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In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) devised the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and assigned the original North American area codes. The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state ...
Post 8985 still serves as a non-profit organization, memorial, and community center, and has evolved into the 21st century serving as a reminder of Sacramento's greater Japanese-American history with a Japanese-American civil liberties monument placed on the outside edge of the property containing interpretive panels, text, and photographs describing Sacramento's Japantown and the internment ...
This was a naval code used by merchant ships (commonly known as the "maru code"), [22] broken in May 1940. 28 May 1941, when the whale factory ship Nisshin Maru No. 2 (1937) visited San Francisco, U.S. Customs Service Agent George Muller and Commander R. P. McCullough of the U.S. Navy's 12th Naval District (responsible for the area) boarded her ...
Identification chart of Japanese aircraft Mitsubishi G3M aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy were nicknamed "Nell" by Allied forces during World War II.. The World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft were reporting names, often described as codenames, given by Allied personnel to Imperial Japanese aircraft during the Pacific campaign of World War II.
A katana, Nabeshima Kotetsu. (owned by Nabeshima clan) Nagasone Kotetsu (長曾禰 虎徹, c. 1597 – June 24, 1678) (born Nagasone Okisato) was a Japanese swordmaker of the early Edo period. His father was an armorer who served Ishida Mitsunari, the lord of Sawayama.
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
A California Historic Landmark plaque is located near Fairplex, on the grassy drop off area, north of the intersection of Canyon Way and West McKinley Avenue, at around 1099 West McKinley Avenue, Pomona, California. [1] Construction on the Pomona Assembly Center began on March 21, 1942, and the camp officially opened on May 7, 1942.
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [1] California area codes were reorganized geographically in 1950, so that 916 was assigned to a numbering plan area that comprised only the ...