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of the USS San Francisco Memorial Foundation
Annual Memorial Event Cancelled Due To Corona Virus
Dear Friends, Board Members, Supporters, and Honored Veterans I and the Board of the USS San Francisco Memorial have decided to cancel this year's Memorial Event in light of the health emergency that affects us all. We know that our mission as responsible citizens is...
Annual Memorial Ceremony This Sunday, May 26th
A turning point in the Battle for the Pacific, Guadalcanal marked the end of the southern march of Imperial Japanese forces towards the resource rich continent of Australia. This was a hard-fought campaign with great losses on both sides, and the sacrifices of the men...
New ‘Table of Honor’ At This Year’s Memorial
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...
Japanese Battleship Sunk by U.S.S. San Francisco CA-38 Found
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,...
KCBS TV: Mourners Remember War Dead On The USS San Francisco
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...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
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 Pearl...
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