Name This AE...356

[Brady]

???

[Hornblower]

on of the atlanta's.  one of the early abtch as ahe has the 2 beam mounted 5/38's..

[joey]

Did we have one earlier of the same location just a different angle?

[Cap Mandrake]

Looks like eucalyptus in the background.

Could be San Pedro (LA) or Point Loma (San Diego)...or Australia of course.

Graceful ship with her narrow beam.

[DuckofTindalos]

Always loathed the Atlantas...[:@]

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Always loathed the Atlantas...[:@]

Any particular reason[&:] True the gun layout wasn't the most effecient, and more AAA directors would have been usefull..., but "loathed" is a pretty strong term.

[Fallschirmjager]

The class had its problems but by late 1942, every problem was corrected except the issue of being top heavy. Intermediate gun support was raised to effective levels. Firing arcs and direction was significantly improved.

Their surface combat record looks poor but the sample size is also so small that it is hard to draw any sort of conclusion from that. After the Solomon’s campaign surface the prospect of surface combat was so rare that the cruisers need not worry about it.
Their record in doing the job it was designed to do is superb. When tasked as a long range screening ship for fast carrier Tfs it excelled and shot down scores of Japanese planes and broke up countless other groups so that the close in ships could finish them off.

[kaleun]

In my games the CLAAs prove particularly vulnerable to enemy aircraft attacks.[:@]

[rockmedic109]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Looks like eucalyptus in the background.

Could be San Pedro (LA) or Point Loma (San Diego)...or Australia of course.

Graceful ship with her narrow beam.

If that's eucalyptus in the background, it would have to be America. As I understand it, Eucalyptus does not grow as tall in Australia {less water}. My parents bought some Bushy Eucalyptus for their property line so they don't have to see their motel neighbors. Supposed to grow onlhy 20' high......They are well over 40' and are so thick they would qualify as a hedgerow.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: kaleun

In my games the CLAAs prove particularly vulnerable to enemy aircraft attacks.[:@]

I dont think they have much deck armor. Pair them with a CA or prewar BB. The heavier ships will attract the majority of enemy planes and not suffer such grievous injury from dive bomb or level bomber attacks. If they are in a carrier TF they will largely be ignored by attacking aircraft but will boost AAA.

You do not want CLAA's as the flagship of invasion or transport groups.

[Hornblower]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????????  After the CV's the first ships i pick for my Cv TF's are the Atlanta's.. Use them how they were intended - AA protection ..

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Hornblower

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????????  After the CV's the first ships i pick for my Cv TF's are the Atlanta's.. Use them how they were intended - AA protection ..

Agreed. That is the best place for them.

My point is you do not want them the center of attention of of dive bombers or level bombers.

[Hornblower]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Hornblower

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????????  After the CV's the first ships i pick for my Cv TF's are the Atlanta's.. Use them how they were intended - AA protection ..

Agreed. That is the best place for them.

My point is you do not want them the center of attention of of dive bombers or level bombers.

I will agree with you on that..

[DivePac88]

The trees remind me a bit of Devonport naval base in Auckland, NZ.

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: Hornblower

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ????????  After the CV's the first ships i pick for my Cv TF's are the Atlanta's.. Use them how they were intended - AA protection ..

Actually the original design specs were for a Destroyer Leader/Flagship rather than an CLAA...., which accounts for what turned out to be it's poor armament layout. Had the consideration been AAA from the start, it's much more likely that there would have been two twin turrets forward, aft, and on each side..., with each pair having it's own AAA director. Less topweight and able to engage more targets simultaniously...

[Cap Mandrake]

Somebody needs to ID the Destroyer and perhaps the cruiser on the extreme left (bow just visible) and the barge so Brady can tell us where this is.

[Cap Mandrake]

Maybe a Benson class.

[Brady]

It is,USS Cassin

It is,USS San Diego

............

Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 April 1944.

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Brady



It is,USS Cassin

It is,USS San Diego

............

Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 9 April 1944.

Discovered by the Germans in 1904. They named it San Diago, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.