USS Columbia makes front cover of Sea Classics magazine
                                            February 2016   Vol. 49/No. 2

Front Cover:  " COLUMBIA  vs.  JAPAN
  WWll's Light Cruiser That Hit The Enemy Hard"
"THE FIGHTING COLUMBIA" 
 by  OWEN GAULT, pages 40 - 46

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The last time Columbia was in a National magazine was November 1945
 issue of  POPULAR MECHANICS.
Page 17  CRUISERS ARE A TOUGH BREED  by  Thomas E. Stimson, Jr.
Followed by pages 18 - 21.

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Columbia was also in OUR NAVY MAGAZINE
 mid Sept. 1945 issue, Page 36