USA / DEFENCE: American warship USS Salt Lake City is decommissioned (1948)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit The heavy cruiser is used as a test vessel and sunk as a target hull after US Naval bombings and submarine torpedos Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Pacific War Veteran Has Final Battering USA: California: EXT AMERICAN NAVAL . Salt Lake City acts as target for First task Force off Californian coast. Seen disappearing beneath surface after two torpedoes strike TORPEDOES Two torpedoes despatched at U.S. Ship Salt Lake City during exercises by First Task Fleet off California Salt Lake City seen going down Navy - Active Swayback Maru, CA-24, peacetime, postwar, ship, United States, naval, Operation Magic Carpet, Operation Crossroads, Background: The heavy cruiser is used as a test vessel and sunk as a target hull after US Naval bombings and submarine torpedos FILM ID: VLVABSV6JWPZ82XLXNDGO2HWYMKQI To license this film