Heavy cruiser USS San Francisco CA-38 fires main guns during U.S. Navy raid on Wake Island October 1943.
New Orleans-class cruiser USS San Francisco broadside, Mare Island February 1943
USS San Francisco firing on Wake Island 5 October 1943
Heavy cruiser USS San Francisco bow Mare Island February 1943
San Francisco following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 1942
USS San Francisco Mare Island February 1943
USS San Francisco at Pearl Harbor 4 December 1942
Cruiser USS San Francisco firing on Wake Island 1943
Heavy cruiser USS San Francisco CA-38 1942
The second USS San Francisco (CA-38, New Orleans-class) was laid down on 9 September 1931 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California; launched on 9 March 1933; sponsored by Miss Barbara M. Bailly; and commissioned on 10 February 1934, Capt. Royal E. Ingersoll in command.