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It is the Navy's only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range, [10] and is the center of the integrated air/land/sea San Clemente Island Range Complex covering 2,620 nm 2 (8,990 km 2). During World War II , the island was a training ground for amphibious landing craft.
San Clemente Island is the southernmost Channel Island, covering 57 square miles (150 km 2). The island is approximately 21 nautical miles (39 kilometres) long and is 4.5 nmi (8.3 km) across at its widest point. It lies 55 nmi (102 km) south of Long Beach and 68 nmi (126 km) west of San Diego.
San Miguel Island was used as a bombing range [32] and Santa Barbara Island as an early warning outpost under the presumed threat of a Japanese attack on California. [33] San Clemente Island was used to train the Navy's first amphibious force to prepare for Pacific combat against the Japanese in World War II. [34]
San Clemente Island viewed from a shuttle aircraft that regularly flies military and civilian personnel to the U.S. Navy-owned island, 68 miles from San Diego in 2013. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles ...
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and is one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the United States. It is on the Southern California coast in San Diego County and is bordered by Oceanside to the south, San Clemente in Orange County to the north, Riverside County to the northeast, and Fallbrook to the east.
San Clemente Naval Auxiliary Air Station is a closed airfield located near the center of the San Clemente Island, California. Also called San Clemente Airfield, the airfield was built in 1934 with two 1,600-foot dirt runways. San Clemente Island is owned and operated by the United States Navy since November 7, 1934.
Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island SCI, also known as Frederick Sherman Field , is a military airport located on San Clemente Island . Silver Strand Training Complex ( 32°35′47″N 117°07′41″W / 32.596389°N 117.128056°W / 32.596389; -117.128056 ( Silver Strand Training
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew, like this one from a July 2020 search, is looking for three people aboard a U.S. Navy contractor's aircraft that crashed near San Clemente Island.