file created: 12/07/02 01:00:09 , last update: 07/25/02
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CL-96 Reno
United States Navy antiaircraft light cruiser
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Oakland 1941/08/12
Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Cal.
1942/12/23 1943/12/28 1962/03/22
scrap
Namesake:
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 43-45: Ms 33/24d


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
44/04/14 44/04/2?     sail from San Francisco to P.H.   66 
44/05/03 44/05/08     sail from P.H. to Majuro   81 
44/05/15 44/05/30   58.6 raid -Wake & Marcus   66 
44/06/06 44/08/11 Forage 58.3    
44/06/19   Forage 58.3 xPhilip  
44/08/09 44/08/11     Eniwetok   88 
44/08/26 44/11/27 King2 38.3/CruDiv13    
44/10/14   King2 38.3/CruDiv13 damage(IJNAF plane crash) off Formosa  
44/10/24   King2 38.3/CruDiv13 xLeyte -finishing Princeton  
44/10/24 44/10/26 King2 38.3/CruDiv13 xLeyte  
44/11/03   King2 38.3/CruDiv13 disable(I-41) off San Bernardino Strait (13-46N, 131-27E)  
44/11/03 44/11/10     towed to Ulithi  
44/11/10 45/??     Ulithi - temporary repairs   66 
45/03/22 45/10     ChNY - repiars  
46/11/04       decomm  

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1949/03/18 > CLAA-96, 1959/03/01 struck from Navy List
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 3 Battle Stars
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