USS Idaho BB-42,fires the 14"/50 guns of Turret Three at nearly point-blank range, during the bombardment of Okinawa, 1 April 1945.Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).

USS Idaho during the bombardment of Okinawa

USS Mississippi BB-41.Underway at three knots in Puget Sound, Washington, 13 July 1944.She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 6D.

USS Mississippi BB-41

USS Washington BB-56 and USS Enterprise CV-6,transiting the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic, early in October 1945.
They were then en route to the U.S. East Coast to participate in Navy Day celebrations.(*rudeerude)