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| Keywords: USS Milwaukee (CL-5) being returned from the USSR in 1949.jpg The light cruiser USS Milwaukee CL-5 being returned to the U S Navy on 16 March 1949 The Soviet crew boarded the passenger ship Molotov visible alongside <br> Milwaukee had been loaned to the USSR in lieu of Italian ships allotted after the Italian surrender that could not be delivered On 20 April 1944 she was commissioned in the Soviet Navy as Murmansk and performed convoy and patrol duty in the Arctic Ocean for the remainder of the Second World War Afterward she became a training ship and participated in the 1948 fleet maneuvers The Soviets returned the ship on 16 March 1949 and Milwaukee was sold for scrap to American Shipbreakers in Wilmington Delaware USA on 10 December http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194905 pdf May 1949 p 36 1949 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Milwaukee CL-5 | ||||
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