USN · CA
Astoria
Photos and infoNew Orleans-class heavy cruiser. In Yorktown's screen at Midway. At Savo Island she was in the northern patrol with Quincy and Vincennes. Japanese cruisers set her on fire. Not credited to one ship. She sank that afternoon.
New Orleans classNot sunk at Midway. Wrecked at Savo Island on 9 August 1942 and sank that afternoon. One of her last shots hit a turret on Chokai.
U.S. Navy photo 80-G-K-452. USS Astoria (CA-34) and USS Minneapolis (CA-36) moored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in late June 1942 (80-G-K-452).jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Command
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-08 · in the cruiser screen; not sunk
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 · in Yorktown's screen
Battle of Savo Island
1942-08-09 · sunk that afternoon
