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enemy. With these the ideols, the USS Boston CCA-697 wos commissioned in I9-43. The world situotion did not ol- low for lengthy shokedown cruises, so o short time ofter commissioning the heovy cruiser wos troversing the bright blue of the disquiet Pocific, destined to prove her worth within months of being commissioned. During o brisk Morch ofternoon, cis o member of the fomous Tosk Force 58, the KCA-691 sighted o group of Jop- onese torpedo plones. The Boston flexed her AA bottery ond one of the plones wos downed. ln the following weeks the gunners hod other opportuni- ties to prove their mettle. One such cose wos o Joponese Komikcuze piIot's ottempt to strike the USS Yorktown. The Boston's AA bottery poured forth on owesome borroge ond the Joponese oircroft smocked the seo, well short of her torget. The moin bottery hod been little but enthusiostic bystonders until the next doy when they proved their worth. The Boston orrived off the coost of Sotowon, ond her big guns threw five ond eight inch shells into the islond where they found their mork, leoving instollotions ofire. These were the events thot were to be repeoted often os the Boston lent the CA 69 IN BATTLE GRAY QEWN , fs ropid support of her AA guns ond power of her moin bottery to the fleet opero- tions off the Morsholl lslonds, Mori- onos, lowo Jimo, Philippines, ond Ok- inowo. Then in the foteful summer of l945, the Boston cinchored in Tokyo Boy, her ribbon debecked soilors ond officers proudly finishing the wor in the enemy's front yord. In l946, Boston begon o well eorned rest in mothbolls ot the Puget Sound Novy Yord, Bremer- ton, Woshington. Such wos the end of the Boston os the CA-69, but following the end of World Wor ll the philosophy of how to keep the peoce wos such thot it would bring the cruiser ogoin into importonce. The philosophy wos: Mointoin o more pow- erful force thon o p-otentiol enemy ond he sholl keep his ontogonism in relotive hibernotion. Meonwhile, the moderni- zotion of combotont weopons hod been
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