Even with careful research and editing, mistakes sometimes creep in to a manuscript. This is where I correct them.

• On page 4 of the first edition only, the highest point in the Santa Monica Mountains is misstated as Calabasas Peak. The 3,111-foot mountain is actually Sandstone Peak.

• On page 16 in the first edition, earthquake fatality Clarence Wayne Dean is incorrectly identified as an officer with the California Highway Patrol. Officer Dean was a veteran motor officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. He died driving to work in the dark after the Jan. 17, 1994 earthquake when his motorcycle plunged off a freeway bridge in Newhall Pass that had partially collapsed.

• Also in the first printing only, the L.A. Times photograph on page 109 shows a Lockheed assembly line manufacturing P-38 pursuit planes. The caption erroneously describes the craft as Lodestar transports.