I was just thinking, while reading and participating in this thread, about the history of the USS Augusta CA31.
When you think about it, that ship was at the focus of so much history:
In 1941, she took Roosevelt to the Atlantic Conference.
She was where Truman made the decision to actually drop the atom bomb.
In between that she was involved in the invasion of North Africa, and at the Normandie invasions.
If you want a fulll description of the career of this ship here’s a link.
Certainly, compared to other ships that have been saved as museums, I really do think that the history for which Augusta was the stage should have merited that, too.
She was scrapped in 1960.
Dammit.