This is a picture of USS CHICAGO on the start of her first shakedown cruise as it leaves San Francisco for the first time. Sailing majestically on her way to becoming the histories most powerful and greatest cruiser. Her searvice in Viet Nam showing more than just the average ability to prove to the world she was a ship of the line. She would become the flagship for a number of admirals as she headed many crusier destroyer task forces.

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