![]() ![]() Illumination rounds that carried a flare that was deployed to illuminate night scenes. ![]() The AAC antiaircraft common round had a mechanical time fuze or a variable time (VT) proximity fuze. HC was a high capacity or high explosive round with a largeĪmount of explosive and a nose contact fuze. These were training rounds fired on the first shakedown cruise. BL&P were blind loaded and plugged training rounds. Most records did not indicate the type of ammunition so these are listed as "Unknown" type. ![]() The average rounds per gun in WWII was 115 for the 6"/47, 532 for the 5"/38,ġ,878 for the 40mm and 5,628 for the 20mm. The ship carried twelve 6"/47, twelve 5"/38, twenty eight 40mm and ten 20mm guns. War Diary Data 22 December 1944 to 17 October 1945 6"/47 The table shows the ammunition expenditures recorded in the ship's war diaries. ![]() The ship was involved in combat operations in June, July and August of 1945. It conducted shakedown and training cruises through June 1945 when it entered the Pacific The USS Oklahoma City CL-91 was commissioned on 22 December 1944. This complete gunfire support record for the USS Oklahoma City is available in From these records I haveĬompiled an almost complete record of the ship's gunfire missions. These areĪvailable through the US National Archives, and include all NGFS activity for all ships through the end of the Vietnam War in 1973. Starting in March 1966 the Navy began compiling Combat Naval Gunfire Support File (CONGA) records. The ship conducted NGFS missions on certain dates. After that there are no records except the note that At first gunfire mission data were recorded in theĪnnual Ship's History report, but only the first missions were recorded. Records of early gunfire missions in Vietnam are sketchy. During WWII gunfire data were reported in monthly Most of the records of the ship's gunfire missions have survived. During the Vietnam war the ship participated in naval gunfire support (NGFS) and attack missions in south and north Vietnam. It served all of theseĭuties in World War II. The USS Oklahoma City was designed with a multi-purpose gun battery capable of performing anti-ship, anti-shore and anti-aircraft roles. ![]()
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