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In the heaviest raid of the war, 800 B-29s dropped more than 6,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Japanese cities and killed 80,000 people. [5]Paul Tibbets, pilot of the lead plane in the planned atomic bomb run, reported to General Curtis LeMay's Air Force headquarters on Guam and was briefed on the mission over Hiroshima.
The 1945 San Diego Naval Training Station Bluejackets football team represented the San Diego Naval Training Station (San Diego NTS) during the 1945 college football season. The Bluejackets compiled a record of 4–2. The San Diego NTS Bluejackets were ranked 16th among the nation's college and service teams in the final Litkenhous Ratings. [1]
"San Diego, June 3 (AP) - Two Navy pilots were believed killed today when their Fireball pursuit planes collided five miles off the coast near San Clemente, 60 miles north of here. The Navy in reporting the crash said the accident occurred when the wing of one of the planes broke off and the other craft rammed the damaged plane.
On 27 August, San Diego was the first major Allied warship to enter Tokyo Bay since the beginning of the war, and she helped in the occupation of the Yokosuka Naval Base and the surrender of the Japanese battleship Nagato. After having steamed over 300,000 mi (480,000 km) in the Pacific, she returned to San Francisco on 14 September 1945.
Upon successful completion, she returned to San Diego and remained there until her fourth deployment to Vietnam. On 2 August Hanson set sail, accompanied by Dennis J. Buckley, Jouett and Boyd. The four ships left San Diego Harbor in a diamond formation, steaming under the new San Diego-Coronado Bridge during the opening ceremonies.
With Korea, Vietnam and "cold war" commitments, fleet support activities under Commander Naval Base San Diego remained at a very high level. At that time, the Eleventh District consisted of New Mexico ; Arizona ; Clark County, Nevada ; the southern part of California , including Counties of Santa Barbara , Kern , and all of the counties south ...
According to the San Diego Police Department, Officer Austin Machitar, 30, was killed during the pursuit, while his partner, Officer Zachary Martinez, 27, was injured and is in critical but stable ...
As part of the Magic Carpet fleet, she stood out from San Diego, California 11 September with rotation troops for Pearl Harbor and returned to San Francisco 24 September with 5,000 veterans. From 6 October 1945 to 8 February 1946, she made three round-trip trans-Pacific voyages (two out of San Francisco and the third from Seattle ) to bring ...