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Solano History 16 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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S. P. Dobbins Jr. and W [...]

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World War I Boy Scouts
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Memorial to World War Heros, Fairfield, Ca
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As tide of World War II shifts, so does the fate of prisoners / Bowen, Jerry [594] [WAYITWAS-2005-594]
In my last column we told of George Nelson's imprisonment at Bilibid prison hospital in Manila, Philippines, for 10 months while his wounds healed and of his later transfer to the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp where he arrived May 17, 1943.
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A look into vanished world of Chinatown / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [581] [WAYITWAS-2005-581]
For decades in the late 1800s and into the 20th century, a small Chinese community flourished in Vacaville along Dobbins Street.
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Rio Vista man was a WWII prisoner / Bowen, Jerry [589] [WAYITWAS-2005-589]
World War II produced many real heroes. Some were prisoners of war. George Nelson of Rio Vista was one of those heroes.
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WWI took its share of local boys / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [130] [WAYITWAS-2002-130]
World War I, which started in 1914, shaped the 20th century and influenced people's lives around the world.
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Waterman Park provided answer to wartime housing / Dingler, Nancy [486] [RETROSPECT-2003-486]
Shortly after the beginning of World War II, the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field was created. With it came construction workers who were housed in hastily erected "tar paper" barracks. As the war progressed, the mission of the airfield changed from reconnaissance to flying troops and supplies to the "Pacific theater" in our war against the Japanese.
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News traveled slow, Doolittle didn't / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [162] [WAYITWAS-2003-162]
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States plunged into World War II. Fighting proved difficult both in Europe and in the Pacific where forces were on the defensive. War reports trickled slowly back home [...]
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Memories Of Holiday / Wichels, Ernest [773] [WICHELS-1963-773]
Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. It's a holiday, with pay, for most people. Noteworthy, the religious aspect of the day has been growing in recent years. Up until World War II it shared this significance with football games throughout the country--in Vallejo, too, for the Apaches observed a home-and-home schedule with the Eureka High School [...]
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