    
Title: USS Pennsylvania, May, 1943 Description: A boatswain's mate on board the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) pipes the crew to attention over the public address system, calling them to battle stations, just before the battleship began shelling Japanese positions at Holtz Bay, on the island of Attu in the Aleutians; the battleship narrowly maneuvered from the path of a torpedo fired by Japanese submarine I-31 the following day; the I-31 was hunted down and sunk on June 13, 1943 by the destroyer USS Frazier (DD-607); Date: May 11, 1943 Category: World War II Keywords: alarms, alerts, announcements, battleships, destroyers, Second World War, U.S. Navy, U.S. sailors, submarines, World War II, WWII Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1170 x 1425 (1.67 MPixels) (1.22) Print Size: 9.9 x 12.1 cm; 3.9 x 4.8 inches File Size: 4.78 MB (5,007,680 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010238 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
