USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) 1933 NAVY DAY Naval Cover w/Sc 730a x3

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Catalog Number

730a

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General Issue

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Condition: used / posted

Grade: F/VF (Fine/Very Fine)
Battleship USS PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) 1933 NAVY DAY Naval Cover w/Sc 730a x3USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of the Pennsylvania class of super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1910s. In 1918, she escorted President Woodrow Wilson to France to take part in WWI peace negotiations.During the 1920s and 1930s, Pennsylvania served as the flagship of first the Atlantic Fleet, and after it was merged with the Pacific Fleet in 1921, the Battle Fleet. For the majority of this period, the ship was stationed in California, based in San Pedro. Pennsylvania was occupied with a peacetime routine of training exercises, port visits, and foreign cruises. The ship was present in Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941; she was in drydock with a pair of destroyers when the Japanese launched their surprise attack on the port. She suffered relatively minor damage in the attack, being protected from torpedoes by the drydock. During the Battle of Okinawa, she was torpedoed by a Japanese torpedo bomber and badly damaged, forcing her to withdraw for repairs days before the end of the war.Allocated to the target fleet for the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946, Pennsylvania was repaired only enough to allow her to make the voyage to the test site, Bikini Atoll and was ultimately scuttled in deep water off the atoll in February 1948.

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