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On April 29, 1992, the airport closed for cleanup after the 1992 Los Angeles Riots over the Rodney King beating. [citation needed] The airport closed again as a 2-hour precaution on January 17, 1994 after the Northridge earthquake. [citation needed] In 1996, a $29 million, 277-foot-tall (84 m) air traffic control tower was built near the Theme ...
The basic layout of the airport dates back to 1958 when the architecture firm Pereira & Luckman was contracted to plan the re-design of the airport for the "jet age."The plan, developed with architects Welton Becket and Paul Williams, called for a series of terminals and parking structures in the central portion of the property, with these buildings connected at the center by a huge steel-and ...
The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that commenced January 22, 1944. The battle began with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle , and ended on June 4, 1944, with the liberation of Rome .
On October 26, 1944, WASP pilot Gertrude Tompkins Silver of the 601st Ferrying Squadron, fifth Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, Texas, departed Los Angeles Airport, in a North American P-51D Mustang, 44-15669, [280] at 1600 hrs PWT, headed for the East Coast. She took off into the wind, into an offshore fog bank, and was expected that night ...
The airport is named after Brigadier General William J. Fox, "a Marine war hero, a movie stunt man, the first Los Angeles County engineer and, for 20 years after his retirement, a cowboy." [2] The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility. [3]
Delivery airport for Lockheed Aircraft (P-38, B-17, PV-2, C-69) Also used by Technical Training Command Now: Bob Hope Airport (IATA: BUR, ICAO: KBUR) Long Beach Army Airfield, 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Long Beach; 6th Ferrying Group (Air Transport Command) Delivery airport for Douglas Aircraft (B-17, A-26, C-47) 348th Army Air Force Base Unit
The airport is located in Burbank, and serves the heavily populated areas of northern Los Angeles County. It is the closest airport to the central and northeastern parts of L.A. (including Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles), Glendale, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley, and the western San Gabriel Valley.
Action of 11 January 1944: The Japanese cruiser Kuma was torpedoed and sunk off Penang, Malaya by the British submarine Tally-Ho. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the annual State of the Union Address to Congress, in which he proposed the Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing such things as housing, medical care and education.