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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.

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Additional Authors
  • Aldrich, Mark.
  • San Diego Air and Space Museum.
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
Subject
  • Naval Air Station North Island (Calif.) > Pictorial works
  • Aeronautics > California > San Diego > History
  • Aeronautics
  • California > San Diego
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
OCLC
  • ocn176918819
  • SCSB-9636830
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library