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Stories of Honor 2025: Mare Island's Navy ties date back to 1853

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By Ian Thompson
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VALLEJO — Mare Island was little more than a collection of squatter-occupied shanties and a primitive civilian-owned dry dock when the Navy first noticed it. Two months after California joined the Union, Navy Commodore John Sloat urged President Millard Fillmore that the new state badly needed a shipyard.
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Stories of Honor 2025: Marines' 250-year history includes long stand at Mare Island

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By Ian Thompson
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MARE ISLAND — It was the fear, in the spring of 1861, that pro-Confederate secessionists had designs on taking over, or at least disrupting, the Union’s shipyard at Mare Island, which brought the Marine Corps there. “Possession of Mare Island almost ensured control of the Pacific, because there was located the only dock large enough to handle ocean-going ships,” wrote Lt. Cmdr. Arnold Lott in his history of Mare Island. Newly established shipyard commander Capt.
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Stories of Honor 2025: Solano home to resting places of Medal of Honor recipients

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By Ian Thompson
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FAIRFIELD — One Fairfield man earned the Medal of Honor nursing his crippled B-17 bomber home; a Solano County district attorney earned it for continuing to carry his regiment’s colors despite the grievous wound he suffered at the Battle of the Wilderness; and a Benicia soldier earned it standing alongside Buffalo Bill Cody during an attack on a Sioux encampment. Two of the Medal of Honor recipients earned theirs in Solano County.
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