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Summary and Key Points: The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, although less famous than Iowa-class battleships, played a key role in World War II by protecting U.S. Navy carrier groups and bombarding ...

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USS Baltimore primer: During the Second World War, the U.S. Navy’s Baltimore-class heavy cruisers became the first of their kind to be designed without the limitations of the London Treaty. Outlined ...

Key Points and Summary - The Alaska-class ships were unique American warships from World War II, designed as massive "large cruisers" or battlecruisers. -Their mission was to be "cruiser-killers," ...

The Second World War was home to some brutal fighting. Few theaters were quite as grueling as the War in the Pacific, which saw American and Allied forces squaring off with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco. (U.S.

WASHINGTON — On a dark night with no moon and heavily overcast skies on Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was one of 11 cruisers and destroyers sailing in formation into the waters near the Solomon ...