by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Feature, Photos
Wishing a very happy 100th birthday to Lt. Col. John R. Stevens! We are inspired by and thankful for his service to our country and to our...
by admin | Jun 30, 2020 | Feature, Foundation News
Turning Point On March 9, 1933 San Francisco’s namesake and the second heavy cruiser to be built at Mare Island slid down the building ways. Champagne was not available due to the Prohibition, so she was christened with water from the famed Hetch-Hetchy water system....
by admin | May 16, 2019 | Feature
Friends and Families Are Encouraged To Bring Framed Photographs Each year, fewer and fewer of our Second World War survivors can join us and while they are still able, we feel fortunate to be able to honor them at this ceremony. New this year, we are encouraging...
by usssanfran | Feb 9, 2019 | Feature
One of the first Japanese battleship to be sunk by U.S. forces during World War II has been discovered in the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen. Imperial Japanese Navy ship Hiei, which sank on Nov. 14, 1942, was...
by usssanfran | May 28, 2017 | Feature
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Seventy-five years ago, the world was at war and the USS San Francisco was part of a massive naval struggle to take the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. Chief Jon “Johnny” Gordon was aboard the ship and remembers that midnight battle of 13...
by usssanfran | May 11, 2017 | Feature
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN (center) (Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas) on board USS San Francisco (CA 38) to visit the two senior ship’s officers who had survived the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-13 November 1942. Photographed at...
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