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  2. File:The Battleground 15 Dec 1944.svg - Wikipedia

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  3. Desert Training Center - Wikipedia

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    Desert Training Center map US Army 1943. The Desert Training Center (DTC), also known as California–Arizona Maneuver Area (CAMA), was a World War II training facility established in the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert, largely in Southern California and Western Arizona in 1942.

  4. California during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2002). Verge, Arthur C. “The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles.” The Pacific Historical Review 63#3 (1994): 289–314. online; Verge, Arthur C. "World War II" in A Companion to California History ed. by William Deverell and David Igler.

  5. California World War II Army airfields - Wikipedia

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    Army Air Forces Basic Flying School / Army Air Force Pilot School, Basic, 24 March 1942–25 April 1944 10th Base Headquarters an Air Base Squadron, 12 July 1942–25 April 1944 433rd Army Air Force Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station, Fighter), 25 April 1944–31 October 1945 Now: Chico Municipal Airport (IATA: CIC, ICAO: KCIC, FAA LID: CIC)

  6. Battle of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942, over Los Angeles, California.

  7. Camp Callan - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of this training center was to teach trainees how to fire long-range weapons in the event the Imperial Japanese Navy tried to attack the West Coast of the United States. This training center was named "Camp Callan" in honor of Major General Robert Emmet Callan, a distinguished Coast Artillery officer. Construction of the base began ...

  8. Denver-area wildfire turns deadly as California’s Park Fire ...

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    California’s Park Fire is bigger than the size of Los Angeles: The weeklong inferno, which started July 24 in Northern California, is now the fifth-largest wildfire in state history.It has ...

  9. Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The national memorial is located at the Concord Naval Weapons Station near Concord, California, in the United States. The 1944 Port Chicago disaster occurred at the naval magazine and resulted in the largest domestic loss of life during World War II. A total of 320 sailors and civilians were instantly killed on July 17, 1944, when the ships ...