A magnificent image of the 11.500-ton cruiser USS California (CGN-36) late in her career, with Japan’s Fujisan in the background.
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Check out this magnificent image of the 11.500-ton cruiser USS California (CGN-36) late in her career, with Japan’s Fujisan in the background. Commissioned 50 years ago today on 16 February 1…

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In the late 1950s, the U.S. Navy commissioned two classes of what were termed at the time, Destroyer Leaders, a type of “super destroyer” larger than the late-WWII designed Gearing-clas…