AMERICAN FLEET
VISIT TO AUCKLAND. Six modern vessels of the United States Pacific Fleet will arrive at Auckland this afternoon, and will remain in nort until Thursday. This announcement was made by the Prime Minister (Right Hon. P. Fraser) yesterday. The squadron consists of the cruisers Brooklyn and Savannah and the destroyers Case, Shaw, Cummings, and Tucker. Captain E. S. Stone, United States Navy, commands the squadron, his flagship being the Brooklyn.
It is officially announced that the visit is an informal one in the course of a training cruise, and has followed a request by the United States Government for permission to include New Zealand in the itinerary.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4403, 17 March 1941, Page 4
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