on 5 February, Raleigh returned to Puget Sound Navy Yard on 1 March for a three-month overhaul. Joining TF 94 at Massacre Bay in the Kurile Islands on 6 June, she suffered a casualty to her number two main engine while en route to Matsuwa Island. After repairs at Puget Sound, Raleigh departed Seattle on 22 June 1945, touched at San Pedro, California, thence proceeded via the Panama Canal to Hampton Roads and then to her new home port of Norfolk, Virginia. Calling at Annapolis, Maryland, on 1 July 1945, she conducted two midshipman training cruises, in the Caribbean and along the east coast. Fate Raleigh entered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 September 1945, was decommissioned there on 2 November, and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 November. Her hulk was sold for scrap at Philadelphia on 27 February 1946. Notable commanders Awards American Defense Service Medal with "FLEET" clasp American Campaign Medal Asiatic–Pacific Campaign Medal with three battle stars World War II Victory Medal References Bibliography External links Naval History & Heritage Command: USS Raleigh (CL-7), 1924–1946 Ship's War Damage Report December 7th 1941 USS Raleigh, Report of Pearl Harbor Attack Omaha-class cruisers Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts 1922 ships World War II cruisers of the United States Ships present during the attack on Pearl Harbor Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign