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Designed by Kenneth A. MacDonald Jr. and sculptor, Federico Augustino Giorgi, it was built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Aviation enthusiast James Gillette was impressed by the rotunda's close proximity to the airport and Lockheed Aircraft Company.
California LGBTQ Veterans Memorial; California Memorial Stadium; California State Capitol Museum; California State Route 1; California State Route 36; California Volunteers (sculpture) Carmel-by-the-Sea World War I Memorial Arch; Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chula Vista, California) Statue of Christopher Columbus (San Francisco) El Cid ...
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.The park preserves and interprets the legacy of the United States home front during World War II, including the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, the Victory ship SS Red Oak Victory, a tank factory, housing developments and other facilities ...
A sign reading: 'I AM AN AMERICAN', on the Wanto Co grocery store at 401 - 403 Eighth and Franklin Streets in Oakland, California, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, 8th December 1941.
West Coast Memorial Inscription Statue of Columbia. The West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II is a monument dedicated to missing soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, and airmen of World War II. It is a curved wall of California granite set in a grove of Monterey pine and cypress and overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
Editor’s Note: Read the latest on the lake-effect snow here.This story is no longer being updated. As biting cold temperatures sweep across a large swath of the US, parts of the Great Lakes face ...
Save up to 50% off major appliances including deep freezers, ranges and cooktops at Best Buy through Dec. 2. We're eyeing this 4-door Samsung refrigerator and ice maker combo.