USS Nevada BB-36 US Navy battleship damaged in 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

Blue photo of battleship during battle when she ran aground off Hospital Point.

First day DCP postmark on cover franked with a 49 cent Nevada 100th stamp

Cover postmarked at Las Vegas, NV on May 29, 2014.

Blue photo printed on cachet #7120 by Alvin Eckert, USCS #9964. 

Cover prepared on an Archive Quality Envelope without gum on flap.

USS Nevada: The lead vessel in her pre-WW I class of two battleships, she was

commissioned in 1912. She served in the British Grand Fleet between August 23

and December14, 1918, including one sweep of the North Sea. On December 7, 1941

she was moored singly off Ford Island and attempted to leave the harbor after being

struck by one enemy torpedo and two or three bombs. She was struck again and was

beached on Hospital Point. Gutted forward she lost 50 killed and 109 wounded.

Re-floated on February 12, 1942 she was repaired and served in both the Atlantic and

Pacific for the remainder of WW II. She earned seven Battle Stars and survived the

Bikini atomic bomb test of July 1946. Finally, she was sunk as a target off Hawaii on

July 31, 1948.  Seller has over 80 covers for the ships attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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