USS Columbia (CL-56)
Date: January 3 1945
Location: Surigao Strait, Phillippine Islands
Source: Nobe Smith - Atlantic Fleet Sales
U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98064
NavSource: USS Columbia (CL 56) steaming with Task Force 77.4 in Surigao Strait, Philippine Islands, on 3 January 1945 while en route to the Lingayen Gulf landings. Photographed from USS Makin Island (CVE 93). Columbia is painted in camouflage Measure 33 Design 1d.
