remember how proud my Uncle George was of his service in the US Navy and of 'his ship' the Nevada.
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My grandfather ed Walsh was a crewmember on the Nevada from Pearl Harbor,to the end of the war. Except a little bit a time on the Iowa when Nevada was being repaired. Radio operator he was also navy shore party. Landed at Utah beach the invasion of North Africa the invasion of southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to call in gun fire support. He had a chest of metals. I still have his ship book and coin. And carried his knife when I went to Afghanistan.
Holdup the Arizona wasn’t suck by a torpedo, it was a bomb that detonated the magazine in the front turret, and the ship literally blew up up lifting out of the water and almost ripping in half
When I was in Hawaii at Pearl harbor I went over to the Arizona memorial that was awesome sight to behold your eyes the USS Arizona was a beautiful ship
Silver State Drednaught. BB36, Nevada was the 36th state to join the Union. All or nothing armor, designed keel up as an oil burner, first BB with steam turbines, first with three guns in a turret. On and on, so many firsts. My favorite ship.I was born and raised in Nevada. You need to visit the Nevada's room at the state museum in Carson City.
@@ronanvave560 Well, Nevada itself is radioactive. We just have to cut the ship down enough to get under the highway bridges and give her a nice shower and put her in Lake Tahoe where we rebuild her.
USS Nevada, BB36, is the only ship to be at Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941 and Operation Overload, Jun 6,1944 and Operation Dragoon Aug 15, 1944. Operation Overload is the invasion of France in Normandy. Operation Dragoon is the invasion of southern France. The USS Nevada also survived two Atomic Bombs.
Kind of a neat little bit of history about the USS Nevada, during the Normandy invasion, the captain realized that the main guns couldn't elevate high enough to get the maximum range those guns were capable of so the captain ordered flooding on one side of the ship (the side farthest from France) and he was able to get the necessary gun elevation he was looking for.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Most people don’t believe that a ship can be “alive” but she shouldn’t have been treated the way she was after her long honorable and distinguished service. She deserved better than to be sunk by her own countrymen. Very sad to think that she might have been wondering what she did wrong….
Used in operation Crossroads then towed back to Hawaii. Sever radioactivity caused the US Navy to tow it back out to sea and sink it with some difficulty. Rediscovered off the Hawaiian islands in May 2020. Almost 2 years ago. That wasn't so hard. Been in the history books for over 60 years except for the rediscovery.
Simple past verb of “to sink” is “sank”. Sunk requires a helping verb such as “have “ or “has”. Your channel is quality enough to use good English. Thanks
David, I haven’t the foggiest idea, but is it possible British grammar rules are different from American grammar rules? I only ask because they do spell a few words differently than Americans do, so I’m ASSuming that the same might be true with their grammar. That is, of course, unless you’re British, in which case my entire supposition is entirely invalid.
I'm a huge fan of your channel... I love war history, especially those stories about ships...your narration and pictures are fantastic... Keep up the great work!
You were wrong about the torpedo hitting the Arizona. A torpedo did not cause the explosion. It was a modified bomb using the shells from the Japanese battleship Nagato. The proof is in the time of the explosion. It happened after the torpedo planes hit and during the horizontal bombers. One thing that stands out to me is that the Nevada survived two atomic bombs including being a target for one. The Nagato sunk due to the under water explosion. I'd like to do something done on the USS Arkansas and its use in the second atomic bomb.
I was at a lunch in the 90,s the guy was a navy guy who was wounded at Iwo Jima, he had a silver sugar bowl and creamer from the officers mess that a diver had took from the ship when he was doing salvage diving, the guy gave it to the sailor who used it . He died 20 years ago and I don't know what happened to the silver set. They had the Nevada,s name ingraved on them.
