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BATTLE RECORD AND HISTORY OF THE U.S.S. COLUMBIA
1942-1945
(Baltimore) Published by the Officers and Men Who Fought With Her... (1946)
200.00
Condition for this book is better than good but not quite very good, with some wear to the covers, some edge wear to the book, some wear to the spine ends, a bit of soiling to the pictorial onlay on the front cover.
87 pages with photos.
87 pages with photos.
Cloth with embossed titles and pictorial onlay, size is 8" x 10 1/2".
The ship, the sixth US Navy ship to bear the name, was named for the city of Columbia, South Carolina. Columbia was commissioned in July 1942, and saw service in several campaigns in the Pacific. Like almost all her sister ships, she was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war, and never saw active service again. Columbia was scrapped in the early 1960s. A memorial to the ship and crew who served on her exists in Columbia." [Wikipedia]
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