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Item Description
Vintage U.S.S. North Carolina BB-55 Color Photo Postcard
Battleship
She was launched on 13 June 1940 and was commissioned in New York City on 9 April 1941
She was the first
new-construction U.S. battleship to enter service during World War II,
participating in every major naval offensive in the Pacific theater to
become the most decorated U.S. battleship of the war with 15 battle
stars
She was the first new battleship
to arrive in the Pacific since the beginning of the war, clearing the
Panama Canal on 10 June, four days after the end of the Battle of Midway
North Carolina joined the long
island-hopping campaign against the Japanese by assisting in the landing
of Marines on Guadalcanal and Tulagi 7 August 1942, beginning the
Guadalcanal campaign
North Carolina sent both sailors
and members of her Marine Detachment ashore for preliminary occupation
duty in Japan immediately at the close of the war, and patrolled off the
coast until anchoring in Tokyo Bay on 5 September to re-embark her men
After inactivation, she was
decommissioned at New York on 27 June 1947. Stricken from the Naval
Vessel Register on 1 June 1960, North Carolina was transferred to the
people of North Carolina on 6 September 1961. She was purchased from the
U.S. Navy for $330,000 raised by the efforts of North Carolina school
children who saved their spare change and lunch money for the "Save Our
Ship" (SOS) campaign
On 29 April 1962, she was
dedicated at Wilmington, North Carolina as a memorial to North
Carolinians of all services killed in World War II and may be visited to
this day
This battleship was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986
Used vintage color photo postcard
Small soft upper corner
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