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BOBC's USS Massachusetts BB-59 War Diary Deck Logs 1942-1945

Navy's 'father of Aegis'

JUNIOR IN THE NAVY JUNE42

AVENGERS OF PEARL HARBOR JUNE42
ABOUT 14,000 TAKE OATH


LETS GET REALLY MAD AND STAY MAD JUNE42

NEW NAVY TORPEDO BOMBER SURPRISES JAPANESE AT MIDWAY JULY42

THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY AUG42

TORPEDO SQUADRON 8 IS AVENGED

FLYING SHARK SQUADRON AUG42

BATTLE OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS SEPT42

SOLOMONS ESCAPE THROUGH THE LINES OCT42

SOLOMONS SIX MEN BATTLE JAPS AND JUNGLE DEC42

THE VALUE OF OUR SOLOMONS BASES MAR43

CONQUEST OF GUADALCANAL MAR43

IT HAPPENED ON GUADALCANAL MAR43

THE PROBLEMS OF SUPPLYING HALSEY MAR43

THE JAPANESE "ZERO" FIGHTER NOV42

DECEMBER IN NAVAL HISTORY NOV42

GREATEST OF ITS KIND IN HISTORY DEC42

FIRST YEAR OF WAR DEC42

THE NAVY REPORTS ON PEARL HARBOR DEC42

ADMIRAL SCOTTS TRIUMPH REVEALED DEC42

ROUND 2 - 28 JAP SHIPS SUNK DEC42

THE ACTION IN NORTH AFRICA JAN43

ECHOS OF AN EARLIER AFRICAN CAMPAIGN JAN43

HOW THE AFRICAN LANDING WAS EFFECTED FEB43

ACTION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC APRIL43

THE NAVY AND WWII THE MIGHTY THIRD FLEET DEC45

FEBRUARY 1945

LEGISLATIVE MATTERS OF INTEREST 1945

NAVY PLANES HIT JAPAN; MARINES INVADE IWO MAR45

BATTLE FOR IWO APR45

INSIDE JAPAN APRIL45

HERES YOUR ENEMY MAY45

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC JUNE45

JAPS DO GIVE UP AUG45

FUELING AT SEA NOV45

FLEET ADMIRAL KING REPORTS JAN46

HOW THE JAPS STRUCK PEARL HARBOR JAN46

RENDEZVOUS WITH A BOMB APR46

TESTING THE EUGEN MAR46

DESTROYER REFUELING FROM A CARRIER JULY53

TODAYS NAVY JAN60

LIST SHIPS SERVICE CRAFT MAR56

Massachusetts (BB-59) refueling from the Saugatuck (AO-75)