Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo # NH 95562:  USS Savannah is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, 11 September 1943

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Savannah (CL-42), 1938-1960 --
Damaged by German Bomb, 11 September 1943


This page features views of damage inflicted on USS Savannah by a German radio-controlled bomb during the Salerno operation.

For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Savannah (CL-42), 1938-1960.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 95562

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Is hit by a German radio-controlled bomb, while supporting Allied forces ashore during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943. The bomb hit the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret and penetrated deep into her hull before exploding. The photograph shows the explosion venting through the top of the turret and also through Savannah's hull below the waterline.
    A motor torpedo boat (PT) is passing by in the foreground.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral H. Kent Hewett, USN.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 575 pixels

     
    Photo #: SC 243636

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.
    Smoke is pouring from the bomb's impact hole atop the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret.

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: SC 364342

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Afire and beginning to settle by the bow, very soon after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.
    The bomb penetrated the top of the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret, which is in the center of this photograph with smoke over it.

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-54357

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Crewmen fighting fires in the ship's # 3 six-inch gun turret, after it was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.
    Note fully-equipped life rafts stowed atop the turret, and casualties laid out on deck alongside the # 2 turret.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-54355

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Corpsmen attend casualties on the ship's forecastle, after a German radio-controlled bomb hit her # 3 six-inch gun turret during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-54353

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Blankets cover crewmen killed when a German radio-controlled bomb hit the ship's # 3 six-inch gun turret, during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 97959

    USS Savannah (CL-42)


    Bomb penetration hole atop her number three 6"/47 gun turret, while the ship was undergoing initial repairs off Salerno, Italy.
    She was hit by a German radio-controlled bomb on 11 September 1943, during the Salerno operation.
    Note life rafts atop the turret, one of which has been cut in two by the bomb. Also note the turret's armored faceplate.
    View looks forward, with number two 6"/47 gun turret in the immediate background.
    The original photo caption, released on 2 November 1943, reads (in part): "A round, clean hole marks the point of entry of a Nazi bomb on the cruiser Savannah. Inside, all was chaos, smoke, blood, and death."

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    For other images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Savannah (CL-42), 1938-1960.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    Page made 7 May 2002