USN · BB
South Dakota
Photos and infoSouth Dakota-class battleship. Behind Washington on 15 November 1942. A power failure left her nearly blind, and Kirishima and the Japanese cruisers hit her more than two dozen times. She was not sunk, and she was not the ship that sank Kirishima.
South Dakota classBadly damaged on the battleship night off Guadalcanal, 15 November 1942. Not sunk. She did not sink Kirishima. Survived the war.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-466248. USS South Dakota (BB-57) underway in the Atlantic during her shakedown, July 1942. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Command
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, battleship night
1942-11-15 · more than two dozen hits; not sunk
