The US Navy Beached the 27,500-Ton Battleship USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor After 6 Bomb Hits and 1 Torpedo. She Was Repaired, Shelled Normandy on D-Day, Survived 2 Atomic Bombs at Bikini, Then Took 5 Days of Naval Gunfire Before 1 Aerial Torpedo Finally Sank Her on July 31, 1948.

The US Navy Beached the 27,500-Ton Battleship USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor After 6 Bomb Hits and 1 Torpedo. She Was Repaired, Shelled Normandy on D-Day, Survived 2 Atomic Bombs at Bikini, Then Took 5 Days of Naval Gunfire Before 1 Aerial Torpedo Finally Sank Her on July 31, 1948.

USS Nevada: She was the only American battleship to get underway on December 7 — a deck officer had ordered a second boiler lit that morning — and the first to return fire. Six bombs and a torpedo later she was run aground so she would not sink in the channel and seal the harbor. Repaired by May 1943, she shelled German positions at Azeville on D-Day, wore her gun barrels out at Toulon, and survived kamikazes off Okinawa. Her wreck was found in …