Revenants of Pearl Harbor - Nevada, California and West Virginia's return to the front lines

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Man, post-refit California was a shockingly attractive ship. I love how smoothly her height builds and then decreases from bow to stern, and the summetrical superfiring turret pairs.

To think whilst they were doing this, they were also developing the B29, the Norden bomb sight and the Atom bomb. One of my favourite stories is what happened when the Tennessee turned up at Tarawa after her return ro service

After the pearl harbor attack why didn't they bring up the Arizona and repair her after they had all the other battle ships repaired enough to sail to Puget sound for refit. Yes I'm aware of all the lives lost on the Arizona but they would have been better to be laid to rest. Now she's an environmental problem leaking oil still .

AS I recall "Nevada" is Spanish for "snow covered"

Some of those ol' girls covered with new 40 mm quads look like drift logs covered with barnacles! Thanks, good to know how busy the yards were during the war.

yes, I'd like to hear the stories of Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Maryland.

SUCH A SARCASTIC ANNOYING VOICE I SUGGEST A COMPUTER GENERATED ONE OTHERWISE VERY FACTUAL NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF VISUAL THOUGH THANK U

How the heck (and when and where) do they build a floating drydock that can lift a 30,000 ton battleship clear of the water?

Wonderful video of three VERY Classy Ladies!

Thank you!

Please do another , would love to see Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee. Loved this 1 , another great video of the "standards".

I watched it. Found it more cursory than in depth. Interested in smaller vessels not just capitol ships.

I've realized that I'm far more interested in the histories of the ships themselves, and the men who served on them, than I am in the history of wars in general. This subject was on my to-research list, it was a treat to find this video! Please do make a follow-up video about the other salvaged ships!

Genuinely fascinating how they didn’t realize surviving Pearl Harbor and two nukes meant that as a gunnery target it was going to take quite a lot to take her down.

I own a piece of deck planking from USS Indiana

Curious, what happened to the Pearl Harbor crew of the Nevada? Did it get reassigned crew or did the old crew stay with her during the refit?

The mast of the USS West Virginia stands as sentinel over the downtown Campus of West Virginia University since May, 1963.

"Nevahda, Nevad-a, Nevayda, apparently these are all valid in the US?" [sound of angry Nevadans stampeding to keyboards]

This channel is simply excellent. It belongs in my subscription list.

The Nevada refit, as it went on:

"Nah, that's still not enough pewpew on the anti-aircraft guns"

Upon visiting Arlington I thought the USS Maine memorial striking and well done, but thought the US should have done something similar for the losses at Pearl Harbour.

One of the great ironies of WWII. The Old Ladies of Pearl Harbor—with new fire control—dial in the Japanese at Surigao Strait and exact a terrible revenge with massive and accurate 16” and 14” gunfire. Along with the destroyers and cruisers, it was a massacre.of retribution.

Drachi, your narrative style, not to mention the wealth of information is simply priceless! I thoroughly enjoy every second of your documentaries!

Love your style of commenting, let´s hear what others damaged ships managed to accomplished! :)

Incredible historical knowledge that is even more entertaining w/the matter of fact British narration as an American,can't help but feel affinity for Britannia.

With Nevada... if they hadn't found the wreck, I'm not sure I'd believe that they actually managed to sink her.
"Sunk" at Pearl Harbor - wait, nope, beached and avoided sinking. Still above water
Nuked - Still above water
Nuked again - Still above water
Used as gunnery practice by her 5x Great-granddaughers... still above water.

it just occurred to me that this makes Nevada, California, and West Virginia the world's largest non-nuclear submarines by technicality

ne vay da never heard that one.

Ftaod, yes. We want to hear about all the ships.

Great and very interesting follow up to the Salvage of Pearl Harbor series Drach! Well done sir, thank you. Oh and Yes please do a video on the damaged ships

You definitely honor our veterans with your contributions on preserving our history thank you

Lol, Nevada looked like they had a couple of oil rigs on top of her. Weird looking superstructure to say the least.

I know you did a dry dock set of videos but I would be very interested in seeing an in depth survey of the actual salvage operations after December 7th. Might be interesting as well to do a survey of immediate salvage and repair of all vessels in the Pacific Theater. I know they were done under challenging conditions with minimal equipment in all sorts of weather.

I appreciate Drachinifel;s work, I really do.

The point bears making that at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, Utah was no longer carried as a battleship on the Navy rolls. In 1931 it was largely demilitarized, designated AD16, and equipped with a lot of anti-aircraft weapons for use training gun crews. Yes, Utah was there. No, she wasn't a battleship anymore.

Who told you that those three ways of pronouncing ‘Nevada’ were “valid”? Was it a Scotsman?

Nevada pronounced with a long "a" is not a legitimate pronunciation anywhere. You might hear it from someone who imagines they are being humourous and possibly "humouressly" dismissive of the state. The two common pronunciations use either the "a" from "flat," or the "ah" as in "father" typical of proper Spanish pronunciation.

Thoroughly enjoy your detailed presentations.
I have never heard Nevada pronounced with a long "A", or any other way than NE-V-AHH-DAHH. AH as in amused/

Nevada, Pennsylvania, California ,
Tennessee and West Virginia 41vision and 1944 vision
looks like two different ships , Unbelieveable

I really like the look of the old standard battleships, don't get me wrong, the iowas are drop dead gorgeous but these old ships have the "old warship charm" imo

The Japanese never attacked Pearl Harbor.

Sad they used those beautiful ships as target practice.

Ne-VAD-uh (The State) the Spanish word it comes from is said differently.

Really like the way you present this is very entertaining and informative

Thank you. A most enjoyable 42 minutes.

Screaming in Anime: "Nani?!? Those ships were destroooooyed!"

Yes, please, would like to hear about the other 3.

Do you have a video on the dry dock ship Artisan? I just learned about this thing and it is blowing my mind and I wonder if there are any other comparable ships in other navies

Nevayda is never, under any circumstance, an acceptable pronunciation 😂😂