Light Cruisers: Omaha Class

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Omaha Class Light Cruisers pictured during the Aleutians Campaign in 1943.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Detroit pictured at Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston in 1928...Commissioned in 1923, she spent her first eight years as part of the Scouting Fleet either in the Atlantic or Mediterranean. Her first duty was to assist in the USAAS's first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924 and transported the United States Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, in 1927, from Ireland to France for the negotiations that led to the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. In 1931 she joined the Battle Force, where her home port was San Diego until moving to Pearl Harbor in 1941. Detroit was moored next to her sister Raleigh when the Japanese attacked on the morning of December 7th 1941. She was scrapped in 1946.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Memphis pictured in drydock at Kiel, c1926-1927, whilst she was serving as flagship for Commander U.S. Naval Forces, Europe.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Concord pictured off Mare Island Navy Yard on February 9th 1942.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Marblehead pictured in Dry Dock No 2 at Boston Navy Yard in June 1932.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Trenton pictured in dry dock at South Boston Annex on December 6th 1931.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Raleigh pictured undergoing self maintenance at Charlestown Navy Yard in December 1930.....Frigate USS Constitution is in the background.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Memphis pictured at St Nazaire on June 26th 1926.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Milwaukee pictured at Tacoma in 1923.

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Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Marblehead pictured in for repairs, at Boston Navy Yard showing the damage incurred during her collision with the Boston Light Collier Evansville in a dense fog, 40 miles North-Northwest of the Nantucket Lightship on November 15th 1929.