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The US Navy acquired the island in 1934. It is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range, [10] and is the center of the integrated air/land/sea San Clemente Island Range Complex covering 2,620 nm 2 (8,990 km 2). During World War II, the island was a training ground for amphibious landing craft. These small to mid-sized vessels ...
Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits & Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies (The Free Press, 1987). Lange, Dorothea. Photographing the second gold rush: Dorothea Lange and the East Bay at War, 1941—1945 (Heyday Books, 1995), a primary source. Leonard, Kevin Allen. The Battle for Los Angeles: Racial Ideology and World War II (2006).
A Fletcher-class destroyer that was bombed as a target off San Clemente Island. Johanna Smith United States: 22 July 1932 A schooner that caught fire and sank off Long Beach. USS John C. Butler United States Navy: 1971 A John C. Butler-class destroyer escort that was sunk as a target off San Clemente. USS Koka United States Navy: 7 December 1937
automobile museum and communications & radio museum Balboa Island Museum: Balboa Island: Local history: operated by the Balboa Island Historical Society Bowers Museum: Santa Ana: Multiple: Orange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history ...
In 1941, the drafting department had expanded to three buildings accommodating over 400 Naval architects, engineers and draftsmen. The hospital carried 584 bed patients. Mare Island became one of the U.S. Navy's ship building sites in World War II specializing in building diesel engine powered submarines—they eventually built 32 of them ...
According to records in the Newport assessor's office, the Miramar estate consists of three properties – the mansion, a carriage house and a separate, vacant 1-acre oceanfront lot – on 7.2 ...
San Clemente Island is the southernmost Channel Island, covering 57 square miles (150 km 2). The island is approximately 21 nautical miles (39 kilometres) long and is 4.5 nmi (8.3 km) across at its widest point. It lies 55 nmi (102 km) south of Long Beach and 68 nmi (126 km) west of San Diego.
San Clemente Island viewed from a shuttle aircraft that regularly flies military and civilian personnel to the U.S. Navy-owned island, 68 miles from San Diego in 2013. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles ...