![]() ![]() Plus the cruisers Helena and Macon, and 15 destroyers and six destroyer escorts, and two attack transports and one submarine chaser and two submarine tenders and 15 submarines 47 U.S. The venerable battleship New York was making its final appearance before retirement, after fighting in both world wars. The light cruiser Boise was renowned as the “one-ship task force” of the Pacific. The heavy cruiser Augusta had carried Franklin Roosevelt to the Atlantic Conference off Newfoundland and Harry Truman to Europe for Potsdam. Here was the newly commissioned Midway, at 45,000 tons the most potent aircraft carrier ever launched, the warship of the future. Here was the fabled Big E, the carrier Enterprise, veteran of nearly every Pacific action from the Doolittle Raid to Okinawa. Here was Mighty Mo, the great battleship itself, anchored in mid-Hudson before awed onlookers lining both Manhattan and Jersey shores. Just eight weeks before, the Japanese Empire had formally surrendered in Tokyo Bay aboard the Missouri. It was Saturday the 27th of October 1945. Navy invincibility, sailing up the Hudson. We already knew that America was the mightiest power on Earth, ever.īut here was the cold gray physical evidence of U.S.
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