Brooklyn (CL 40) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 In the four days from 5-9 July, a huge armada of 3266 vessels carried some 160,000 troups with their 1,008 guns, 600 tanks from Africa to Sicily on Operation Husky. The Yank soldiers, seasick in the troubled waters, moved in on the beaches of Licata, Gela and Scoglitti early on the 10th, quickly fanned out under an umbrella of fire from Naval artillery. At Licata, Rear Admiral Laurence T. DuBose in BROOKLYN directed the fire support group CBROOKLYN and BIRMINGHAM, a destroyer squadron, and other numerous American and British small craftl. Under this watchful eye, troops and supplies which had crossed the Mediterranean in landing boats poured into the beachhead. Except for the rough seas, all was going on schedule. The Gunnery Officer gave the order to commence fire at 0430 on 10 July. The Army's Third Division pushed their way inland, soon clashed head-on with determined enemy troops. Luftwaffe planes bombed and straffed the ships lying offshore and the artillery installations around Licata chimed in to complete the stentorian crescendo in this symphony of destruction. BROOKLYN fired volley after volley of devastating explosives that day. She patrolled and knocked out targets of opportunity on the 12th, and nosed cautiously through thick mine fields on the 13th to hit and land concentrations and shore installations at nearby Agrigento. Only when there were no more targets in range were her guns allowed to cool. On 14 July the cruisers BROOKLYN, BOISE and SAVANNAH left for Algiers to await further orders. Orders were received and mid-August found BROOKLYN once more relaxed and safe in New York City's mammoth harbor. While training the crews of new cruisers at Boston, BROOKLYN was ordered to return to the Mediterranean area. In her absence the wobbling Italy had bowed awkwardly out of the Axis triumvirate. And the USS SAVANNAH had taken a glider bomb through her number three turret and had all but sunk, except for the faith of her skipper in his crew. Together they sailed her to Malta for temporary repairs for her return to the U.S. The light cruiser sailed for Palermo, Sicily, on 13 September 1943 and arrived some 11 days later -. to take the place of SAVANNAH. - In Palermo on the 11th of October, Captain Robert W. Cary, USN, the Skipper of SAVANNAH when she was hit, relieved Legion of Merit winner, Captain Ziroli fawarded for his handling of BROOKLYN at Sicilyl. Captain Cary took his cruiser BROOKLYN on diversified missions in support of Allied Mediterranean operations. BROOKLYN was caught in a heavy night air attack on Allied shipping in Naples harbor on 23 October, fortunately came through without any more than a few pieces of schrapnel falling on her decks. Captain Cary's best strategy that night was to keep the larger caliber guns silent unless directly attacked so as not to reveal BROOKLYN'S presence in the harbor. . l ' ' X . s ions 'yuan o o nm , dws nl lvl nvvia A lfl ' couldn't stem the Allied tide. Somewhere off the Sicilian coast, geiyfserstgf :did explcidmg snliell' . u v i fragments till the air as Nazi planes score a direct hit on an invasion vessel. This foto was held up by Brit- ish censors. Yesterday a bitter aerial battle was being fought eye: the Italian toe wg 1,7 Axis planes were shot down. I p p V. If ,FSQW 03 page ,5 4 below, No Change, Fire for Effect below, Another Spotting Plane is launched . -V 1 T 5 'E 1 F s l I ,P 'T Hina.. sv-,gifmx 4