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The USS Bennington Monument is a 60-foot (18 m) granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States. It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington (PG-4), a gunboat of the United States Navy, whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay. [1]
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in San Diego, California. It is located on the grounds of the former Army coastal artillery station Fort Rosecrans and is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Fort Rosecrans is named after William Starke Rosecrans, a Union general in the American Civil War.
National military cemetery overlooking the bay and the city; remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the Battle of San Pasqual were moved there in 1882 20: Ballast Point: La Playa Peninsula 11/6/1970 Probable site of Cabrillo's initial landing; site of Fort Guijarros; now part of Naval Base Point Loma: 22: Old La Playa Site: Bayside of Pt. Loma 11/6 ...
Point Loma (Spanish: Punta de la Loma, meaning "Hill Point"; Kumeyaay: Amat Kunyily, meaning "Black Earth") [1] is a seaside community in San Diego, California, United States. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , the east by San Diego Bay and Old Town , and the north by the San ...
Mission Santa Ysabel Asistencia Cemetery, Santa Ysabel [1] Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego [2] Oak Hill Memorial Park [1] Oceanview Cemetery, Oceanside [1] Old Mission San Luis Rey Cemetery, Oceanside [1] [3] San Marcos Cemetery, Escondido [1] San Pasqual Cemetery, San Pasqual [1] Singing Hills Memorial Park, El Cajon; Valley Center Cemetery ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...
The six naval installations on Point Loma were consolidated as Naval Base Point Loma on 1 October 1998. On March 13, 2023, Naval Base Point Loma was visited by President Joe Biden along with the prime ministers of Australia and the United Kingdom. The occasion was to announce an agreement among the allies to provide nuclear-powered attack ...
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