Light Cruisers: Cleveland Class

[Brian James]

An original colour image of Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Mobile preparing to launch her Vought OS2U Kingfisher during the Marcus Island campaign in 1944...USS Yorktown is in the background.

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Denver pictured post her major overhaul,sporting her camouflage Measure 33 Design 3d livery off Mare Island Navy Yard on May 3rd 1944.

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7th Fleet flagship, Galveston Class Guided Missile Light Cruiser USS Oklahoma City pictured on arrival at Saigon on July 21st 1964...Commissioned in late 1944 as a Cleveland Class, she participated in the latter part of the Pacific War in anti-aircraft screening and shore bombardment roles, for which she earned two battle stars. She then served a brief stint with the occupation force. Like all but one of her sister ships, she was retired in the post-war defense cutbacks, becoming part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet in 1947.In the late 1950s she was converted to a Galveston-Class Guided Missile Cruiser.

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Duluth pictured entering Port Melbourne in 1947.

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Two nice views of CLEVELAND under construction, and a early view of her completed. Note the rounded bridge house versus the "squared" one on DULUTH........ DFO

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Here is the GALVESTON in 1965............ DFO

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Manchester pictured ammunitioning from Mount Hood Class Ammunition Ship USS Mount Katmai, off Wonsan, North Korea on May 3rd 1951.

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Sante Fe pictured off Philadelphia Navy Yard on January 9th 1943.

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser USS Birmingham pictured with her embarked Curtiss SC Seahawk at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, in November 1945.

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Cleveland Class Light Cruiser US Manchester pictured in 1950.