Photos Taken in California | World War II Database

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Japanese-Americans outside a Civil Control Station at the Japanese American Citizens League Auditorium, San Francisco, California, United States, 25 Apr 1942	Mahan off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Apr 1942	A rudder’s-eye-view of Liberty-ship F A C Muhlenberg on the ways at CalShip, Los Angeles, California, United States, May 1942.	George McCraw, worker at Vega Aircraft Corporation, applying nose art on a PV-1 Ventura aircraft, Burbank, California, United States, circa May 1942

Preliminary filling and grading of the Marinship site, Sausalito, California, United States, May 1942. Left edge is the start of the administration building and the intersection of Bridgeway at Ebb Tide.	US Marine paratroopers training on handling parachutes in heavy winds, Navy Auxiliary Air Station at Camp Kearny, California (now Miramar), 1942. Note rare R3D aircraft, only 12 such planes were made.	USS Helena at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, early- to mid-1942	Young Japanese-American evacuees waiting their turn for baggage inspection at the Assembly Center in Turlock, California, 2 May 1942.

Launch party of Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Launching of submarine Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Stern of Sunfish, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942	Sunfish preparing for launch, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942

Sunfish shortly after launch, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942, photo 1 of 2	Sunfish shortly after launch, Vallejo, California, United States, 2 May 1942, photo 2 of 2	Destroyer USS Shaw ready to be undocked from Drydock No. 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States after being fitted with a new bow section, 3 May 1942.	Louisville off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 May 1942

Wedding of Wu Chien-Shiung and Luke Yuan, with Robert Millikan and his wife, California, United States, 30 May 1942	American female aircraft worker working at the Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California, United States, Jun 1942	Captain Forrest P. Sherman inspecting the US Marine Corps detachment aboard carrier Wasp, San Diego, United States, Jun 1942	Aircraft transport USS Long Island at North Island, San Diego, California, United States, 2 Jun 1942. Note F4F-4 Wildcats and SOC-3A Seagulls on the flight deck.