Talk:USS New Orleans (CA-32)

Objecitivy

Don't you think it's all written way too Hollywood and not really encyclopaedic style? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.78.86.155 (talk) 01:15, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Came here to say that. "The gunners topside were ducking machine gun bullets and shrapnel, training their guns by sheer guts and sweat"; "...which won the great Battle of the Coral Sea"; "New Orleans, veteran of the battle that halted Japanese expansion southward, had now played a significant role protecting her carrier in the great victory that turned back Japan's eastward movement and heavily crippled her naval air arm in a decisive battle"; and I'm only half way through the article. 155.201.35.66 (talk) 13:17, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Surviving member Arnold Edwards of Cape Girardeau, MO states the ship celebrated Mardi Gras on their way from the east to Pennsylvania. They went through the Panama Canal, stopped in New Orleans on the way the dock in Pennsylvania.

Thanks. — MrDolomite • Talk 05:32, 2 December 2021 (UTC)