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USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6) (L) and USS YORKTOWN (CV-5) under construction at Newport News, Virginia.

Note: the ship under construction in the background is USS BOISE (CL-47).

Photographed on February 8, 1937.

Photos posted on Flickr by SDASM Archives: link, link

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"USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, following battle damage repairs and modernization."

Photographed on September 5, 1944.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 97955

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"Corpsmen attend casualties on the forecastle of USS SAVANNAH (CL-42), after a German radio-controlled bomb hit her # 3 six-inch gun turret during the Salerno operation."

"Blankets cover crewmen killed when a German radio-controlled bomb hit the ship's # 3 six-inch gun turret."

Photographed on September 11, 1943.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-54355, 80-G-54353

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"Crewmen fighting fires in the no. 3 six-inch gun turret of USS SAVANNAH (CL-42), after it was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation.

Note: the fully-equipped life rafts stowed atop the turret, and casualties laid out on deck alongside the # 2 turret."

Photographed on September 11, 1943.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-54357

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"USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation. The bomb hit the top of the ship's number three 6/47 gun turret and penetrated deep into her hull before exploding. The photograph shows the explosion venting through the top of the turret and also through SAVANNAH's hull below the waterline. A motor torpedo boat (PT) is passing by in the foreground."

Photographed on September 11, 1943.

Collection of Admiral H. Kent Hewett, USN.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 95562

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"USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno Operation. Smoke is pouring from the bomb's impact hole atop the ship's number three 6/47 gun turret."

Date: September 11, 1943

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: SC 243636

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"View of the bomb penetration hole atop the number three 6/47 gun turret of USS SAVANNAH (CL-42), while the ship was undergoing initial repairs off Salerno, Italy. She was hit by a German radio-controlled bomb during the Salerno operation.

Note: the life rafts atop the turret, one of which has been cut in two by the bomb. Also note the turret's armored faceplate. View looks forward, with number two 6/47 gun turret in the immediate background. The original photo caption, released on November 2, 1943, reads (in part): A round, clean hole marks the point of entry of a Nazi bomb on the cruiser SAVANNAH. Inside, all was chaos, smoke, blood, and death."

Photographed on September 11, 1943.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 97959

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"USS BROOKLYN (CL-40) in an Atlantic Convoy, as seen from either the USS NEW YORK (BB-34) or USS TEXAS (BB-35)."

Date: Early-Mid 1942

Photographed by Frank Scherschel, LIFE Magazine. Identified by Peter DeForest: link

LIFE Magazine Archives: 115818684