Louisville (CA 28) - Naval Cruise Book

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l l When the big 8-inch guns pause in their The port battery opens first. Guns are reloaded while hotshellmen dispose of cases. firing the 5-inch hammer away at enemy. Meanwhile the starboard battery impatiently awaits its turn to unleash pent-up might. a l TWO quick buzzer Wal'I1iUgS and-Wham! MRCSHIHC Hreln and Secondary battery This is continued till the word aCheck iirev The Whig shots are at it again up forward. loads, fires, reloads, and fires again. is given yvhilg a negv target is found, l AA ersonnel stand h for lan att k . A th ' ' , P Y P C QC S U0 el' CPUISCI' QIVCS em hell. A fat BB astern of us opens up. A destroyer rushes in fora closer shot. l 100 l l l l I 4 xZ7!'95VT9Y iiT'ef ' s -- ' e .. on ' ' A .. , ,.

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1 ,, -K, if ,lfjfi , r - 'A 5 'A tif - .. W 'ff 'W ff f 1- ' ,,, g ggi W , A, fe ?'y' 1? ,,f f XVII, 'fy' 1 I WWWWZI, .X 1---, 'T n Q f out - ' Q f- , k , ,7 T T 7'L'54g,fi'j1 -jif . f' ' A NEW ERA had opened in the Louisville? life. We had become the power behind the blow which was to put troops ashore in most of the remaining great invasions of the Paciiic war. The Aleutians Leading the way in that important task were the invasions of Attu and Kiska, of the fog-shrouded Aleutian Chain. The ,laps had landed on the American islands in the early months of the war as a threat to our homeland. Their advance along the island chain had been stayed. We were to take back the ground they had occupied. irst invasions Snugly bound in winter clothing, we arrived in the Aleutians April 25, 1943, and were welcomed to Task Force 16 by Vice Admiral Kinkaid. We took upimme- diate patrol of Attu, feeling our way through the fog and cold of the northern Then on May ll came the awaited invasion of the island. Forming a protec- tive screen to the west, the Louisville took up a patrol carrying her as far north as Komandorskie lsland. While we protected the inner transports from attack by enemy ships, our radio boomed out news of the invasion from the Hair co-ordinatorn then flying over the Held of action. Although Attu was soon secured, and the Japanese threat to our northern de- fenses blunted, Task Force 16 maintained its patrols. The tense situation in that part of the world precluded thoughts of relaxation. We had just completed three pre-invasion bombardments of Kiska when , SALVO AFTER SALVO OUR NINE BIG UUN5 UUKL DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AT JAP-HELD GARRISON 99

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FLEET UNITS IN ADAK HARBOR Flounrlering through formidable seas the frames of the Louisville and Indianapolis take a terrific beating. One wave took off a hangar door. The last photo substantiates the extremity of roll. 101