Military and War Museums in California - Sutter's Fort, Presidio of San Francisco, Vandenberg Air Force Base, USS Midway (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Sutter's Fort, Presidio of San Francisco, Vandenberg Air Force Base, USS Midway, Fort Humboldt State Historic Park, USS Pampanito, Drum Barracks, Fort Point, San Francisco, Fort Tejon, SS Jeremiah O'Brien, Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, Fort MacArthur, Estrella Warbird Museum, USS Lucid, Soviet submarine B-39, SS Red Oak Victory, USS Midway Museum, Soviet submarine B-427, Eagle Field, Aerospace Museum of California, Naval Museum of Armament & Technology, Palm Springs Air Museum, March Field Air Museum, California State Military Museum, Yanks Air Museum, Presidio of Sonoma, USS Hornet Museum, General George S. Patton Memorial Museum, MCRD San Diego Command Museum, WWII/Korea LVT Museum, San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, Veterans Museum and Memorial Center. Excerpt: The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It has been a fortified location since September 17th, 1776 when the Spanish made it the military center of their expansion in the area. It passed to Mexico, which in turn passed it to the United States in 1848. As part of a military reduction program, Congress voted in 1989 to end the Presidio's status as an active military installation and on October 1, 1994, it was transferred to the National Park Service, ending 219 years of military use and beginning its next phase of mixed commercial and public use. In 1996, the United States Congress created the Presidio Trust to oversee and manage the interior 80% of the park's lands, with the National Park Service managing the coastal 20%. In a first-of-its-kind structure, Congress mandated that the Presidio Trust make the Presidio financially self-s...