The heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) fires her 8 inch/55 caliber guns while bombarding a Pacific island in February 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

USS Salt Lake City in Action

November 20, 2018

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The heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) fires her 8 inch/55 caliber guns while bombarding a Pacific island in February 1942. The cruiser’s Curtiss SOC Seagull floatplane is shown in the foreground. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

The heavy cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) fires her 8 inch/55 caliber guns while bombarding a Pacific island in February 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.) — (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

With the flight deck crowded with aircraft, the U.S. Navy Independence-class light aircraft carrier USS Cowpens (CVL-25) underway in the Pacific in July 1943. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

USS Cowpens at Sea

A Piper L-4 Grasshopper liaison aircraft, nicknamed Elizabeth, prepares to takeoff from the USS Ranger (CV-4) during Operation Torch in November 1942. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)

Piper L-4 Grasshopper on USS Ranger

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