USS Nevada Discovery (BB-36) Discovery
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- SEARCH Inc. and Ocean Infinity have discovered the USS Nevada (BB-36) 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor at a depth of over 15,400 feet. Latest footage showing the discovery.
My grandfather, Thomas "Lonz" Metzger served on the Nevada from the post-Pearl Harbor refit through to the end. The battleship escorted convoys in the Atlantic when the German raiders were still a threat, participated in the D-Day landings, participated in the Southern France landings in the Mediterranean, went back over to the Pacific where during another refit was outfitted with several guns salvaged from the USS Arizona and carried those guns to Iwo Jima and Okinawa and to the coast of Japan where she patrolled offshore on VJ Day. It is truly a shame what they did to such a historic and battle tested ship but it took two atomic bombs couldn't sink her, several days of surface gunnery by the USS Iowa and other ships couldn't sink her, finally she went down to a torpedo hit and even then sits upright defiantly on the ocean floor as if saying I'm still ready to fight. Many thanks to the ones that found her final resting place.
What is really sad to me is that we (U.S. Navy and Congress) never bothered to seriously consider saving arguably the most famous of all the Pearl Harbor battleships, the only one that got up enough steam to make a “run for it” in the open ocean. Plus, her glorious history as an important shore bombardment vessel on D-Day, and also later on in a similar roll in the Pacific. That is what is extremely sad and unfortunate for post-World War generations.
what's more Robert, she wasn't invited to the signing of the Surrender of Japan, an insult to the ship and crew, she is at the bottom, saved from the scrappers at least.
I didnt know it was one of the most famous.. My grandpa served on the Nevada BB36 and has a card "operation crossroads" Stamped May 25 1946 and I heard it got decomissioned a few months after and was used for bomb testing.. My grandpa and his crew maybe were the last ones aboard the BB36 as an active crew. i talked to my gpa a lot but he has since passed in 2011 but I have tons of questions I would like to ask him.. I will never know his recollection of the Nevada but I did take time to talk to him and he told me old stories when I worked at Mayflower moving company and how back in the day they used to steal padded blankets outta trucks and go to the beach and lay on em etc.. also gas tickets when he said on of his friends snitched em out... haha
Thats the us goverment , i bet the japanise would have loved to get the Nagato back after some generations or the germans with the Prinz Eugen .
You literally have eight preserved battleships in the us, not to mention a cruiser, destroyers, aircraft carriers submarines, the constitution and a whole host of submarines, Transport ships, freighters, coast guard cutters and more!
@@ntomenicgiorgo3598 why not a few more museum ships?
Its sad to see it in sucha bad shape. The battleship was beautiful.
Lovely ship, BUT,she was never lost.
Finally they found her.
Beautiful battle ship
Can you guys please release the music score that was created for your older D-day footage video???
Sad stuff
If Nevada wasn't sunk in battle and sunk as a target instead, then does that mean her resting place is not considered a war grave? If not then I would like to try to salvage that upside down tank.
quite an interesting idea, especially as it was an early T26 mark of tank, but it's three miles down on the seabed. You will also be up against the Nuclear energy commission, who would argue that it is still a radioactive threat. Plus the fact that the turret and upper hull forward of the engine decks was lost during the sinkex, the steel cables holding the tank to the decks were damaged during the shelling and parted as the ship sank.
@@dustydave2819 she isnt radioactive anymore, especially considering the other victims of OP Crossroads aka Nagato, Saratoga or Eugen have beem declared safe to dive since the 70s
Estos acorazados no sirven para ejercitos pobres?.
Why the tank?
git FOAD Iirc it was put on the deck for Crossroads
@@sirboomsalot4902 - 'Tanks'. Point was, when you're chucking them in the sea, rather than using, selling, scrapping, for what u assume is no purpose whatsoever, u gotta lotta tanks spare.
git FOAD It wasn’t really for no reason, they were testing nukes on it
Probably to see if it could survive the nuke and if it could protect those inside from radiation. Wouldn't surprise me if animals where inside the tank for the testing.
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