REMEMBER
OUR PAL LEE
PASSMORE? On April 25, 1932 he
captured this photo of the USS Saratoga
(CV-3) leaving San Diego Harbor. It's a
common event now, but this was only the
second (and final) time before WWII that a
ship the size of the Saratoga entered San
Diego Harbor and that was possible only
because of the "turning basin" formed after
dredging out the harbor to gather enough
fill dirt to build Lindbergh Field. Later in
the decade, with war clouds looming, Pier
Fox was built on North Island, about where
the Sara is in this photo. That allowed the
Saratoga and her sister carrier the
Lexington to tie up at North Island, instead
of anchoring in Coronado Roads and making
the crew go ashore in Liberty Boats (San
Diego Historical Society photo)
NANCY
WATSON WINGO took the photos below on
November 2, 2010,
an unseasonably warm and clear day.
