Trumpeter 05724 USS BALTIMORE CA-68 1943 WWII  [TP05724]

Length: 205.3m Beam: 21.6m Displacement: 13600t The BALTIMORE (CA-68) was launched 28 July 1942, commissioned 15 April 1943, and reported towards Pacific Fleet. Between November 1943 and June 1944 BALTIMORE was a unit associated with fire help and covering forces during the operations into the Southeast Asia. In July 1944, she embarked President Roosevelt and his party and steamed to Pearl Harbor. Returning to the war zone in November 1944, she had been assigned towards 3rd Fleet. On 26 January 1945 she joined up with the fifth Fleet on her final operations regarding the war: Honshu Island attacks; Iwo Jima procedure; while the 5th Fleet raids in support of the Okinawa procedure. Following the cessation of hostilities BALTIMORE served as a unit associated with "Magic Carpet" fleet and then as an element of the naval occupation force in Japan BALTIMORE received nine battle movie stars on her solution into the Pacific during World War II.

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