USS Tennessee (BB-43)

The history of the design, development, and deployment of USS Tennessee , survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack—includes rare archival photos. Although bombed at Pearl Harbor, USS Tennessee was back to sea before the year was over. The crew of the resilient warship fought from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands to Tokyo Bay, surviving enemy artillery, bombs, and kamikaze attacks, and even collisions with other American warships. In 1945, Tennessee took part in the famous Battle of Surigao Strait, the last