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In 1951 El Coyote moved to its present location on Beverly Boulevard. Today there are eight rooms and a patio where an average of 1,000 meals are served daily. Their margaritas have been voted the city's best by Los Angeles magazine and the Los Angeles Times. They have also grown to 95 staff members. [2] They have a seating capacity of 375. [1]
The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor" and "The Battling Belles of Bataan" [1]) were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942 ...
The Battle of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
Wainwright, nicknamed "Skinny" and "Jim", was born at Fort Walla Walla, a former Army post near Walla Walla, Washington.His father was a U.S. Army officer who was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry in 1875, rose to the rank of major, commanded a squadron of the 5th Cavalry at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War, and, in 1902, died of disease in the ...
The Raid at Cabanatuan (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Cabanatuan), also known as the Great Raid (Filipino: Ang Dakilang Pagsalakay), was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, Philippines.
Mims said the soldiers fought the Japanese in Manila and Corregidor, an island off the Bataan Peninsula. He became a prisoner of war after American forces surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942.
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The Battle of Bataan is referenced among important battles of American history in the song The House I Live In, sang by Frank Sinatra in the film of the same name and later taken up by Paul Robeson and various other singers: "The little bridge at Concord, where Freedom's fight began, / Our Gettysburg and Midway, and the story of Bataan".