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Jun 30, 1999 · EL TORO, 1943 - 1999. By JANET WILSON. June 30, 1999 12 AM PT. LOS ANGELES TIMES. Just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, in a time when orange groves still stretched alongside dusty farm roads ...
Jul 3, 1999 · A Bittersweet Farewell to El Toro. By SCOTT MARTELLE and H.G. REZA. July 3, 1999 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITERS. EL TORO —. In a ceremony that merged the nostalgic with the patriotic, more than ...
The name "El Toro" came from the nearby small community of El Toro, now incorporated as Lake Forest, which in 1940 only had a population of 130 people. [ 4 ] The base headquarters was established on 4 November 1942, and the first landing occurred in late November when Major Michael Carmichael, flying from Camp Kearny , was forced to make an emergency landing among the construction equipment. [ 4 ]
Nov 9, 1991 · El Toro (The Bull), as the 40-year-old Gargallo was nicknamed, took at least 17 bullets, including one at close range between the eyes. ... These three questions about war in the Mideast remain ...
MCAS El Toro was established on a tract of land which had been owned by James Irvine, 40 miles south of Los Angeles. When the Navy surveyed the site in 1928, Irvine was reluctant to sell the most productive bean fields on his ranch. But in 1942, El Toro, which had been little more than a small farming community for nearly a century, was ...
Charlotte MoultonOrange County History Series, Volume 2 (1932) El Toro did not officially come into being and was unnamed until the Santa Fe Railroad went through it is 1888. At this time it was named “Aliso,” a Spanish word meaning sycamore, which was the name that had been given the creek which courses down Trabuco Canyon amid many ...
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The Mexican War of 1846–1848, largely forgotten today, was the second costliest war in American history in terms of the percentage of soldiers who died. Of the 78, 718 American soldiers who served, 13,283 died, constituting a casualty rate of 16.87 percent.
