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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM16EP_california-aurora-school-memorial_California-MO.html
"Seek Til You Find"
[Image of former school]
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM16FH_smith-burke-park_California-MO.html
Circa 1858, after tracks were laid through California, the Missouri Pacific Railroad built the Central Hotel to house railroad employees. Later, Dr. J.P. Burke, a local doctor who practiced medicine in California for about 50 years, purchased the property a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM16N8_379th-bombardment-group-h_Pooler-GA.html
K 379th Bombardment Group (H) Activated 26 November 1942 Boise, Idaho Assignment 1st Air Division 41st Combat Wing USAAF Station 117 Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England 20 May 1943 — 4 July 1945
Combat Record First Mission St. Nazaire, France 29 M…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM174M_coliseum-hotel-and-saltwater-natatorium_Hutchinson-KS.html
Buildings that once stood here were constructed in 1909 as the Coliseum Hotel and Saltwater Natatorium. The Coliseum Hotel was designed on a European plan offering 75 guest rooms, commodious dining room, library and a fine gymnasium and the only salt water …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM174N_hutchinson-gas-crisis_Hutchinson-KS.html
Gas escaping under pressure from storage facilities 4 miles away traveled underground and emerged through the open well inside the building. The gas ignited, producing a large explosion and initiating the Hutchinson Gas Crisis on January 17, 2001. City empl…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1764_martian-landing-site_West-Windsor-Township-NJ.html
On the evening of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre presented a dramatization of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as adapted by Howard Koch. This was to become a landmark in broadcast history, provoking continuing thought about media r…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM176Z_general-jonathan-m-wainwright-memorial_Cavite-City-Calabarzon.html
[west face:][Portrait of General Wainwright]
General Jonathan M. Wainwright1883 to 1953HERO OF BATAANMedal of Honor Citation "General Jonathan M. Wainwright, 02131, commanding United StatesArmy Forces in the Philippines from 12 March to 7 May 1942. He …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM179O_hells-angels-might-in-flight-303rd-bombardment-group-h_Pooler-GA.html
358th-359th-360th-427th Flight Squadrons supportedby our essential dedicated Ground units
12 Sept to 11 June 1945 - AAF Station 107Molesworth, Huntingdonshire, EnglandConstituted 28 Jan 1942 _ Savannah, GeorgiaInactivated 25 July 1945 - Casablanca, Frenc…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM17BG_julius-ellsberry_Birmingham-AL.html
In dedication to Julius Ellsberry, the first Black Alabama man to die in World War II; born Birmingham, Ala, 1922.
Enlisted in the U.S. Navy, 1940; First Class Mate [sic] Attendant aboard battleship Oklahoma in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, did sacrifice …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM17EP_in-memory-of-col-raynal-c-bolling_Washington-DC.html
[Panel No. 1]:"Whatever happens to me will be the result of action, not inaction or drift."? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Bolling
[Panel No. 2]:On April 7, 1917, the day after President Wilson's war message to Congress, Major Raynal Ca…