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Wichita again screened for the carriers, which sank or damaged several Japanese carriers. Task Force 34 was detached to finish off several of the crippled Japanese ships with gunfire; Wichita and three other cruisers sank the light carrier Chiyoda and the destroyer Hatsuzuki.
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.
USS Wichita is underway near Seidisfjord, Iceland in June 1942 as part of joint USN-RN TF99. Wichita, USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37), USS Wainwright (DD 419), and USS Rowan (DD 405) joined the British force covering approaching convoy PQ17 in July. (caption updated by John Chiquoine)
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.
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.
30 sie 2024 · USS Wichita was a unique heavy cruiser of the United States Navy built in the 1930s. The last American cruiser designed to meet the limits of the London Naval Treaty, she was originally intended to be a New Orleans -class heavy cruiser, accordingly with the maximum main armament of three triple 8-inch (203 mm) gun turrets.
22 lip 2011 · The Wichita class, only ship of its class, was the connection between the pre-war cruisers, and those built during the war. She had been conceived as another Brooklyn class ship, but her design...
