Torrance Municipal Airport (Calif.)

found: Lobb, Charles. Torrance airport, 2006:t.p. (Torrance airport) p. 4 or cover ("Lomita Flight Strip, known today as Zamperini Field, the Torrance Municipal Airport, or TOA") p. 23 (Lomita Flight Strip construction completed, March 31, 1943 and transferred by Army Corps of Engineers to the Fourth Air Force, IV Fighter Command, Los Angeles Fighter Wing) p. 63 (Sept. 1945 Lomita Flight Strip declared surplus by the War Assets Administration (WAA) and quitclaimed on March 28, 1948 to the City of Torrance) p. 63 (City of Torrance released their Airport Master Plan Oct. 13, 1948) p. 66 (Dec. 7, 1946 the City of Torrance named the field Zamperini Field in honor of hometown hero Capt. Louis Zamperini) p. 74 (by the early 1970s, Torrance Municipal Airport had reached its zenith)