The USS Tennessee.
On this day in 1920, the USS Tennessee was launched. She was at Pearl Harbor in 1941 but was not sunk as the bombs that hit her failed to perform correctly. She was damaged and pinned in her moring, but was released from being pinned on December 9 when repairs and updating commenced. She served through the war and was decommissioned in 1947.
The Navy was receiving a fair number of new ships, which wasn't surprising given that ships started during World War One were still being completed. But it was the situation south of the border that was drawing attention of the type that would involve the Army, if something was to really occur. There was in effort in that vein to place Mexico's conduct towards foreign nationals in the Republican platform for 1920, an act that would require military intervention as part of a political platform if the perception of Mexican recalcitrance remained.
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