Shell Fragment from the USS Massachusetts (BB-59)

from A History of the Navy in 100 Objects · host United States Naval Academy

Video 54 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is about a Operation Torch during WWII.

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Battleships ceded their primacy to aircraft in WWII, but they still played an important role. Today’s object comes from one of the more unusual ship to ship engagements during the war, that between the USS Massachusetts and the French battleship Jean Bart, in Casablanca as part of Operation Torch.

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