Starboard quarter view of Boise (CL 47) fitting out at Newport News, Virginia, 1 April 1937.

United States National Archives, Photo #19-N-19329

United States National Archives # NA 80-G-462977.

Starboard bow view of Boise (CL 47) fitting out at Newport News, Virginia, 1 July 1937.

United States National Archives, Photo #19-N-19327

Starboard Bow, Underway, 7 July 1938.

National Archives Image # 19-N-19153

Operating off Hawaii on 5 November 1941. The ship is wearing Measure 1 camouflage paint.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-279384.

Photographed circa late August 1942, probably at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-K-558

Seen from the island of USS Yorktown (CV 10) on 6 May 1943. A Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter is parked on the carrier's deck-edge elevator, in the foreground. Note Boise's fresh Measure 22 camouflage, and her fifteen 6"/47 guns trained on her port quarter at high elevation.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center - NH 97780.

Arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, for battle damage repairs, November 1942. She had been hit by enemy shellfire in the Battle of Cape Esperance on 12 October 1942, resulting in a large fire that burned out her three forward 6"/47 gun turrets and their ammunition spaces.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-40069.

USS Boise (CL 47) arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1942 for repair of battle damage received during the 11-12 October Battle of Cape Esperance. Note the forward 6"/47 triple gun turret trained to starboard. It was jammed in this position during the action, when a Japanese 8" shell hit the armored barbette just below the turret.

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

USS Boise (CL 47) gunfire damage diagram from 11-12 October 1942 off Savo Island.

Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Looking forward the view of the starboard side hull of the USS Boise (CL 47) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 November 1942. Visible is the dent in the armor and patch over shell hole No. 1, located at Frame 90 1/2.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Face plate Turret No. 3 damage from hit No. 3. View of starboard side looking forward showing the damage done to the main deck of the USS Boise (CL 47).

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Face plate Turret No. 3 damage from hit No. 3. View of starboard side looking forward showing the damage done to the main deck of the USS Boise (CL 47).

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

View of portions of the base of 8-inch projectile from hit No. 5, as seen on 27 November 1942. After removal from the USS Boise (CL 47) examination of the base markings and design features show that it is of English manufacture.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Fragment damage from hit No.6 to bulkhead No. 35, as seen from magazine A-507-M.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Shell fragments from hit No. 6 which exploded in Magazine A-507-M

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

View of lower handling room of turret No. 1. This shows open ends of powder hoists with powder cartridges still in hoists. Note that powder burned out of No.1 and No.2 cartridges but not No.3. No.2 cartridge was apparently forced down over No.3 by pressure from powder burning above it in the hoist.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

View of temporary patch plate on hull at Frame 17 from hit No. 7, as seen after dry docking at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 November 1942.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Location and damage to main deck from hit No. 5. at No. 1 turret barbette, as seen on 25 November 1942 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The arrow points to location where the 8-inch shell plug has been previously removed.

Source: Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 24, USS Boise (CL47) Gunfire Damage, Savo Island 11-12 October, 1942

Sailor W.R. Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the cruiser's pilothouse as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. The six Japanese ships (two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and three destroyers) represented in this scoreboard greatly overstates the actual enemy losses, which were one heavy cruiser (Furutaka) and one destroyer (Fubuki) sunk and one heavy cruiser (Aoba) badly damaged. This over-claiming was typical of contemporary night surface actions. Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, soon after Boise arrived there for battle damage repairs in November 1942.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-36299.

Hero of USS Boise Returns Home
Upon his arrival in San Francisco, Capt. E. J. ("Mike”) Moran, of the cruiser Boise, hurried to his home in San Rafael where he was greeted by his two children, Michaela, 13 (left), and Moore, 11, whom he has seen for only ten days in the last two years. Captain Moran's light cruiser settled for six Jap warships in the Solomon waters.

HONORING THE HEROES OF THE CRUISER BOISE
L. G. HARLIN DEDICATING AN HONOR PLAQUE ABOARD THE U.S.S. BOISE
The scene aboard the heroic cruiser Boise (CL 47) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard as Mr. Harlin, president of the Boise, Idaho Chamber of Commerce, dedicated that bronze plaque honoring the 107 men and officers who gave their live's when the 10,000-ton cruiser sank six Jap warships in a battle royal off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, last October. The plaque was purchased by citizens of Boise.

Aerial view taken at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 22 April 1943.

USN Photo.

Photo taken by J. R. Eyerman. TimeLife. ID: TimeLife_image_116108486 For personal non-commercial use only.

Pvt Alvin J. Goubert
PFC Ardie E. Johnston
PFC James Windham
Pvt Glen A. Harkins
Pvt George A. Cureton
Cpl James Costanza
Cpl Leon E. Dunn
Pvt T. J. Smith
Pvt John Rzukiewicz
Pvt Shirley Mc Ghee
Pvt Harry M. Kuz
Cpl Heinz Embscher (POW)
Sgt Kurt Aschenbrenner (POW)
Cpl Simon Haselbauer (POW) Cpl Jacob Heigel (POW)

More details of each person found at National Archives ID 78143885 page 32.

COMDR. WILLIAM C. BUTLER, JR., U S. N.

It will take Comdr. Butler a long time to tell his 6-year-old son Warner about all the fighting he has come through in this war from the South Pacific to the Mediterranean. The helmet the youngster wears is one of the trophies Comdr. Butler brought back from the Italian theater after he had helped keep the Yanks ashore at Salerno by directing the deadly fire of the famous cruiser Boise (CL 47) as its chief gunnery officer in those few days of inferno.
But it was back in those critical earlier days in the Solomons that Comdr. Butler won the Navy Cross for his cool and courageous share in the sharpshooting of the Boise which is credited with sinking four out of six Jap warships sunk and probably hitting the other two. It was on the black night of 11 October 1942 that as assistant gunnery officer, he helped direct from the bridge control a streaming blast of steel, more than 1,000 rounds, from the cruiser’s 5 and 6-inch guns. The Boise took it, too, in that 27-minute fight—an 8-inch shell hit that blazed her forward port and caused the other Yank ships to leave her for lost. But the tough Boise lived to pour it on the Nazis at Salerno—and Comdr. Butler again was the man behind her guns.
Central High School classmates of Comdr. Butler's 1925 graduating class recall him as the captain of its E Cadet Company that year. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1930, Comdr. Butler saw seven years of service in the China station and the Pacific and then took an ordnance post graduate course at Annapolis before being assigned to the Boise in 1939. He recently had a reunion with his wife and son here at the home of his father and mother, 3917 Kansas avenue N.W., on his return from the Mediterranean for Bureau of Ordnance duty.
This is one of a series of portraits of decorated war heroes by Newman Sudduth of The Star's art staff.

Shelling the coast of New Guinea in early 1944. Photo is dated 10 February 1944, but may have been taken during the Madang-Alexishafen bombardment of 25-26 January 1944. This view looks forward on the starboard side from the midships 20mm gun gallery. Note tracers, which appear several feet in front of gun muzzles. Those from the four starboard side 5"/25 guns have a higher trajectory than the tracers fired from the forward 6"/47 gun turrets. Tracers from the 6-inch guns appear to wobble slightly.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-213844.

Bombarding the Galela sector of Halmahera Island during the Morotai invasion, 15 September 1944. This view looks forward on the port side from the midships 20mm gun gallery. Guns in the foreground are 5"/25s. This firing is being done by the forward 6"/47 gun turrets. Note ammunition passing party at work in the lower right.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-301528.

Photo from the MacArthur Library and Museum.

WHEN Commodore E. J. Moran was skipper of Boise (CL 47) he directed his light cruiser and its complement of brave men in an attack which cost the Jap fleet six warships in Solomons action. Though badly damaged the Boise rejoined sister ships. Moran, who wears Navy Cross, is sketched above as a captain.

Off San Pedro, California, 14 September 1945, following overhaul.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives - 19-N-89077.

USS Boise Arrives in New York Harbor on 20 October 1945, to participate in the Navy Day Fleet Review. The south end of Manhattan Island is in the background.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-K-6562.

U.S. Army Private First Class Felix A. Uva (left) and Corporal Donald A. Purdy examine a memorial plaque on the cruiser's main deck, while they were being transported to the United States from Europe as part of Operation "Magic Carpet" in November 1945. This plaque was presented to the ship by the citizens of Boise, Idaho, in memory of the 107 crewmembers who lost their lives in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. Note kapok life jackets worn by the Soldiers.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-701627.

USS Boise at anchor, on 26 December 1945. Photo courtesy of L & L Ginderen

"Flag of Argentina is raised to fly side by side with the Stars and Stripes as the USS Boise is transferred to the South American republic in a ceremony at the Naval Base. The warship will be renamed "9 de Julio". The date commemorates Argentina's first act of independence on July 9, 1810."

Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center

Starboard side view of Nueve De Julio (ex-USS Boise), circa 1964, location unknown. Note the sail boats aft.

Official Argentine Navy Photo.

09/25/1943 - 11/28/1944