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In the series of photos of the New Mexico class BBs at Norfolk taken from 31 Dec 1941 to 3 Jan 1942, there is one in particular that puzzles me... ( http: //www.navsource.org/archives/01/014251.jpg ) In the background of this superstructure shot of Idaho is the stern of a Brooklyn class CL, but I don't know which one. I think it must be Savannah, because the Measure 12 modified camouflage pattern doesn't match Brooklyn, Philadelphia or Nashville, but I can't confirm this with photo evidence of Savannah wearing Ms 12 mod. (All of the other Brooklyns were in the Pacific)
Here's what I mean:
Idaho: (the photo in question - look in the background)
http: //www.navsource.org/archives/01/014251.jpg
Brooklyn:
http: //www.navsource.org/archives/04/040/0404002.jpg
Nashville:
http: //www.navsource.org/archives/04/043/0404316.jpg
Philadelphia:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/imag ... h90213.jpgThe accompanying text to the Navsource photo agrees with my supposition (it was added 2/11/09):
The ship in the left background is definitely a Brooklyn class (CL-40 / 49). (which one I can't say, and I looked at our photos and those on NavSource cruiser pages without any luck, but the ship has to be Brooklyn (CL-40), Philadelphia (CL-41), Savannah (CL-42) or Nashville (CL-43), since the other ships of the type were in the Pacific at the time.
My money would be on it being Savannah based on the camouflage. Photos of the other Atlantic Brooklyns taken in the spring of 1942 show them wearing a modified Measure 12 camo but the scallops of the lighter gray along top of the hull are all much deeper than depicted in this photo. I have not found any photo of Savannah wearing this camo dated around the time of the Norfolk photo be it does not stretch credulity too much to believe if the other 3 Atlantic Fleet Brooklyns are all wearing Measure 12 during this time then the Savannah would be also and as the pattern in this photo does not match any of the other 3 ships ergo... The problem with this line of reasoning - DNFS put the Savannah in Recife, Brazil 10 days after the date cited on the photo although a similar problem exists for all the Atlantic Brooklyns. (Text i.d. courtesy of Charles Haberlein Jr. (USNHC) & Chris Hoehn.) Can anyone confirm
for sure that this is actually Savannah?
Thanks!!
Don Andrews