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Throughout its 70-year history as a military base, the mission of Naval Training Center (NTC) San Diego was to provide primary, advanced, and specialized training for members of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve. In support of that mission, NTC expanded to include 300 buildings with nearly three million square feet of space.
N/A. Armament. unarmed. USS Recruit (TDE-1, later TFFG-1) was a landlocked "dummy" training ship of the United States Navy, located at the Naval Training Center in the Point Loma area of San Diego, California. She was built to scale, two-thirds the size of a Dealey -class destroyer escort, and was commissioned on July 27, 1949. [2]
Main exhibit area of Midway on the hangar deck. The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier museum located in downtown San Diego, California at Navy Pier. The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway. The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern California. [1] [2]
Liberty Station, San Diego. Coordinates: 32°44′18″N117°12′50″W32.7383°N 117.2140°W. Liberty Station is a mixed-use development in San Diego, California, on the site of the former Naval Training Center San Diego. [1] It is located in the Point Loma community of San Diego. It has a waterfront location, on a boat channel off of San ...
The Montgomery Memorial is a monument dedicated on May 21, 1950, to the pioneering aviation achievement of John J. Montgomery and his early glider flights in the 1880s at Otay, California. [1] It is situated adjacent to the Montgomery-Waller Recreation Center. [2] The monument features a 93-foot high stainless steel static test wing panel for ...
Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD), also known as Bob Wilson Naval Hospital and informally referred to as "Balboa Hospital", or "The Pink Palace" (because the stucco of the first buildings that were constructed was pinkish in color), is a technologically advanced Navy medical treatment facility. Located within the grounds of Balboa Park in ...
Uploaded a work by U.S. Navy from Post card purchased at a U.S. Navy shop known as a "Navy Exchange". Photos were taken by and sold by the U.S. Navy. Part of a series of postcards showing life at Navy Boot Camp, Naval Training Center San Diego, California, 1980. with UploadWizard
1932 [3] Designated SDHL. February 29, 1968 [4] El Presidio Real de San Diego ( Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá, leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California —at that time an unexplored northwestern frontier area of New Spain.