Title: USS Texas, July, 1944 Description: Damage and debris resulting in a ferocious bombardment from three old U.S. battleships - USS Texas (BB-35), USS Arkansas (BB-33), and USS Nevada (BB-36), which had been resurrected from Pearl Harbor - is shown at Fort de l'Quest, the German mine control center in Cherbourg Harbor, the city having been captured on June 26, 1944; while the battleships, accompanied by four cruisers and eleven destroyers destroyed land-based German gun installations, the U.S. Army's VIII Corps attacked the city form the rear; Battle of Cherbourg, June 25, 1944; Date: July 1, 1944 Category: World War II Keywords: bastions, battleships, bombardments, cannonades, destruction, fortresses, forts, Second World War, U.S. Navy, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1680 x 1087 (1.83 MPixels) (1.55) Print Size: 14.2 x 9.2 cm; 5.6 x 3.6 inches File Size: 5.23 MB (5,487,402 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010298 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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