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USS Wichita adalah kapal penjelajah berat yang sangat unik milik Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat yang dibangun pada tahun 1930-an. Ia merupakan kapal penjelajah Amerika Serikat terakhir yang memenuhi ketentuan Traktat Angkatan Laut London. Pada awalnya kapal ini dimasukkan ke penjelajah berat kelas New Orleans, sesuai dengan persenjataan utama maksimum tiga turret 203mm. Namun karena memiliki lambung dari penjelajah ringan kelas Brooklyn, dengan peningkatan pelindung yanglebih berat.
Dibangun di Philadelphia Naval Shipyard di Oktober 1935, diluncurkan pada November 1937, dan ditugaskan pada US Navy di Februari 1939. Ia pertama kali bertugas pada pengawalan konvoi Murmansk Run awal 1942, mendukung pendaratan amfibi pada Operasi Obor November 1942, dan menjadi peran penting dalam penenggelaman kapal induk Chiyoda.
Referensi
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Gardiner, Robert; Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1922–1946. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-913-8.
Garfield, Brian (1995). The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks, AK: University of Alaska Press. ISBN 0-912006-83-8.
Hammond, James W. (2001). The Treaty Navy: The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars. Victoria, BC: US Trafford. ISBN 1-55212-876-8.
O'Hara, Vincent P. (2007). The U.S. Navy Against the Axis: Surface Combat, 1941–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-650-6.
Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
Sloan, Bill (2008). The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945—The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9247-4.
Terzibaschitsch, Stefan (1984). Cruisers of the US Navy 1922–1962. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-974-X.
Tomblin, Barbara (2004). With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2338-0.
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