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San Diego's North Island, 1911-1941 /
- Title
- San Diego's North Island, 1911-1941 / Katrina Pescador, Mark Aldrich, the San Diego Air and Space Museum.
- Author
- Pescador, Katrina.
- Publication
- San Francisco, CA : Arcadia Pub., ©2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Details the history of North Island in the middle of San Diego Harbor including the appropriation in 1917 to commission two airfields - Rockwell Field (Army) and the San Diego Naval Air Station. During WW II, the North Island was one of the major continental American bases supporting the operating forces in the Pacific.
- Series Statement
- Images of aviation
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- First Flights: 1911-1917 -- Rockwell Field: 1917-1935 -- The fleet's in: 1917-1935 -- Visitors from the civilian world: 1927-1941 -- The Navy takes over and prepares for war: 1935-1941.
- ISBN
- 9780738547954
- 0738547956
- LCCN
- 2007925813
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library