US Navy Atlanta-class Light Cruisers 1940–49
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 17 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472866523
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages48 pages
- Size 248x182x6 mm
- Weight 160 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations 687
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Short description:
A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, which found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.
MoreLong description:
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A comprehensively illustrated account of the Atlanta-class cruisers, warships that found a surprising key role in the Pacific War as the US Navy's superb antiaircraft warships.
In the late 1930s, the US Navy created a class of small, light cruisers intended as a versatile destroyer leader. The Atlantas could provide antiaircraft support, lead and launch torpedo attacks, serve as antisubmarine vessels, and outgun other light warships in a surface engagement. The wartime reality was different. In every surface action they fought, they found themselves pitted against bigger cruisers (or even battleships) instead of the destroyers they were designed to defeat.
In this book, naval historian Mark Lardas explains that despite their flaws, they proved one of the most useful warships in the US Navy: with a main battery of sixteen 5in guns, they proved to be superb antiaircraft cruisers. From the battle of Midway onwards, they protected the Navy's most valuable ships - its aircraft carriers - so effectively that later Atlantas were built to a modified design as specialist antiaircraft ships. The Navy even ordered a follow-on class postwar and considered building a ""super-Atlanta,"" armed only with heavy antiaircraft guns.
Packed with illustrations, this book examines the history, development, and modifications of these unusual warships, and their impact on the Pacific War.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Genesis
Foreign contemporaries
Design
Equipment
VARIANTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND SUBCLASSES
Oakland subclass
Juneau class
CL-154 class
Wartime modifications
OPERATIONAL HISTORY
Introduction
1941-43
1944-45
Postwar
CONCLUSION
FURTHER READING
INDEX
