How about this great action shot, 80 years ago today. A smoke ring is left by 6″/47 (15.2 cm) Mark 16 Turret #1 as the brand new Cleveland class light cruiser USS Miami (CL-89) pounds the Palau islands on 7 September 1944.
Note that a wartime censor has obliterated her SK and Mk 37s Mk 4 radar. NHHC 80-G-284070
She would fire a very exact 900 6-inch (her magazines only had space for 2,400) and a matching 900 5-inch shells that day in just over four hours across two runs just offshore, targeting Japanese airfields, with shots corrected by her floatplanes.
Commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 28 December 1943, by June 1944 Miami was supporting fast carrier task forces and found herself in the above image as part of TG 34.6 in support of carrier strikes against Peleliu, Ngesebus, and Angaur in the Palau Islands.
She alternated her bombardment with her accompanying sisters USS Vincennes (CL-64) and Houston (CL-81).
From her 10-page report on the gun action:
Miami received six battle stars for her service in World War II and immediately after operated on the California coast training naval reservists until her decommissioning on 30 June 1947, whereupon she entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
Miami’s name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1961 and her hulk was sold for scrapping the next year.
Her name was recycled for a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine (SSN-755) commissioned in 1990 and decommissioned in 2014. The fourth USS Miami (SSN-811) will be a future Block V Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine that was ordered in 2021.