from Freedom, ME. Blue photo of ship printed on cachet 

#2905 by Alvin Eckert USCS #9964  Cover franked with a 29 cent Pearl Harbor Attack

stamp # 2559i and a 63 cent flag stamp #5788 (FDOI).

The Pearl Harbor Attack stamps currently cost over $3 each.

The USS San Francisco a 588 foot New Orleans Class heavy cruiser built at

Mare island and commissioned on 10 February 1934, named for the City of San Francisco.

She was serving with the Pacific Fleet until 1939 when she joined the Atlantic Fleet

for neutrality patrols. USS San Francisco returned to the Pacific in 1940 was 

preparing for repairs. She had dismantled guns, in the Pearl Harbor Shipyard,

when the 7 December enemy attack started. Her crew was only able to fire at the

enemy planes with small arms. Undamaged, the vessel escorted a convoy

to Wake Island on 14 December 1941, and sailed to on to Midway Island.

The proud ship earned seventeen WWII Battle Stars in the Pacific Theater.

Her most famous fight was in the Guadalcanal area Battle of Espirto Santo

where she took 45 large caliber hits from enemy battleships and cruisers, and

earned a Presidential Unit Citation.

Seller has over 90 different covers for ships attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

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These items make fine USN gifts when mounted on a colored matte

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