From the recruit depot on the north shore of San Diego Bay to the black sand of Iwo Jima — and the impossible weight Ira Hayes carried home from the summit of Suribachi.
Read the story →Every day, one true story of this harbor — the carriers and the canneries, the lighthouse keepers and the flag raisers, the bridge and the boats — told the way we tell it from the deck of JADA, the classic 1938 yacht of Sail JADA Charters.
Hear it from the water — the History Sail →From the recruit depot on the north shore of San Diego Bay to the black sand of Iwo Jima — and the impossible weight Ira Hayes carried home from the summit of Suribachi.
Read the story →The Navy's most elite warriors trace their origin to a reef at Tarawa in 1943 — and for more than eighty years, they have trained on the shores of Coronado, where a brass bell marks the line between staying and leaving.
Read the story →In 1922, a single destroyer tender tied up at the foot of 32nd Street. Today, the eastern shore of San Diego Bay hosts the largest concentration of U.S. surface warships on the West Coast.
Read the story →Shelter Island and Harbor Island weren't there 100 years ago. They were made from bay bottom, raised above the waterline, and turned into the finest recreational waterfront on the West Coast.
Read the story →The Coronado Bridge bends 80 degrees across the bay because the Navy required 200 feet of clearance for their fleet, and the architect solved the geometry in a single afternoon.
Read the story →Daniel K. Inouye watched Pearl Harbor burn at seventeen, volunteered for the 442nd, lost his right arm in Italy, and waited fifty-five years for the Medal of Honor his country finally agreed he had always deserved — then had a destroyer named for him to patrol the same Pacific.
Read the story →The 442nd Regimental Combat Team became the most decorated unit in U.S. Army history — made up of men whose families were behind barbed wire, and whose medals were corrected fifty-five years too late.
Read the story →Japanese American fishermen built San Diego's tuna empire from bamboo poles and Pacific ambition — and were driven from this bay the same week their boats were drafted into the Navy.
Read the story →How San Diego became the Tuna Capital of the World, who built the fleet that earned the title, and what happened to the people who made it.
Read the story →She survived a mutiny, a gale, and decades of neglect in a San Diego harbor. The world's oldest active sailing ship has called this bay home for nearly a century.
Read the story →USS Midway was commissioned eight days after Japan surrendered. She arrived too late for the war she was built for, so she stayed for the next forty-seven years.
Read the story →On January 26, 1911, Glenn Curtiss flew the first seaplane in America from the sheltered water off North Island — and the Navy has been building on that flight ever since.
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