Location of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Naval Air Base San Pedro, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island on Terminal IslandRoosevelt Base
Naval Operating Base Terminal Island, (NOB Terminal Island) was United States Navy base founded on 25 September 1941 to support the World War II efforts in the Pacific War. Naval Operating Base Terminal Island was founded by combining Naval Facilities in cities of San Pedro, Long Beach and Wilmington, California under one command. Much of the base was on the man-made Terminal Island, and harbor in San Pedro Bay. The harbor was made through the construction of a large breakwater system.[1][2]
Naval Operating Base Terminal Island Facilities
Naval facilities were combined under one Naval command by The US Navy Department General Order No. 154. At the end of the war, the facilities were renamed to be US Naval Bases. [3][4]
Naval Facilities that made up Naval Operating Base Terminal Island:
Roosevelt Base Terminal Island shipyard was founded in September 1942 as a ship repair facility. Construction started in 1939. Roosevelt Base also was the administrative and 40 acre recreational center for the Naval facilities on Terminal Island. Roosevelt Base Terminal Island was renamed Naval Station Long Beach on 15 November 1946. The Roosevelt Base had: shipyards, a Marine barracks, fuel tank foram, net depot, ammunition depot, hospital, prison, degaussing range, radio station, mess halls and recreational center, schools, and Navy barracks. The expansion of the harbor breakwater and dredging to make more land was included in the Roosevelt Base plan.
The Navy contractors that oversaw the construction were the Guy F. Atkinson Construction Company of San Francisco and the George Pollock Company of Sacramento, with Allied Engineers of as architects and civil engineers. [5][6] Roosevelt Base Terminal Island was boarded by Ocean Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, Richardson Avenue and Idaho Street, on Naval Station Long Beach. Construction started in 1940 on one large drydock and two small docks. The complete construction of base was completed in 1943. The 11 buildings on the base were built in the Mediterranean Revival architecture.[7] Roosevelt Base Terminal Island shipyard was named the Terminal Island Naval Dry Docks in June 1940.[8] In August 1940 on one. In April 1942 piers were completed.[9] On 9 February 1943 the named of the shipyard change again to US Naval Dry Docks, Roosevelt Base, California.[citation needed] With so much activity in the peak of World War II, in 1944 a pontoon bridge was built to Terminal Island. The pontoon bridge was removed after the completion of the Gerald Desmond Bridge in 1968.[9] With the end of World War II the shipyard was again renamed on 30 November 1945 to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard and in March 1948 renamed to Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) On 15 November 1946, the adjoining Naval Station Long Beach was established.[10]
Map of the City of San Pedro, part on the southern part of Palos Verdes Peninsula and part on Terminal Island. The City of Wilmington is to the north of San Pedro with three docks that were part of Naval Operating Base Terminal IslandLos Angeles Harbor Light built in 1913, on the 2.11-mile San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1911, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island in World War II
Camp Ross was a United States Army World War II base and served as a staging area (embarkation camp) under the command of the Army's Los Angeles Port of Embarkation. The camp was located in San Pedro and Wilmington. Troops were housed, processed, and prepared before departing on a ship at Naval Operating Base Terminal Island.[17][9]
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