USS Admiral W. S. Benson began as an unnamed transport, AP-120, that was laid down on 10 December 1942 at Alameda, California by the Bethlehem-Alameda Shipbuilding Corp., under a Maritime Commission c
Terminal Island, historically known as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, is a largely artificial island located in Los Angeles County, California, between the neighborhoods of Wilmington and San Pedro in the
Terminal Island. Former Gerald Desmond Bridge is visible in the right-center background.
In this night-time aerial photograph of Los Angeles, San Pedro is in the center and right foreground, including part of the brightly lit Terminal Island. The dark peninsula to the left of San Pedro is Palos Verdes.
Terminal Island in the background, and Mormon Island in the foreground, sometime before 1942
"Shinto Temple in Japanese Fishing Village Terminal Island" photographed late 1930s by the New Deal Federal Writers' Project