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...Brazilian warships took part in the Normandy landings, helped escort transports carrying the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to the Italian front. Four ships and over 500 men were lost. Many of the casualties were suffered when the cruiser Baia sank in 1945, probably as the result of striking a floating mine...
...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...
Roscoe Hillenkoetter will go back to sea as commander of a cruiser division...
...China, covered guerrilla warfare in Indo-China, went along on a Chinese Nationalist bombing raid from Formosa to Shanghai. When war started in Korea, ex-Marine Fielder volunteered to cover it, left his wife and ten-month-old son behind in Hong Kong. He was aboard the light cruiser Juneau when it shelled Korea's east coast, and filed a notable report-"Last Train from Vladivostok" (TIME, July...
...Launched at Kearny, N.J. in 1945 and named after the famed, ill-fated 6,000-ton cruiser Juneau, which was blown up by a Jap torpedo on Nov. 14, 1942 at the southern end of "The Slot," the strip of water running northwest-southeast through the Solomon Islands. All but ten of the Juneau's crew were lost, including the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa...