BATTLESHIP HIT.
VIpTIM OF SUICIDE PMNE. WASHINGTON, July 18. *The Navy announced that the old battleship, U.S.S. Nevada, veteran of pearl Harbour, Normandy, South franco and Iwo Jima, was hit by a auicide plane and shells ftom a shore battery at Okinawa, and was considerably damaged. The ship suffered 78 casualties, but fought oh. The kamikaze plane struck at dawn on March 27. Seven Marines manning a 20mm. shot off the wing of the tliving plane and then died at their Stations, maintaining fire until the plane struck the Nevada. - In a duel with a shore battery on April 5 th 4 Nevada was hit five times, the Nevada fired 71 shells from one battery alone, after which the target area resembled a gravel quarry after a week’s blasting. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 239, 20 July 1945, Page 3
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