Battery Wallace - Marin County, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 49.511 W 122° 31.710
10S E 541494 N 4186524
A historic site from WWII.
Waymark Code: WMKC5F
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/17/2014
Views: 3
"Originally built in 1919 as a pair of open-air firing platforms, Battery Wallace featured a new generation of guns designed to meet advances in battleship gunnery that allowed vessels to fire farther from shore. The two 12-inch caliber guns installed here were mounted on carriages that allowed them to be elevated to 4iigh angles, which gave them a firing range of 17 mires. During World War II, another advance in warfare technology posed a challenge for coastal defense forces—the threat of aerial attack from aircraft carriers. Battery Wallace's open platforms left the weapons and their crews exposed to enemy attack, particularly from airplanes. To protect and camouflage them, the army covered the guns with this concrete and earth structure, built between 1942 and 1943."
Admission Fee: 0
Opening Days/Times:
Dawn to Dusk
Related Website: Not listed
Supplementary Related Website: Not listed
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