U.S. cruiser Pittsborough loses bow, but weathers Pacific typhoon. The battered U.S.
U.S. cruiser Pittsborough loses bow, but weathers Pacific typhoon. The battered U.S. cruiser Pittsburgh lies in the habor at Guam, U.S. advance Pacific base, after marking a 900-mile (1,440 km.) voyage through the Pacific with her bow ripped off. A typhoon estimated at 120-knot velocity ripped 100 feet (30 meters) from the bow of the vessel, which is a unit of the U.S. Third Fleet, on June 5, 1945, ...
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