USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Pensacola (CA-24) and USS New Orleans (CA-32) (listed from left to right)nested together at Pearl Harbor, 31 October 1943 after completion of repairs.The USS New Orleans had her bow ripped off from the second turret forward in the Battle of Tassafaronga.Note radar antennas, gun directors and eight-inch guns on these three heavy cruisers.

Heavy cruisers

Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 USS Minneapolis (CA-36) at Tulagi with torpedo damage received in the battle. Photograph was taken on 1 December 1942, as work began to cut away the wreckage of her bow.(rudeerude)

USS Minneapolis bow damaged

Robert Montgomery, in 1940 a volunteer ambulance driver in France with the American Field Service, won a Navy commission, rose to the rank of lieutenant commander, saw action in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean.  After six months at Guadalcanal, he fought in the Kula Gulf Battle, commanded a destroyer during the invasion of France.