USS San Francisco Memorial

The USS San Francisco Memorial is a war memorial installed in San Francisco's Lands End, in the U.S. state of California.[1][2] The memorial has a plaque commemorating the approximately 100 sailors and seven Marines who died aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco.[3][4]

The memorial in 2018

References
  1. "In World War II, San Francisco's namesake ship was a Navy hero". SFChronicle.com. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  2. https://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/lands-end-san-francisco-may-28-2012.html
  3. "How SF's namesake ship survived a World War II 'suicide' mission". SFChronicle.com. 2018-06-09. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  4. https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/upload/USS_San_Francisco_sr_2014.pdf


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