File:USS Tennessee (BB-43) at anchor at Colombo, Ceylon, with three destroyers alongside, in late 1945.jpg
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English: The U.S. Navy U.S. Navy battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) at anchor at Colombo, Ceylon, with three destroyers alongside. Tennessee and her sistership USS California (BB-44) returned to the United States from Japan via via Singapore, Colombo, and Cape Town (South Africa) to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania (USA), because their modernisation had made it impossible to pass through the Panama Canal. The ships left Japan on 15 October 1945, arriving at Philadephia on 7 December 1945. The were in Colomba from 30 October to 2 November 1945. |
| Date | between 30 October 1945 and 2 November 1945 |
| Source | U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS California (BB-44) 1945 cruise book available at Navysite.de |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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