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...
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In August 1944, the USS Quincy (CA-71) Baltimore-class heavy cruiser fires her forward 8-inch guns at German positions. A smoke screen laid by another ship is visible in the background. (U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives...
USS Minneapolis (CA-36), a U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser, is docked at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii in April 1943 after repairs. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) passes through the Panama Canal in January 1938 en route to join the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
USS San Francisco (CA-38), a heavy cruiser of the U.S. Navy, underway at sea in April 1944 near Majuro Atoll. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Boston (CA-69) photographed from the USS Quincy (CA-71) in August 1945. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)
Three U.S. Navy heavy cruisers — USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Pensacola (CA-24) and USS New Orleans (CA-32) — docked together at Pearl Harbor in October 1943. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)