To: knighthawk
a World War II battleship From Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know...):
USS Reno (CL-96) was an updated Atlanta-class light cruiser - sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class" - designed and built to specialize in antiaircraft warfare. The USS Reno spent her entire service life in the Pacific War, and its immediate aftermath, during 1944 through 1946.
Big difference from a "battleship"...
4 posted on
06/03/2020 11:53:51 AM PDT by
Old Sarge
("Orange Man Bad - White Man Worse")
To: Old Sarge
Beat me to it...I hate sloppy reporting...
6 posted on
06/03/2020 12:00:54 PM PDT by
Fish Speaker
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Old Sarge
I was born right after WWII in a Navy town. Everyone knew battleships were named after states, cruisers after cities, destroyers after heroes and subs after fish. And of course we knew the difference between them all. But time passes and what once used to be common knowledge 'warship≠battleship' becomes a trivia knowledge item. Sad, though that the reporter wasn't interested enough to research what USS Reno was.
8 posted on
06/03/2020 12:50:44 PM PDT by
hanamizu
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