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Rescue at Los Baños: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II (2015) William Morrow ISBN 978-0-06-232506-8; Holm, Jeremy C. When Angels Fall: From Toccoa to Tokyo, the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II (2019) ISBN 978-1087303185; Rottman, G.L. The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid (2010) Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN ...
O'Neill Dam, constructed from 1963 to 1967, is an 87.5 ft (26.7 m), earthfill and rockfill dam, stretching over 3 mi (4.8 km) across the valley of San Luis Creek. With a maximum reservoir depth of 57 ft (17 m), peak inflow to the forebay is 15,600 cu ft (0.44 dam 3 ) per second, from both the San Luis Dam and the Delta–Mendota Canal.
Los Baños Creek or Los Banos Creek, originally El Arroyo de los Baños, [3] is a 40 miles (64 km) long [4] tributary stream of the San Joaquin River in Merced County, California. From its source in the central Diablo Range it flows east into the Central Valley where it turns northeast to the west edge of Los Banos .
Rancho San Luis Gonzaga was a 48,821-acre (197.57 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Diablo Range, in present-day Santa Clara County and Merced County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Juan Carlos Pacheco and José Maria Mejía. [1] The grant was bounded by Francisco Pérez Pachecos Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe on the ...
424 MW [4] San Luis Dam, also known as B.F. Sisk Dam, is a major earth-filled dam in Merced County, California, which forms San Luis Reservoir, the largest off-stream reservoir in the United States. [citation needed] The dam and reservoir are located in the Diablo Range to the east of Pacheco Pass and about 10 miles (16 km) west of Los Banos.
Sydney Borchers. August 26, 2024 at 5:44 PM. Two West Virginia fishing buddies break state records within hours of each other. A West Virginia fisherman set a new record only for it to be beaten ...
Pacheco State Park is a California State Park to the south of Pacheco Pass in the Diablo Range, located mostly in western Merced County, California but extending into southeastern Santa Clara County and near Hollister in San Benito County. Located 24 miles (39 km) west of Los Banos, California and 20 miles (32 km) east of Gilroy, the park ...
Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was the largest of several camps in the Philippines in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Americans, in World War II. The campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila was utilized for the camp, which housed more than 3,000 internees from January 1942 ...