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80 Years Ago Today: Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Columbia (CL-56) 6″/47 Mark 16 expended powder casings from Turrets 3 & 4 lying on the main deck aft of the ship during bombardment of Buka Island in the Solomons by CruDiv 12. December 24, 1943.
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A 6-inch Christmas Eve off Buka
80 Years Ago Today: Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Columbia (CL-56) 6″/47 Mark 16 expended powder casings from Turrets 3 & 4 lying on the main deck aft of the ship during bombardment o…
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Solomon Islands Campaign XII The Bougainville Landing and the Battle od Empress Augusta Bay, 27 October - 2 November 1943
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USS Columbia (CL-56), 1942-1946
The Cleveland-class light cruiser, USS Columbia (CL-56), was commissioned on July 28, 1942, at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey. Ordered to the Pacific, she arrived to participate in the final stages of Guadalcanal Campaign, seeing action at the Battle of Rennell Island in...
Columbia VI (CL-56)
The capital of South Carolina. VI (CL-56: displacement 10,000; length 610'1