US Battleship Pennsylvania class COBI 4842 - Executive Edition WWII

You know that:

• The Pennsylvania-class battleships were built by the famous New York Navy Year and Newport News Shipbuilding as early as the end of Great War.
• The class consisted of two sister vessels, USS Arizona and USS Pennsylvania.
• The cost of each vessel would be worth approximately 250 000 000 € at today's prices.
• The designers of the ships opted for an unusual armouring design, which they named "All or Nothing", which meant heavy double armouring of important parts, while other parts of the ship were only lightly armoured, or not at all.
• Both ships were rebuilt and modernized in the interwar period, but each met a very different fate.
• The better known ship was probably the USS Arizona, which, in addition to military missions, also fulfilled political and representative missions, demonstrating the strength and maturity of the US Navy during official visits to the ports of many countries.
• The second ship, the USS Pennsylvania, in turn participated in the historically last naval battle in the Surigato Strait on 25 October 1944 against the Japanese ships Yamashiro, Fuso and Mogami.
• While the USS Arizona was destroyed on 7 December 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the USS Pennsylvania served until 1946 when she was used as a target in the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb test. 
• A memorial to the soldiers killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor is established over the final resting place of the USS Arizona.

Technical parameters:

• dimensions: length 185.3 m, width 29.6 m, draught 8.8 m
• displacement 35 381 t (full)
• propulsion unit 12 Barbock & Wilcox boilers, 4 Pärson turbines with a total output of 24 900 kW with power transmission to 4 propellers
• maximum speed 39 km/h
• armour plating 356 mm locally, 76 and 36 mm otherwise
• armament 12 365 mm guns + 22 127 mm guns + 4 76 mm guns (armament 1916)
  Vought OS2U Kingfisher observation aircraft on board (2x catapult)
• crew 1050

From the memories of Ken Potts, the USS Arizona's yeoman after the attack on Pearl Harbor:

"I don't know what hell looks like. But I think that morning I was as close to it as I could get."