#USS Idaho (BB-42)

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USS IDAHO (BB-42) recently refitted and on post-refit trials near Puget Sound, Washington.

This was her final wartime refit and her open mounted 5"/25 guns were replaced with ten enclosed 5"/38 weapons. "In addition to the ten 5"/38 single enclosed secondary battery IDAHO also had upgrades to fire control equipment. This included Mk 8 Mod 2 main battery fire control radar mounted in front of her forward Mk 31 main battery director. She still retained her aft Mk 3 main battery fire control radar mounted on the aft Mk 31 director. A Mk 27 main battery director was mounted on the Conning Tower.

For secondary battery control Idaho had MK 28 radars installed on her two Mk 33 directors. She also had fourteen MK 51 directors for her 40mm guns."

Photographed on January 2, 1945.

Photos and information from Navsource: link

United States. Navy, “USS Idaho battleship,” Digital Collections, accessed November 24, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/19020

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USS Idaho (BB-42), a New Mexico-class battleship shells Okinawa on 1 April 1945, easily distinguished by her tower foremast & 5”-38 Mk 30 single turrets (visible between the barrels of the forward main turrets).

Idaho was the only battleship with this configuration.

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USS Idaho (BB-42) bombarding Okinawa, on April 1, 1945. Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).

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New Mexico-class battleship USS 'Idaho' BB-42 off Kwajalein early 31 January 1944 to soften up shore positions.

On 31 January 1944, 'Idaho' and the rest of the fleet arrived off Kwajalein, Marshall Islands to begin the preparatory bombardment. She continued to batter Japanese forces until 5 February, by which time the Marines had wrested control of the small island from its Japanese garrison. 'Idaho' replenished fuel and ammunition at Majuro before returning to shell Japanese positions on other islands in the Marshalls before steaming to Kavieng, New Ireland to conduct a diversionary bombardment on 20 March.

In September 1941, she was stationed in Hvalfjörður, Iceland, and was there when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December.

She remained in reserve for a year and a half before being sold for scrap on 24 November 1947 to Lipsett, Inc., of New York City. Idaho received seven battle stars for World War II service.

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USS Idaho, BB-42, featuring a lively sea and winds and spray. Launched during WW1 and commissioned in 1919, the Idaho and its two sister ships were transferred to the US Pacific Fleet after Pearl Harbor and saw extensive service against the Japanese, escorting troop carrying ships and providing heavy artillery support for US amphibious assaults on Japanese-held islands. She was present in Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender.

As an older ship she was disposed of in 1946.

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USS Idaho (BB-42) taking part in the prelanding bombardment of Okinawa

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USS Idaho (BB-42) New Mexico-class battleship cruising down Panama canal.

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An SOC-3 Seagull aboard USS Idaho (BB-42) during fleet maneuvers off Hawaii

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Workers utilizing a pier side crane and USS KEARSARGE (AB-1) to regun USS IDAHO (BB-42) at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington.

Photographed on January 7, 1926.

Navy Photo: P-7190

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New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) in 1943.

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USS Idaho (BB-42) transiting the Panama Canal, October, 1945, while en route to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard to take part in the Navy Day celebrations there at the end of that month

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“USS Idaho (BB-42) fitting out at the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, 10 March 1919.”

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USS Mississippi, BB-41, foreground, and USS Idaho, BB-42, during their modernization refit at Norfolk Navy Yard, on 30 May 1933.[2959 x 2263] Check this blog!

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USS Idaho (BB-42) in 1944.

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USS IDAHO (BB-42) Panama-October 1945