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On 6 July, Wichita, three other cruisers, and four destroyers bombarded Japanese positions on the island of Kiska. [30] The bombardment convinced the Japanese that the Americans intended to invade the island in the near future; they therefore planned an evacuation by July.
Wichita's 8-inch battery crashed out at 0706, aimed at El Hank. Cheeking fire at 0723 when her spotting planes informed her that the French guns appeared to be silenced, the heavy cruiser shifted her 8-inch rifles in the direction of French submarines in Casablanca harbor.
17 kwi 2020 · The cruiser played a key part in silencing coastal defense batteries, and she also famously dueled with battleship Jean Bart at Casablanca, alongside USS Massachusetts.
With the Royal Fleet Auxiliary War Bharata alongside, the USS Wichita (CA 45) is anchored at Hvalfjord, Iceland after arriving with Task Force 39, and joining forces with the Royal Navy for Russian convoy protection duty.
8 paź 2017 · Around midnight during the night of 30 June / 1 July 1942, the heavy cruisers HMS London (Capt. R.M. Servaes, CBE, RN, flying the flag of Rear-Admiral L.H.K. Hamilton, DSO and Bar, RN), HMS Norfolk (Capt. E.G.H. Bellars, RN), USS Tuscaloosa (Capt. L.P. Johnson, USN), USS Wichita (Capt. H.W. Hill, USN). and the destroyers HMS Somali (Capt. J.W.M ...
WICHITA's 8-inch battery crashed out at 0706, aimed at El Hank. Checking fire at 0723 when her spotting planes informed her that the French guns appeared to be silenced, the heavy cruiser shifted her 8-inch rifles in the direction of French submarines in Casablanca harbor.
Wichita was based on the design of the Brooklyn class light cruisers, with its aviation being at the stern as opposed to amidships like earlier heavy cruisers. Wichita's design was the transition to the later heavy cruisers.
