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Photo of the USS New York participating in the battle of Iwo Jima

Yard-Built Battleship Pounds Iwo Jima

Our Navy Yard was there at Iwo!  Hammering away at enemy shore batteries

during the invasion of Iwo Jima was the Yard-built USS New York, com-

missioned here on April 15, 1914. One of the oldest American battleship, the

New York also acted as a mercy ship on D-Day.  Below, Navy men wounded 

during the invasion are lowered aboard for medical aid.  Three whose lives could

not be saved are buried with full military honors in the picture at the bottom.

[ ] avy’s Battlewagon New York Comes Back Home From 78 – Day Bombardment

[ ]art of the crew of the U. S. Navy battleship New York is shown above line-

[ ] her huge, 14-inch guns as she arrives in San Pedro, Cal., safely returned to

[ ] home port from the wars, during which she underwent 78 days of continuous

[ ] bardment during the Okinawa campaign, during which she fired 11,000

Rounds from her main and secondary batteries.  It was the salvos from these  

Guns which blasted ammunition dumps at Iwo Jima, and leveled the most formid-

able shore batteries at Safi, in the North African campaign.  The veteran bat-

tlewagon brought back 826 passengers for discharge.

ENTERTAINED- Dinah Shore, foregound, greets with song crewmen of the U.S.S. New

York and some of the 828 Navy men battleship brought home for discharged yesterday.

New York is almost a legend. She came in for new guns after

establishing a flock of records at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.  At

Okinawa, for instance, the New  York participated in the engage-

ment for 78 days, and spent 76 days of active firing, the longest

time any ship has been in a single engagement.  Her batteries

fired more than 46,000 rounds of ammunition, 5000 of them boom-

ing from her main 14-inch guns and 11,000 from secondary guns.

     Her three spotting planes flew 51,000 miles, she outran a tor-

pedo and through all of the Okinawa campaign she got only a

Scratch when a kamikaze plane sheared a spare plane off a cata-

pult between the main mast and the foremast, left its wings

aboard and dropped into the sea. Two men were injured slightly

but were back on duty the next day.

               Alerted 200 Times

     She was alerted more than 200 times during the Okinawa battle

and the kamikaze plane damage, while slight, was the only time she

was hit by anything in her long and illustrious career in two wars.

     Early in the war she slugged it out with Batterie Railluse, strongest

Coastal defense on North Africa at Safi Harbor, and knocked out the

Big guns of the fort there without receiving a scratch.  She has been

The target of Zeppelin bombs, of shore batteries, of dive bombers

And Kamikaze planes and has carried a charmed life.

               Lesser Records

     Among other things less important maybe, she has schooled more

Flag officers of the Navy than any other ship afloat and is the first

Battleship in 26 years to dock at a Los Angeles Harbor wharf.  Usually

Battleships drop anchor in the Outer Harbor.  Only the old Oregon

Ever preceded the New York to a Los Angeles Harbor deck and that

Was many years ago.

     Officers and men of the New York expect a brief rest here, then

they expect to go back to sea again.  The New York is schedule for

decommissioning in the near future.  Only the battleship Texas and

Arkansas are older than the New York and are yet in service 

The Battleship New York Plays Host to School Children

Seaman Second Class Norman Hann, of Lynn, Mass., demonstrating the use of a signal light to school children who visited the New York at the foot of Jane Street yesterday.