Colour Picture of USS Honolulu (CL-48), Spring 1944

Colour Picture of USS Honolulu (CL-48), Spring 1944
This wartime colour photo graph shows the Brooklyn class light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48), in an angular camouflage pattern, some time in the spring of 1944.
US Navy Light Cruisers 1941-45, Mark Stille. Covers the five classes of US Navy light cruisers that saw service during the Second World War, with sections on their design, weaponry, radar, combat experience. Nicely organised, with the wartime service records separated out from the main text, so that the design history of the light cruisers flows nicely. Interesting to see how new roles had to be found for them, after other technology replaced them as reconnaissance aircraft [read full review]
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (2 January 2017), Colour Picture of USS Honolulu (CL-48), Spring 1944 , http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_USS_Honolulu_CL-48_colour.html

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