USS Saint Louis CL-49 off of San Pedro, California – October 5, 1944
Her camouflage paint is Measure 32, Design 2c.
Note her three forward 6”/47 gun turrets, a characteristic of the Brooklyn-class light cruisers.
The last two of the nine Brooklyn-class cruisers, St. Louis & Helena, were highly modified from the original design with new higher pressure boilers, a machinery layout that alternated boiler & engine rooms, and improved AA armament consisting of twin 5”/38 turrets.
Note; USN Sources consider St. Louis & Helena as the St. Louis or CL-49 class of light cruisers
USS St. Louis survived WW2, and served in the Brazilian Navy as the Almirante Tamandaré from 1951 to 1976, she sank under tow to be scrapped in 1980.
USS Helena CL-50 was torpedoed and sunk in the Battle of Kula Gulf on July 6, 1943.
NARA – 19-N-72219
