This item has been discontinued.USS Brooklyn, name ship of a class of seven 9700-ton light cruisers, was built at the New York Navy Yard. Commissioned in late September 1937, she operated in the western Atlantic area for the first two years of her career. During this time, she participated in the New York World's Fair in the spring of 1939 and served as base ship during initial rescue and salvage operations on the sunken submarine Squalus in late May and early June 1939. Brooklyn was then transferred to the Pacific. She cruised to the south Pacific in March 1941 and was sent back to the Atlantic a few months later. For the rest of the year she made Neutrality Patrols, supported the occupation of Iceland in July, took part in Neutrality Patrols and participated in the "short of war" operations that accompanied the steadily worsening relations between the United States and Germany.
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