USS Pennsylvania leading Colorado, Louisville, Portland and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, January 1945.

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 2 points (+2|-0)

The finest cruisers of their day.

[–] doggone [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Not correcting you, but just for clarity, the Pennsylvania and Colorado here are battleships and the rest are cruisers.

[–] angeredwhackjob 3 points (+3|-0)

Edited

Yep, state name=battleship. City name=cruiser. During ww2. Nowadays it's state=SSBN, city=SSN

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 1 points (+1|-0)

You're totally right. I guess I glossed over the state names.

[–] cyclops1771 1 points (+1|-0)

This reminds me that I found a set of books The Royal Navy, A History from the earliest times to the present, a 7-volume set, at an estate sale a few years back. (They look exactly like this )

Although it was a patched together set, each was part of the same printing in 1897. And inside was marked a sticker on the inside of the front cover "Ship's Library" and the name of the vessel the particular volume came from.

3 from the USS Kansas, 1 from USS Michigan, 1 from USS Mayflower Yes THAT USS Mayflower!!!!, and 2 from USS Philadelphia.

So, it is most likely that these volumes were on board when Teddy Roosevelt hammered out the Russo-Japanese peace treaty on the Mayflower, that these volumes traveled around the globe with the Great White Fleet, and now they sit in my hand built wall shelves in my house. Pretty sure that the latest is their most impressive moment!

[–] doggone [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

If books could talk, ha... That's great.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

Terrifying, good Lord.

USS Pennsylvania leading Colorado, Louisville, Portland and Columbia into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, January 1945.

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