OUR CARD/PHOTO # 166. CARD/PHOTO RATING: EXTRA FINE+ - Near Mint. Not postally used. This is a WWI US Navy real photo postcard or RPPC of the Battleship USS Nevada BB-36 taken by New York City NYC Photographer Nathan Moser , a contemporary and sometimes business partner of famed Official US Navy Official Photographer Enrique Muller, Jr. Postcard is in SUPERB all around CONDITION with virtually no discernible wear (see images) to corner points or edges, except, the tiniest (approx. 1/32" or less) point tip crimp right at/on the actual tip pf the front lower left corner point. ALL corner CORNER POINTS and CARD EDGES are absolutely FIRM. Card back (see images) is EXTRA CLEAN and and all printed text and the stamp box are EXTRA SHARP.
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BATTLESHIP USS NEVADA SHIP”S HISTORY, WWI & WWII SERVICE: The second Nevada (BB-36) was laid down 4 November l912 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 11 July 1914; sponsored by Miss Eleanor Anne Seibert, niece of Governor Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada and descendant of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert; and commissioned 11 March 1916, Capt. William B. Sims in command. /// Nevada joined the Atlantic Fleet at Newport 26 May 1916 and operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean until World War I. After training gunners out of Norfolk, she sailed l3 August 1918 to serve with the British Grand Fleet, arriving Bantry Bay, Ireland 23 August. she made a sweep through the North Sea and escorted transport George Washington, President Woodrow Wilson embarked, during the last day of her passage into Brest, France, before sailing for home 14 December. /// Nevada served in both Atlantic and Pacific Fleets in the period between the wars. In September 1922 she represented the United States in Rio de Janeiro for the Centennial of Brazilian Independence. From July to September 1926, she participated in t he U.S. Fleet's goodwill cruise to Australia and New Zealand, which demonstrated to our friends down under, and to the Japanese, our ability to make a self-supported cruise to a distance equal to that to Japan. Modernized at Norfolk Naval Shipyard between August 1927 and January 1930, Nevada served in the Pacific Fleet for the next decade. /// On 7 December 1941, Nevada was moored singly off Ford Island, and had a freedom of maneuver denied the other 8 battleships present during the attack. As her gunners opened fire and her engineers got up steam, she was struck by one torpedo and two, possibly three, bombs from the Japanese attackers, but was able to get underway. While attempting to leave harbor she was struck again. Fearing she might sink in the channel, blocking it, she was beached at Hospital Point. Gutted forward, she lost 60 killed and 109 wounded. /// Refloated 12 February 1942, Nevada repaired at Pearl Harbor and Puget Sound Navy Yard, then sailed for Alaska where she provided fire support for the capture of Attu 11 to 18 May. In June she sailed for further modernization at Norfolk Navy Yard, and in April 1944 reached British waters to prepare for the Normandy Invasion. In action from 6 to 17 June, and again 25 June, her mighty guns pounded not only permanent shore defenses on the Cherbourg Peninsula, but ranged as far as 17 miles inland, break ing up German concentrations and counterattacks. Shore batteries straddled her 27 times, but failed to diminish her accurate fire. /// Between 15 August and 25 September, Nevada fired in the invasion of Southern France, dueling at Toulon with shore batteries of 13.4-inch guns taken from French battleships scuttled early in the war. Her gun barrels were relined at New York, and she sailed for the Pacific, arriving off Iwo Jima 16 February 1945 to give marines invading and fighting ashore her massive gunfire support through 7 March. /// On 24 March, Nevada massed off Okinawa with the mightiest naval force ever seen in the Pacific, as pre-invasion bombardment began. She pounded Japanese airfields shore defenses, supply dumps, and troop concentrations through the crucial operation, although 11 men were killed and a main battery turret damaged when she was struck by a suicide plane 27 March. Another 2 men were lost to fire from a shore battery 5 April. Serving off Okinawa until 30 June, from 10 July to 7 August she ranged with the 3r d Fleet which not only bombed the Japanese home islands, but came within range for Nevada's guns during the closing days of the war. /// Returning to Pearl Harbor after a brief occupation duty in Tokyo Bay, Nevada was surveyed and assigned as a target ship for the Bikini atomic experiments. The tough old veteran survived the atom-bomb test of July 1946, returned to Pearl Harbor to decommission 29 August, and was sunk by gunfire and aerial torpedoes off Hawaii 31 July 1948. /// Nevada received 7 battle stars for World War II service.
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The US Navy postcard , real photo , rppc , print , stereoview or lithograph above is one of at least one hundred fifty (150) Spanish American War , Great White Fleet , pre-WWI , WWI and WWII , postcards, vintage real photograph and printed photographic images that we presently have listed. They include "official" US Navy postcards , real photos and stereoviews published by Enrique Muller (aka E. Muller, Jr.), perhaps the most prolific and noted Official U.S. Navy Photographer of his era (late 1890's up to the 1920's); and many other noted naval photographers of that era. There are also a number of other items rating at least VF/XF, including some very scarce hand tinted and printed photographic images of Navy battleships , cruisers , shipboard sailors life themes and Patriotic Postcards ; also, a number of USMC Marine Corps postcard , stereoview and or real photo items, and finally, other great USN “vintage stuff!”
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SHIPPING COST & METHODS AVAILABLE: Shipping in the USA will be $1.95 via 1st class mail. Your item will be wrapped in a polyethylene holder, well-protected in a cardboard sleeve and wrapped in “bubble wrap”; at YOUR OPTION we can ship via USPS "Priority Mail" at a cost of $4.95 (up to 1 pound); above 1 pound, rates vary by USPS shipping zone; we will tell you any additional cost due to your “postal zone”, if shipping weight is over one pound; this is the fastest and safest method available; PLEASE TELL US if you want this method. SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE USA will cost $3.50; again, your item will be wrapped in a polyethylene postcard holder, and well-protected in a cardboard sleeve. At YOUR OPTION we can ship via USPS "Priority Mail International" at a cost of $12.50 (fixed price flat rate envelope – 5 to 7 small paper items); this is a very fast and safe method; please tell us if you want this method. COMBINED SHIPMENTS: If a buyer, USA or non-USA wins more than one item, we will combine shipping, whenever possible, to save you $$$. SHIPPING SCHEDULE: We ship on Wednesday or Thursday and Saturday; 3-5 business days from date of sale.
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RETURN POLICY: Buyer may return item within 7 days of receipt, ONLY IF THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED IN LISTING. Buyer pays return shipping, subject to refund if item does not match description, as to condition, vintage, origin, type, etc. Buyer MUST notify seller before returning item, indicating item concern(s); otherwise, return will NOT be accepted. We aim to satisfy and will work with you. THANK YOU.
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