Capture and defense of Guadalcanal, January to February 08, 1943
Authorized, March 03, 1934
Keel laid, November 20, 1939
Christened and Launched at Newport News, Virginia, November 21, 1941, 1043 Hours
Commissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, April 30, 1942, 1100 Hours
Departed Hampton Roads, Virginia for Pacific Fleet, November 09, 1942, 1330 Hours.
Passage through Panama Canal, November 13, 1942
Arrived Noumea, New Caledonia, and joined Pacific Fleet, December 02, 1942, 1610 Hours
Capture and defense of Guadalcanal, January to February 08, 1943
Rennell Island Campaign, January 29 to January 30, 1943
New Georgia Campaign, June 20 to July 25, 1943
Marcus Island Raid, August 31, 1943
Gilbert Islands Operations, November 11 to December 12, 1943
Marshall Islands Operations, January 19 to February 01, 1944
Collision with Battleship USS Washington, February 01, 1944, 0429 Hours
Truk, Satawan, Ponape Raid, April 29 to May 01, 1944
Marianas Operations, June 10 to August 27, 1944
Capture and Occupation of Southern Palau Islands, August 30 to September
21, 1944
Iwo Jima Campaign, February 15 to March 18,1945
Okinawa - Gunto Operation, March 17 to June 11, 1945
Typhoon, west of Okinawa, June 05,1945, arrived about midnight; at 0500 hours raining horizontally at 138 miles per hour, barometer reading 28.29 inches - 986.0 millabars, with a record roll of 26 degrees
Kamaishi and Hammamatsu Bombardments, July 14, July 30, August 09, 1945
Yokosuka Naval Base Landing Force, August 20, 1743 Hours to September 06, 1945, 1235 Hrs
Anchored in Tokyo Bay, September 05, 1945, 0730 Hours
Departed Tokyo Bay for San Francisco, September 14, 1945, 1250 Hours
Departed Pearl Harbor for San Francisco, September 23, 1945, 1600 Hours
Passed under Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, September 29, 1945, 0744 Hours
Departed Hunters Point for Bremerton, Washington October 29, 1945, 0751 Hours
Anchored in Puget Sound, October 31, 1945, 1550 Hours
Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton Washington, November 01 to 30, 1945
Departed Bremerton, WA for San Francisco, February 11, 1946, 0637 Hours
Moored Pier 33 Embarcadaro San Francisco, February 13, 1946, 1015 Hours
Departed Pier 33 Embarcadero San Francisco for Bremerton, Washington April 02, 1946, 1131 Hrs
Anchored Bremerton, WA, April 05, 1946, 0645 Hours
At 1515 Hours, Wednesday September 11, 1946, USS Indiana was placed in Commission in Reserve at Pier #5, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Decommissioned, Puget Sound, September 11, 1947
Stricken From the Navy List, June 01, 1962
Sold for $418,317, September 06, 1963
Scrapped
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