USS Pennsylvania (BB 38)

USS Pennsylvania as modified during the war.

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Battleship
Class	Pennsylvania
Pennant	BB 38
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	27 Oct 1913
Launched	16 Mar 1915
Commissioned	12 Jun 1916
End service	29 Aug 1946
History	USS Pennsylvania (Capt. C.M. Cooke, Jr.) was at Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, she was in dry dock but the Japanese failed to torpedo the dry dock and destroy the ship. She was damaged by lighter ordnance but not seriously though. 15 killed, 14 missing and 32 wounded in action. On 20 December she sailed for San Francisco for repairs, lasting until 30 March 1942. She saw extensive service in the Pacific in the war, including shore bombardments. Used as a target during Operation Crossroads atom bomb tests in June/July 1946 but survived. Decommissioned 29 August 1946 but retained at Kwajalein for examination and for use as an experimental and target ship. Sunk as a target off Kwajalein on 10 February 1948. Stricken on 19 February 1948.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Capt. Elwin Fisher Cutts, USN	19 Jun 1939	27 Feb 1941
2	Capt. Charles Maynard Cooke, Jr., USN	27 Feb 1941	3 Apr 1942
3	Capt. Thomas Starr King, 2nd, USN	10 Apr 1942	8 Feb 1943
4	Capt. William Anderson Corn, USN	8 Feb 1943	23 Apr 1944
5	Capt. Charles Franklin Martin, USN	23 Apr 1944	5 Jun 1945
6	T/Capt. William Moultrie Moses, USN	5 Jun 1945	5 Nov 1945
7	T/Cdr. William Metcalfe Kaufman, USN	5 Nov 1945	23 Jan 1946
8	T/Capt. Carl Hilton Bushnell, USN	23 Jan 1946	1 Jun 1946

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