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"Top Secret" unknown missions, many without other boats in support, were becoming uncomfortably familiar for the crew of the USS Nashville CL43. It started such as a Hollywood thriller, secretly transporting from England $25 million in United kingdom gold bullion, delivered to the ship in unguarded loaf of bread pickup trucks, a pre-war "Neutrality Patrol" that really was an unofficial hostile search for the way bigger and more powerful German battleship Prinz Eugen, and sneaking through the Panama Canal at night with the ship's name and hull number protected for secrecy. Now, with the ship bulging with an unusual load of energy and supplies, together with a large fleet quietly moving under San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the crew was going to observe their latest (however, not last) and most improbable trip yet as the captain made an announcement that could change the battle and their lives permanently: "We will Tokyo!" Over 3 years, scores of battles and thousands of ocean kilometers later, the Nashville and her crew had attained 10 Battle Superstars, offered from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific, from the Aleutians to the Yangtze River, as McArthur's flagship and experienced heavy casualties from a damaging kamikaze attack. Tokyo Rose reported her sunk, frequently.
