Created by June Morrall
(The following piece is related to the Reber Plan; he’s the guy who wanted to turn San Francisco Bay into one giant lake after WWII. With military highways and military airports, too. I like the military highways because they are here, today, like Highway 101. I never thought of it as a military road; I …
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Email Collin Tiura ([email protected]) Here are some photos of my latest trip to Nome in Joe’s 180 Cessna. We were looking for a wrecked P-38 World War II fighter which crashed 50 years ago about 100 miles east of Nome. Nome is 5 1/2 hours in the 180 and my description of Nome is ‘5 …
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Moss Beach, World War II. In the sky above the woman you’ll see a blimp. I’ve been told that the blimps were a common sight on the Coastside, searching for enemy subs in the Pacific.
Elaine Martini Teixeira says: Sometime in the first part of 1942, before my brother left for service in the US Army in October, government men came to our home in Moss Beach. My brother, Raymond Martini, recalls they showed some official papers, but said they were not given to the family to read, and we …
By June Morrall I wrote this shocking story in 2003. During WWII, Half Moon Bay’s Main Street, and everything to the west, including the beaches, was off-limits to those folks without citizenship papers It was a frightening time on the Coastside. If you were Italian in Half Moon Bay at the beginning of World War …
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From the Half Moon Bay Review, 1945, an article celebrating the end of hostilities. “Japanese capitulation, ending World War II, has lifted the wall of military secrecy on San Mateo County’s magnificent contribution to the fighting machine of America and her allies in mankind’s greatest conflict of arms. “It was no small part that we …
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With the war finally over in 1945, the cloak of miitary secrecy which smothered the Coastside during the war was finally lifted, and some information was leaked to the local newspaper. It was as if a signal was given; the military pulled out as fast as their convoys had arrived. The airport used for target …
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From the Half Moon Bay Review The year was 1945 “Mills field navy installations totaling $5,000,000 are to be turned over to San Francisco and 85 acres of the property will be promptly leased to Pan American Airways as its Pan-Pacific terminus. “The explanation was made by Capt. Bernard M. Doolin, airport manager, in clarification …
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January 1945 From the Half Moon Bay Review “War needs more men in the Armed Forces and the Draft Boards must supply much greater numbers next spring than last fall. However, since food needs also must be met it appears that except for boys just turning 18, most San Mateo County farmers still at home …
January 1945 From the Half Moon Bay Review “A Japanese-owned home, barn, tool shed and farm equipment on a hilltop between Pescadero and the new coast highway were destroyed recently by a mysterious fire, it became known Friday. “The place was owned by Elizabeth Kiyoko Monometo Matsuki, who resided there with her three children prior …
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