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| | USN Ships--USS Atlanta (CL-104, later IX-304) |
 | | USS Atlanta, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Camden, New Jersey, with her construction financed by War Bond sales in Atlanta, Georgia. |
 | | Atlanta first entered combat in late May, serving as an escort to aircraft carriers raiding enemy targets in the Ryukyu Islands and on Kyushu. |
 | | Meets with reporters from the two Atlanta, Georgia, newspapers, the "Journal" and the "Constitution", in March 1943, on the occasion of his visit to the city to climax a successful War Bond selling campaign to cover the cost of replacing the cruiser Atlanta (CL-51), sunk on 13 November 1942 off Guadalcanal. |
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