Thankfully, all of them but one missed and the one that managed to hit the ship failed to detonate when it smashed the crane of the ship. While the Yak-9 and Il-2 were initially identified as friendlies by the anchored cruiser, it quickly turned out that they very much weren’t when they dropped 4 bombs on the ship. She came very close to being heavily damaged when, on the 17th of September 1950, North Korean aircrafts targeted the ship. While her early career was very quiet, the ship would play an active role in the Korean War, supporting ground units by blazing her 203 mm and 127 mm guns on Korean forces.
The ship was laid down in May 1944, launched in August 1945 and commissioned in December 1946. USS Rochester was an Oregon City-class heavy cruiser from the U.S.
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