Heavy Cruisers: New Orleans Class

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Lead Ship,Heavy Cruiser USS New Orleans pictured in June 1934.

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Embarked Curtiss SOC Seagull Observation Scout Plane aboard New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser USS Minneapolis in 1943.

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ASTORIA not long before Savo Island........ DFO

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New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser USS Tuscaloosa, pictured at San Pedro, on April 15th, 1935.

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New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser USS San Francisco pictured off Mare Island Navy Yard on October 13th 1944.

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Here is the ASTORIA plowing thru heavy seas! DFO

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The final overhaul for QUINCY had been completed; so off she went to war in the Pacific.........DFO

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Family Day aboard New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser USS Minneapolis in 1934.

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New Orleans Class Heavy Cruiser USS San Francisco pictured at Mare Island Navy Yard in April 1934...Commissioned on February 10th 1934, she was one of the most decorated ships of World War II, earning 17 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation..Like most of her sister ships, she saw extensive action during the Guadalcanal campaign, including the Battle of Cape Esperance and the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, during which she was heavily damaged and her captain and admiral killed. Earlier in the battle she mistakenly fired on the Light Cruiser Atlanta, causing serious damage and inflicting numerous casualties...Decommissioned immediately after the end of the war, she was sold for scrap in 1959.

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Lead Ship, Heavy Cruiser USS New Orleans pictured in refit at Mare Island Navy Yard on February 4th 1942..Omaha Class Light Cruiser USS Detroit is opposite....Both would survive the war with Detroit being scrapped in 1946 and New Orleans in 1959.