USS NORTH CAROLINA BB-55 Color Photo Cachet Museum Ship Naval Pictorial Postmark

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USS NORTH CAROLINA BB-55 USN Battleship cover with a pictorial postmark on Feb 28, 2021 from Lincoln, NE. Color photo cachet #1530 by Alvin Eckert #9964 USCS. Cover franked with a 55 cent USS Missouri stamp # 5392.
This 728 foot NC Class battleship was built at the NY Naval Shipyard. She was launched on 13 June 1940 and commissioned on 9 April 1941. She had nine 16 inch guns, twenty five inch guns, fifteen 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 48 20mm anti-aircraft cannons. The ship carried three Vought OS-2U Kingfisher float-planes for recon and rescue operations. The proud vessel reported to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in July 1942, and started her three year battle with the enemy in the Pacific Theater, earning fifteen WW II Battle Stars. She was operating primarily as an anti-aircraft platform escort for the carriers and a bombardment ship attacking close-in shore battles.
She is currently a museum ship, open to the public in Wilmington, NC
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