USS Savannah (CL 42) Making a full power run during trials off Rockland, Maine, in February 1938. Courtesy of Captain Church Chappell, USN (Retired), 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 82110

Curtiss SOC-3 scout-observation floatplane Stripped for maintenance in the hangar of USS Savannah (CL 42), circa 1938. The plane's engine is a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 nine-cylinder radial. Courtesy of Louis A. Davison, 1977.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph - NH 85630

USS Savannah (CL 42) Steaming at sea, circa early 1943. This photograph has been retouched by the wartime censor to remove radar antennas atop her masts and main battery gun directors. However, the radar antennas mounted on her secondary battery gun directors remain visible.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97958.

USS Savannah (CL 42) off New York City, with a barge and tug alongside, 1 May 1943.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-44025.

Algiers, Algeria - Two "Liberty" ships afire in Algiers harbor, following a German air attack, 16 July 1943. USS Savannah (CL 42) is in the foreground.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-K-3965.

USS Savannah (CL 42) Is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. The bomb hit the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret and penetrated deep into her hull before exploding. The photograph shows the explosion venting through the top of the turret and also through Savannah's hull below the waterline. A motor torpedo boat (PT) is passing by in the foreground. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral H. Kent Hewett, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph NH 95562.

USS Savannah (CL 42) Afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. Smoke is pouring from the bomb impact hole atop the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives - SC 243636

USS Savannah (CL 42) Afire and beginning to settle by the bow, very soon after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. The bomb penetrated the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret, which is in the center of this photograph with smoke over it.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives - SC 364342

USS Savannah (CL 42) - Crewmen fighting fires in the ship's # 3 six-inch gun turret, after it was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. Note fully-equipped life rafts stowed atop the turret, and casualties laid out on deck alongside the # 2 turret.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-54357

USS Savannah (CL 42) - Bomb penetration hole atop her number three 6"/47 gun turret, while the ship was undergoing initial repairs off Salerno, Italy. She was hit by a German radio-controlled bomb on 11 September 1943, during the Salerno operation. Note life rafts atop the turret, one of which has been cut in two by the bomb. Also note the turret's armored faceplate. View looks forward, with number two 6"/47 gun turret in the immediate background. The original photo caption, released on 2 November 1943, reads (in part): "A round, clean hole marks the point of entry of a Nazi bomb on the cruiser Savannah. Inside, all was chaos, smoke, blood, and death."

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97959

Corpsmen attend casualties on the ship's forecastle, after a German radio-controlled bomb hit her # 3 six-inch gun turret during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Blankets cover crewmen killed when a German radio-controlled bomb hit the ship's # 3 six-inch gun turret, during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Navy Department Bureau of Ships War Damage Report No. 44-USS Savannah (CL 42), Bomb Damage Diagram from 11 September 1943 off Salerno.

USS Savannah (CL 42) Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 5 September 1944, following battle damage repairs and modernization.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97955.

USS Savannah (CL 42) Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 5 September 1944, following battle damage repairs and modernization.

BuAer photo #179299

5 September 1944 photo as rebuilt after FX-1400 guided bomb damage off Salerno. Hull is blistered up to the main deck and her former single 5"/25 guns have been replaced with twin 5"/38s. She is also fitted with a new bridge and new light weight antiaircraft guns and arrangement of those guns. The entire Brooklyn class was planned to be so modified but this was canceled at the end of the war.

U.S. Navy photo #1769-44, Buber photo #179299

USS Savannah (CL 42) Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-11, while underway off the New England coast (position 42-30N, 68-36W) on 30 October 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97956

Starboard bow view while steaming in the Savannah River, Savannah Georgia while attending Navy Day celebrations on or about 27 October 1945.

U.S. Navy photo.