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The Atlanta class originally had 16 x 5-inch (127 mm)/38 caliber guns in eight two-gun turrets, arranged with three superfiring turrets forward, three more superfiring aft and two waist mounts, one port and one starboard, giving the first four Atlanta-class cruisers the heaviest anti-aircraft armament of any cruiser of World War II.
USS Atlanta (CL-51) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of eight light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta , Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval battles Midway and the Eastern Solomons .
Cleveland class: Light cruiser [37] Name Country Region City Nationality Launched Class Type Remarks Ref USS LST-325: United States Indiana: Evansville: United States: 1942 LST Mk.3: Landing Ship, Tank [38] USS LST-393: United States Michigan: Muskegon: United States: 1942 LST: Landing Ship, Tank: USS LST 393 Veterans Museum USS LST-1008: China ...
USS Atlanta was a Cleveland-class light cruiser of the United States Navy, which were built during World War II. The class was designed as a development of the earlier Brooklyn -class cruisers , the size of which had been limited by the First London Naval Treaty .
The Navy agreed in the waning days of the war to construct a small number of cruisers for the purpose of operationally testing new gun designs and other major improvements incorporating the lessons learned of World War II combat: the 'CL-154' and Worcester classes of light cruisers (respectively 5-inch and 6-inch main batteries), and the Des ...
Alaska-class cruiser; Atlanta-class cruiser; Baltimore-class cruiser; Brooklyn-class cruiser; Cleveland-class cruiser; Fargo-class cruiser; Juneau-class cruiser; New Orleans-class cruiser; Northampton-class cruiser; Omaha-class cruiser; Pensacola-class cruiser; Portland-class cruiser