美盐湖城号重巡击沉始末
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中文翻译：
我不 通常我不会拍摄战后的照片，但因为我喜欢海军舰艇，所以我对它们在战后的结局很感兴趣。
像战争结束时的许多战舰一样，美国盐湖城CA-25几乎立即被取消使用。她最初被命令在10月份抵达西海岸后，向第三舰队司令报告退役。然而，10月29日，她被转移到“魔法地毯行动”中，将太平洋战区的老兵送回美国。
11月14日，她被列入在比基尼环礁进行的“十字路口行动“、“原子弹试验和评估试验“的试验舰名单。1946年3月，在驶往珍珠港之前，她被部分剥光，船员也减少了。
在7月1日的一次空中原子弹爆炸试验和7月25日的第二次地下爆炸试验中，利用盐湖城对水面船只的影响进行了评估。在两次原子弹爆炸中幸存下来后，她于8月29日退役，并准备等待最终处置。1948年5月25日，被击沉为目标船体，距南加州海岸130英里（110海里；210公里），1948年6月18日被海军船只注册处击沉。
约翰·弗洛里亚
《生活》杂志
原文：
I don’t normally do post-war images, but since I like navy ships, how they ended up after the war interests me.
Like many warships at the close of the war, The USS Salt Lake City CA-25 was almost immediately slated for deactivation. She was originally ordered to report to Commander, 3rd Fleet, upon arrival on the west coast, in October, for deactivation. On 29 October, however, she was diverted to Operation Magic Carpet duty to return veterans of the Pacific theater to the U.S.
On 14 November, she was added to the list of warships to be used as test vessels for Operation Crossroads, the Atomic Bomb Experiments and Evaluation Tests at Bikini Atoll. She was partially stripped and her crew reduced prior to sailing to Pearl Harbor in March 1946.
Salt Lake City was used in evaluating the effects on surface vessels during an initial test with an aerial atomic bomb burst on 1 July and during the second test of a subsurface burst on 25 July. Surviving two atomic bomb blasts, she was decommissioned on 29 August and laid up to await ultimate disposal. She was sunk as a target hull on 25 May 1948, 130 mi (110 nmi; 210 km) off the coast of Southern California and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 June 1948.
John Florea
LIFE Magazine
