SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco treasures its naval military history and is home to the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, one of the last remaining liberty ships that sailed into harm's way to help win World War II. Now it is facing another threat -- a financial one -- and they're putting out a...
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A long-time, San Francisco tradition, theItalian Heritage Parade, formerly known as the Columbus Day Parade, starts at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday of Fleet Week, at Jefferson and Powell Streets, goes along Jefferson Street in Fisherman's Wharf, then down Columbus Avenue to Washington Square in No...
Each year on Memorial Day weekend Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion (representing the San Francisco Bay Area) host a service to honour Memorial Day in the United States. The service is usually held on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, depending on the availability of theU.S. Naval...
The Battle of Midway is considered one of the most important naval battles of World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Roland A. Franklin/Released)参考译文:2011年6月4日,海军和海军陆战队人员,以及来自大圣地亚哥地区的社区领导者们聚集在USS中途岛博物馆上,共同纪念...
Founded in 1634, the 44-acre Boston Common is the oldest public park in the country. The central park serves Boston year round and has a number of attractions such as the Frog Pond and the Parkman Bandstand and historic monuments like theRobert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial. The...
[Map] Excerpt from the 1942 United States Army Corps of Engineers map of San Francisco Bay showing the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards at Potrero Point and the Tiburon Naval Net Depot across the bay north of Bluff Point. | World War II Database
Cheryl Finnegan came to San Miguel in 2000 from San Francisco, where she had spent 14 years in the marketing department of Levi Strauss, the jeans and casual wear manufacturer. "One day I woke up and asked—Where is my passion? I had no passion," she recalls. "So I just dropped every...
USS San Francisco Memorial. USS San Francisco (CA-38), a heavy cruiser, (以舊金山命名的一艘巡洋艦)was one of the most decorated hero ships engaged in one of the most heroic and fierce naval battle in the Pacific of the Second World War. ...
“And winning a headquarters city of the Pacific meant—because San Francisco is so much smaller in land than New York—building an even more concentrated city: ‘The Ultimate Highrise.’” At the end of World War II San Francisco had only a few “skyscrapers,” but they began to multiply...