U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre

U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre, CL 103, was a 10,000-ton Cleveland Class cruiser launched on December 24, 1943, commissioned on July 1, 1944, and attached to the Pacific Fleet's Cruiser Division Seventeen. As part of Task Force 18 of the Third Fleet, it took part in bombardments against the enemy at French Indo-China, China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japan. During the Okinawa Campaign, U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre aided the stricken carrier U.S.S. Bunker Hill and gained credit for saving the carrier. It received word of the enemy surrender while off Hokkaido and entered Tokyo Bay to cover the landing of American troops. U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre was decommissioned on October 9, 1947.

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania · United States