enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. California during World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_during_World_War_II

    California during World War II was a major contributor to the World War II effort. California's long Pacific Ocean coastline provided the support needed for the Pacific War. California also supported the war in Europe. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, most of California's manufacturing was shifted to the war effort ...

  3. Nisei VFW Post 8985 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisei_VFW_Post_8985

    Nisei Memorial VFW Post 8985 was founded in 1947 by Japanese-American World War II veterans of the 442nd RCT and the Military Intelligence Service in Sacramento, California. Its members would form the first of 14 segregated Nisei VFW posts chartered in California.

  4. Category:Military and war museums in California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_and_war...

    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... World War II museums in California (4 P) ... Veterans Museum and Memorial Center; W.

  5. Category : World War II memorials in the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:World_War_II...

    World War II Veterans Memorial Bridge (Virginia) World War II Veterans Memorial Highway This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 15:52 (UTC). Text ...

  6. List of national memorials of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_memorials...

    National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...

  7. San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_War_Memorial...

    The San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (SFWMPAC) is located in San Francisco, California. It is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States . It covers 7.5 acres (3 hectares ) in the Civic Center Historic District, and totals 7,500 seats among its venues.

  8. West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Memorial_to_the...

    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.

  9. List of memorials to Bataan Death March victims - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_memorials_to...

    The building is named in memoriam for the many New Mexico veterans serving in the 200th Coast Artillery (Regiment) during World War II. The building served as the State Capitol Building from 1900 to 1966. Bataan Memorial Trainway in El Paso, Texas honors the prisoners-of-war who died in the enemy camp