Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helena...
That was the light cruiser Helena...
First Look, First Blood. Putting in at Montevideo on her shakedown cruise in 1939, the Helena got her first look at war when she passed close aboard the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, scuttled in the bay. Her second, closer look came at Pearl Harbor. She was hit, and that day her crew became a fighting team. Her 5-in. anti-aircraft battery, her light weapons spoke with the trained, nervous insistence of a machine. Helena knocked down six Jap planes that calamitous...
Lieutenant Colton G. Morris, UNSR, will tell his eye-witness account of how blood plasma saved the lives of many of the U.S.S. Helena's crew, when he broadcasts over the Crimson Network tomorrow at 9:15 o'clock...
...dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser Helena, the destroyers Strong and Gwin and the transport McCawley...