Military History &
Heritage of Northern California
   

This is a preview and a new addition to the American Military Poverty Law Project
  • The visit to San Francisco of the US Navy's Great White Fleet circumnavigation of the Globe during President Teddy Roosevelt's administration
(above) Brigadier Francis Ingall, the Last Commander of the Bengal Lancers, Duke of Connaught .The sun didn't set on the British Army' s veterans.  After long service in Britain's army, Brigadier Ingall retired to the San Francisco area, where he assumed the honorary post of Consul for Pakistan.
  • HMS HOOD,Great Britain's most famous  and biggest ship--a battle cruiser-- on a visit  during the 1920's  to San Francisco before she encountered BISMARK in May 1941.  Named after Rear Admiral Lambert Hood, who died in the naval Battle off Jutland Denmark in world war one.
  • (Below) 717 Market Street in San Francisco, California.

  • 717 Market near 3rd Street in downtown San Francisco--During WWII this was the address of US Naval Intelligence,  the most important branch of the Navy.  At this address, navy cryptographers and translators assisted Commander Rochford in breaking the complex Japanese Code Blue, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy  to communicate with their invasion forces in the Pacific.
  • Because the Navy broke the code and kept it secret--like the British, who broke German's enigma code--Admiral Nimitiz was able to marshall Naval forces to meet, defeat and destroy the Japanese invasion of Midway Island.   Had the Japanese been successful, they would have been able to invade Hawaii and America's west coast.   
  • Available on CD are excerpts from rare audio interviews done by Peter Paul (Verzola) of  Col. Trevor Hodges, the Last British-American survivor of the World War One Gallipoli Turkey campaign, Brigadier Ingall as well as interviews from American POWS who survived the torture and medical experimentation inflicted by Major Ishii at the Murken Manchurian version of Auschwitz. 
  • Coming soon:  more photos and historical sites  etc.
  • Relevant websites
   
   
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