1930 Telephone Directory-U.S.S. West Virginia,1929 Menu Card , San Pedro, Calif.

Description

This is a 1930 military telephone directory for the U.S.S. West Virginia.  It measures 5" x 7 5/8" with 9 pages.  There are glue marks on the back cover and it has a vertical fold.
Also included is a 1929 menu card for Memorial Day aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia in San Pedro, California. The card measures 3 1/4" x 5 1/4" with a blank back.
USS
West Virginia
(BB-48)
was the fourth
dreadnought battleship
of the
Colorado
class
, though because
Washington
was cancelled, she was the third and final member of the class to be completed. The
Colorado
class proved to be the culmination of the
standard-type battleship
series built for the
United States Navy
in the 1910s and 1920s; the ships were essentially repeats of the earlier
Tennessee
design, but with a significantly more powerful
main battery
of eight 16-inch (406 mm) guns in twin-
gun turrets
.
West Virginia
was built between her
keel laying
in 1920 and her
commissioning
into the Navy in 1923. The ship spent the 1920s and 1930s conducting routine training exercises, including the typically-annual
Fleet Problems
, which provided invaluable experience for the coming
war in the Pacific
.
West Virginia
was moored in
Battleship Row
on the morning of 7 December 1941 when Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor
, bringing the United States into
World War II
. Badly damaged by
torpedoes
, the ship sank in the shallow water but was later refloated and extensively rebuilt over the course of 1943 and into mid-1944. She returned to service in time for the
Philippines Campaign
, where she led the American
line of battle
at the
Battle of Surigao Strait
on the night of 24–25 October. There, she was one of the few American battleships to use her
radar
to acquire a target in the darkness, allowing her to engage a Japanese squadron in what was the final action between battleships in naval history.