Light Cruisers: Brooklyn Class

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BOISE thru the early/war years............ DFO

[Brian James]

Brooklyn Class Light Cruiser USS Boise pictured off San Pedro on September 14th 1945..Commissioned in 1938, she saw extensive service during World War II, taking part in fighting in the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Following the war she was decommissioned in 1946 and lay idle until sold to Argentina in 1951. Renamed Nueve de Julio, she remained in service with the Argentinian Navy until 1978, after which she was taken to Brownsville, Texas and scrapped in 1983.

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Lead Ship, Light Cruiser USS Brooklyn pictured anchored in the Hudson River off New York City in 1934.

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An original colour image of the kamikaze damage suffered to Brooklyn Class Light Cruiser USS Nashville...On December 13th 1944, she was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 inch gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 inch guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire...She was scrapped at Taiwan in 1985.