USS Pennsylvania BB 38 - "The Flagship of the Fleet"

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@keithbusick6859 5 ай бұрын

What a sad end to such a majestic ship what impressed me was the amount of anti aircraft batteries she had on board once again a well done video that I enjoy very much

@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey 5 ай бұрын

A better fate than her sister Arizona got.

@keithdmaust1854 5 ай бұрын

Well-produced and very informative video that was enjoyable to watch. Thanks for your creative work of excellence!

@TheValorVault 5 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

@Slaktrax 2 ай бұрын

These are good interesting stories, please continue and don't stop! Thank you. 🙂

@michaeldantoni4292 5 ай бұрын

My dad served on her during the last couple years of the war. He was in a Marine division onboard.

@RobertDukett 5 ай бұрын

Please accept my whole hearted thank you for your father's service to his country.

@TheRealBirdmann 2 ай бұрын

Can it

@Christopher-m6i 5 ай бұрын

My grandfather served on her as a gunners mate during WW-1. He reenlisted with his son,( my dad), after Pearl Harbor. They both served on destroyers until the end of the war

@vladimirchernov5866 4 ай бұрын

The Penn was the reason my family moved from NYC to California. He served 34 years, several tours on the penn

@KahluaFJ 5 ай бұрын

Great visuals, A lot of pictures and diagrams I have not seen before!

@73Trident 5 ай бұрын

Great episode Thanks.

@michaels.5878 21 күн бұрын

Dad was a boatswain's mate from 1943-45.

@mked13 5 ай бұрын

You said, "1.1 millimeter quad mounts." I believe you meant to say, "1.1 inch quad mounts." Otherwise know as "Chicago Pianos."

@TheValorVault 5 ай бұрын

you are correct

@stevenhj3124 5 ай бұрын

As we said in the Navy, and I say it to the crew and to the USS Pennsylvania's history: Well done. ☮

@enscroggs 5 ай бұрын

I wonder if the screw Pennsylvania lost while en route to Bremerton could be located and recovered. Since it is solid bronze the prop could be intact. On display ashore, it would make a fine memorial to that ship and the other "standard battleships" that gave such good service to the United States and the Allies by providing gunfire support to ground forces and escorting convoys through dangerous waters. They didn't get much glory after Pearl Harbor, but we could not have won the war in 1945 without them and the millions who survived that horror might have died young in 1946.

@DK-gy7ll 5 ай бұрын

That would be far harder than finding a needle in a haystack. A better option would be to find the ship's actual resting place.

@robertyoung3992 5 ай бұрын

Her sister ship USS Arizona (BB-39) was destroyed at Pearl Harbor

@briantaylor6562 5 ай бұрын

My brother's first ship was the USS Richond K Turner, a missile crusier. Sadly, its now a reef off the coast of Florida.

@DBAllen 4 ай бұрын

Thank Obama for that.

@jamesgascoyne.7494 21 күн бұрын

Sad ending to a fine ship. Still survived both A bombs though. Good on her. Just wish she'd not been contaminated. 😢

@KungFuFighter-h3k 4 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks.

@powellmountainmike8853 3 ай бұрын

I have always thought it a terrible shame that the state of Pennsylvania didn't request the Uss Pennsylvania as a war memorial ship before she could be used in the atomic bomb testing. She would be the only survivor of the U.S. "standard battleships" if she were around as a museum and war memorial today, as Texas is the only "Dreadnougt type" left.

@gjurczyc 5 ай бұрын

One ship that should have been saved to be a museum ship, since she was the Arizona's sister.

@DBAllen 4 ай бұрын

She didn't look like the Arizona when she was decommissioned, and she was radiologically hot.

@lawrencelewis2592 3 ай бұрын

And how did the crew that boarded the ship after the first atomic test make out? Poor bastards.

@francisbusa1074 5 ай бұрын

Relegated, not regulated.

@simonjester0074 5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍🌊🌊🌊🌊

@pierredecine1936 2 ай бұрын

Phat Girl !

@dougmoore4326 5 ай бұрын

1.1 millimeter anti aircraft quad mounts? Really? Could be perfect content but they have an ai bot voice it

@dougmoore4326 5 ай бұрын

Relegated , not regulated… damn ai bots don’t know proper use of English

@KevenPrice-i6k 4 ай бұрын

Collin Route

@lennyhendricks4628 5 ай бұрын

There are WWII submarines that carry 24 torpedoes. You're telling me a battleship could only carry 24 torpedoes?

@robertyoung3992 5 ай бұрын

Battleships carried zero torpedoes

@lennyhendricks4628 5 ай бұрын

@@robertyoung3992 - you may be right but the video says at 2:10 that she had two 21" underwater torpedo tubes and carried 24 torpedoes -- and it shows pics of them at 2:14.

@jeboblak5829 3 ай бұрын

They could have carried more than 24, but 24 is what they carried. Additional Torps mean fewer shells. Battleship torpedoes was a bad idea that was largely eliminated in the inter-war period. .