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USS Massachusets[edit]

BB-59, a Decorated Veteran[edit]

Weapons
1.1"/75 caliber gun
16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun
5"/38 caliber gun
Bofors 40 mm gun
Broadside
M2 Browning
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Engagments and Places
Abemama
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Tarawa
Cape Engaño (Luzon)
Caroline Islands
Chuuk Lagoon
Fore River Shipyard
Gilbert Islands
Guam
Hamamatsu
Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong
Honshu
Iwo Jima
Jayapura
Kamaishi, Iwate
Kwajalein Atoll
Kyushu
Leyte
Leyte Gulf
Lingayen, Pangasinan
Makin (islands)
Manila
Marshall Islands
Naval Battle of Casablanca
Norfolk, Virginia
Nouméa
Okinawa Prefecture
Operation Torch
Operations Reckless and Persecution
Pacific War
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Philippines Campaign (1944–45)
Pohnpei
Puget Sound
Quincy, Massachusetts
Ryukyu Islands
Saint-Nazaire
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands campaign
South China Sea
Taiwan
Tinian
Ulithi
World War II
Post-war – Museum ship
Battleship Cove
Fall River, Massachusetts
Museum ship
National Historic Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
Naval Vessel Register
Fleets
United States Fifth Fleet
United States Navy reserve fleets
United States Third Fleet
Other Vessels
600-ship Navy
Aircraft carrier
Battleship
California
Fast battleship
Fast Carrier Task Force
French battleship Jean Bart (1940)
French cruiser Primauguet (1924)
French destroyer Boulonnais
French destroyer Fougueux
Hampton Roads
Heavy cruiser
Iowa-class battleship
Merchant vessel
San Francisco
South Dakota-class battleship (1939)
USS Alabama (BB-60)
USS Indiana (BB-58)
USS Iowa (BB-61)
USS Massachusetts (BB-59)
USS Missouri (BB-63)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS North Carolina (BB-55)
USS South Dakota (BB-57)
USS Texas (BB-35)
USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37)
USS Washington (BB-56)
USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Awards
American Campaign Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
Navy Occupation Service Medal
Philippine Liberation Medal
Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation
World War II Victory Medal (United States)
People and Organizations
Allies of World War II
Axis powers
Free France
Henry Kent Hewitt
United States
United States Congress
United States Navy
Vichy France
Events
Typhoon Cobra (1944)