Photos Taken in California | World War II Database

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USS Tunny off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 6 Nov 1942	Liberty ship John Muir sliding down the ways at Marinship, Sausalito, California, United States, 22 Nov 1942. John Muir was the fourth ship built at the Marinship yard.	USS San Francisco under Golden Gate Bridge en route to Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs, San Francisco, California, United States, 11 Dec 1942	Bruce McCandless receiving the Medal of Honor from Ernest King aboard USS San Francisco, 12 Dec 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States. The medal was for night actions off Savo Island, Solomons, 12 Nov 1942.

Chicago at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 14 Dec 1942	USS San Francisco at Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 14 Dec 1942; note circles marking shell damage during Naval Battle of Guadalcanal of 13 Nov 1942	Fletcher-class destroyer Hoel being launched at the Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco, California, United States, 19 Dec 1942.	Chicago off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, at the end of her last overhaul, 20 Dec 1942

Pickerel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 22 Dec 1942, photo 1 of 2	Pickerel off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 22 Dec 1942, photo 2 of 2	Pickerel at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Dec 1942, photo 1 of 2	Pickerel at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 28 Dec 1942, photo 2 of 2

A few possessions of the Yonemitsu family at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943	Aerial view of the seven original shipways of Kaiser Richmond Shipyard No. 1, early 1943. The large buildings in the upper right are the prefabrication sheds and Shipyard No. 2 is beyond them.	Building 54 at the Tiburon Naval Net Depot, Tiburon, California, United States, 1943.	Colonel Offley, Major General Gillem, Colonel Fitch, and Colonel Pierce of US Army 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment with Vice President Sergio Osmeña, Camp San Luis Obispo, California, United States, 1942-1944

Female US Marine Private Marion Pillsbury working on a Browning M1919 machine gun at Marine Corps Base San Diego, California, United States, circa 1943	Interior of the Kaiser Field Hospital and clinic, Richmond, California, United States, circa 1943. Note the diversity of the patients waiting for treatment, bearing out their motto “Illness knows no color line here.”	Ira Hayes at Parachute Training School, Camp Gillespie, El Cajon, California, United States, 1943	Japanese-American artist C. T. Hibino at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California, United States, 1943