Title: USS Pennsylvania, February, 1943 Description: A U.S. Navy dentist and assistant fills the tooth of a sailor on board the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), while the 31,400-ton battleship was undergoing an overhaul in San Francisco and before it sailed the following month for action in the Aleutians; the Pennsylvania had been one of the battleships of the U.S. Pacific fleet attacked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and was the first to use its guns against swarms of Japanese planes; it was damaged during that attack, but completely repaired and it saw extensive action in the Pacific for the remainder of the war; Date: February 4, 1943 Category: World War II Keywords: battleships, dentists, dentistry, Second World War, U.S. Navy, U.S. sailors, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1260 x 1030 (1.30 MPixels) (1.22) Print Size: 10.7 x 8.7 cm; 4.2 x 3.4 inches File Size: 3.72 MB (3,897,746 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010236 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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