Emerging from fog banks, the First Fleet enters San Francisco Bay in this January 1960 All Hands photo spread. In line are USS Midway (CVA-41), USS Kearsarge (CVA-33), and USS Hancock (CVA-19) passing under the Bay Bridge. The First Fleet, headquartered at Pearl Harbor, was responsible for the eastern Pacific at a time when carrier aviation remained central to the Navy’s conventional and nuclear strike posture.
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