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Camp Fremont. Coordinates: 37°26′56″N 122°11′11″W [32] Camp Fremont was a World War I -era military base located near Palo Alto, California. Construction started in July 1917 and the post closed in September, 1919. The post was named for John C. Frémont, a US Army officer and government official who was prominent in California during ...
v. t. e. After 1900, California continued to grow rapidly and soon became an agricultural and industrial power. The economy was widely based on specialty agriculture, oil, tourism, shipping, film, and after 1940 advanced technology such as aerospace and electronics industries – along with a significant military presence.
1984. The Carmel-by-the-Sea World War I Memorial Arch is a World War I memorial designed in 1919 by architect Charles Sumner Greene and located at Ocean Avenue and San Carlos Street center median divider in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The Memorial Arch was designated as a significant monument in the city's Downtown Historic District Property ...
1917–1946. Camp Kearny was a U.S. military base (first Army, later Navy) in San Diego County, California, on the site of the current Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. It operated from 1917 to 1946. The base was named in honor of Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny.
The Mojave Memorial Cross, officially known as the White Cross World War I Memorial, is a cross formerly on public land in the Mojave desert in San Bernardino County, California that was at the center of the Salazar v. Buono legal case before the U.S. Supreme Court. [1][2][3][4] The original cross was erected in 1934 to honor those killed in war.
USS California (ACR-6) USS. California. (ACR-6) USS San Diego (ACR-6), 28 January 1915, while serving as flagship of the Pacific Fleet. Note two-star rear admiral's flag flying from her mainmast top. The second USS California (ACR-6), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 6", and later renamed San Diego, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania ...
24–25 February 1942. Location. Los Angeles, California, U.S. Casualties and losses. 5 civilians died. 3 died in car accident. 2 died of heart attack. 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 ...
US President Woodrow Wilson announces the break in official relations with the German Empire in an address to the US Congress on February 3, 1917. The United States entered into World War I in April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an ...