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USS Helena (CL-50) was commissioned on 18 September 1939. She was moored at the Navy Yard, inboard of USS Oglala (CM-4) on 7 December 1941. An aerial torpedo passed under Oglala and hit Helena, flooding two engine rooms. During the Guadalcanal campaig