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Soon after World War I ended, a group of 40 prominent Kansas City residents formed the Liberty Memorial Association (LMA) to create a memorial to those who had served in the war. For president, they chose lumber baron and philanthropist Robert A. Long , who had personally donated a large sum of money. [ 6 ]
Pages in category "World War I battleships of the United States" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. Naval Institute Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-87021-907-8. Gibbons, Tony (1983). The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers - A Technical Directory of all the World's Capital Ships from 1860 to the Present Day. London, UK: Salamander Books Ltd. p. 272. ISBN 0-517-37810-8.
Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN [1] [2] Task Group 34.1 covering force Battleship USS Massachusetts (Capt. Whiting) Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (Capt. Low) and USS Tuscaloosa (Capt. Gillette) Destroyers USS Wainwright, USS Mayrant, USS Rhind and USS Jenkins Tanker USS Chemung Task Group 34.2 Carrier group Aircraft carrier USS Ranger (Capt. Durgin)
Task Force 34 was detached to finish off several of the crippled Japanese ships with gunfire; Wichita and three other cruisers sank the light carrier Chiyoda and the destroyer Hatsuzuki. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Wichita expended twenty-two percent of her armor-piercing rounds at the two ships, which amounted to 148 rounds at Chiyoda and 173 against ...
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Hamilton sailed for North Africa on 24 October with Rear Admiral H. K. Hewitt's Task Force 34, a part of the Allied amphibious thrust. Two weeks later, she cruised off the Moroccan coast providing antisubmarine (ASW) protection and fire support for the first waves of invasion barges as the Allies landed at Casablanca , Oran , and Algiers on 8 ...
District of Columbia War Memorial, on the National Mall; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.), in Pershing Park; World War I Memorial (Norfolk, Connecticut) World War I Memorial (Boston), Massachusetts; National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri; World War I Memorial (Atlantic City, New Jersey)