1.4K views · 32 reactions | The USS Pennsylvania served in both World Wars. The battleship, in dry dock at Pearl Harbor during the attack on Dec. 7, 1941, returned fire against the attacking Japanese planes & bombers. The USS Pennsylvania escaped significant damage & returned to sea in the Pacific Theater. #PAatWar U.S. Navy ➡️ https://phmc.info/2wJ8TCl | Pennsylvania Trails of History | Facebook

The battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was a large, powerful American battleship of the Pennsylvania-class featuring twelve 14-inch guns in four triple turrets, two torpedo tubes, and an "all-or-nothing" armor scheme with a 13.5-inch belt. Powered by four Curtis steam turbines and twelve boilers, it could reach 21 knots and had a length of 608 feet. The ship was commissioned in 1916, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and was later sunk as a target in the 1946 atomic tests at Bikini A

The battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was torpedoed by a Japanese aircraft off Okinawa on August 12, 1945, while anchored in Buckner Bay, marking it the last major U.S. warship hit in WWII; the torpedo caused a massive hole in the stern but expert damage control kept her afloat, though she was later deemed uneconomical to fully repair and ultimately sunk as a target ship in 1948. #reel #reels #reelsinstagram #reelitfeelit #reelkarofeelkaro #reelsvideo #video #trending #trendingreels #trendingv

USS Pennsylvania Torpedoed off Okinawa