CFS Macro – USS Nashville – Brooklyn-class cruiser. CFS Version of a WWII ship. USS Nashville (CL-43), was a Brooklyn-class light cruiser, was laid down on 24 January 1935 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey; launched on 2 October 1937. On 1942, she rendezvoused with Hornet, escorting the carrier to 500 mi (800 km) from Japan, during the Doolittle raid. In this mission, a japanese picket boat was then sunk by gunfire from Nashville. Also view action in the Aleutians, Guadalcanal, New Guinea, and she carried General MacArthur on his return to the Philippines, for which she sailed from Manus on 16 October 1944. On 13 December 1944, she was struck by a kamikaze off Negros Island. The aircraft crashed into her port 5 in/127mm gun mount, with both bombs exploding about 10 ft (3 m) off her deck. Gasoline fires and exploding ammunition made her midships area an inferno, but although 133 sailors were killed and 190 wounded, her remaining 5 in (127 mm) guns continued to provide anti-aircraft fire. Decommissioned on 24 June 1946, she remained in reserve until 1950. After an overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, she was sold to Chile on 9 January 1951, and she served in the Chilean Navy as Chilean cruiser Capitán Prat (CL-03) until 1982, upgraded with helipad, missile launchers an new advanced electronic, before the Beagle Crisis in 1978.
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