Originally Posted by KFWA
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They've been all scrapped now


ugggggh

anger building......

I hate to hear that.


Out of service yes..But not all scrapped. If you want to see a Des Moines class crusier, Salem is a Museum up in Boston. In my mind the DesMoines were the finest heavy cruisers ever built.

Fine ships, but they take such huge crews they were doomed.

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