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USS San Francisco (CL/CA-38), a New Orleans-class cruiser, was the second ship of three of the United States Navy named after the city of San Francisco, California. Commissioned in 1934, she was one of the most decorated ships of World War II , earning 17 battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation .
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack. [1] [2] [3] [4]
On the night of July 17, 1944, an explosion with nearly the force of an atomic bomb ripped through the Port Chicago Naval Magazine north of San Francisco, destroying two ships and a train and ...
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California, located on 638 acres (258 ha) of waterfront at Hunters Point in the southeast corner of the city. Originally, Hunters Point was a commercial shipyard established in 1870, consisting of two graving docks .
Fort Point - San Francisco - example of a mid-1800s Third System fort Damaged wall - Fort Pulaski on the coast of Georgia Civil War 10-inch Rodman gun at Fort Knox (Maine) In 1816, following the War of 1812, Congress appropriated over $800,000 for an ambitious seacoast defensive system which was known as the Third System.
The San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard was a short-lived shipyard formed in 1965 with the combination of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The combined yards were the largest naval shipyard in the world, but the desired cost savings did not materialize, and the two yards reverted to separate management in ...
At the height of the violent battle, the battleship Hiei came through the darkness and both ships headed at full speed for the same spot. [2] They missed colliding by 20 feet (6 m). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Laffey unleashed her torpedoes and, using all her firepower, raked the battleship's bridge, [ 2 ] wounding Admiral Abe, and killing his chief of ...
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