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When Japanese sailors heard her guns, they thought Americans had invented an automatic cannon. They were half right.
USS Helena could fire 150 shells per minute. The enemy called her 'Machine Gun.'
She survived a torpedo at Pearl Harbor that was meant for a battleship. She returned to the Pacific not as a victim, but as a hunter. At Cape Esperance, she killed a Japanese admiral who died believing his own ships had betrayed him. He never knew Americans were even there.
This is the story of 868 men who turned a wounded cruiser into the most feared ship in the Solomons, a vessel so relentless that her guns kept firing even as she sank beneath the waves.
They called her Machine Gun. She earned that name in blood.

📚 Based on US Navy action reports, survivor accounts, and combat records from 1941-1943.