From western outpost to Navy Town, USA, San Diego’s history is tightly woven with the military’s
1846: U.S. Marines and Navy sailors take possession of San Diego during the early months of the Mexican-American War. Two years later, the warring parties sign a treaty in which Mexico cedes huge ...
Glenn Wirtanen served in the U.S. Navy from 1963 through 1969. After boot camp in San Diego, Wirtanen went to Midway Island for a year, where he worked at an airborne early warning base and a ...
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan addresses sailors and Marines on the flight deck of amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset at Naval Base San Diego. (Photo by Evan Diaz/U.S. Navy) Navy ...
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