Brooklyn-class cruiser
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The Brooklyn-class cruiser was a class of nine light cruisers built for the United States Navy between 1935 and 1938. Armed with five triple 6-inch gun turrets, they mounted more main battery guns tha
USS Honolulu (CL-48) in 1944
Atlanta-class cruiser
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The Atlanta-class cruisers were eight United States Navy light cruisers which were designed as fast scout cruisers, flotilla leaders, or destroyer leaders, but which proved to be effective anti-aircra
Brooklyn-class cruiser
…respectively the Cleveland-class light cruiser armed with 6-inch guns and Baltimore-class heavy cruiser armed with 8-inch guns. The third line, the Atlanta-class light cruiser armed with 5-inch guns, shared the same unit system of machinery arrangement as the other two lines, but on a smaller hull with two shafts…
USS San Juan on 14 October 1944