Author: Matthew W. KentPublisher: Matthew W. Kent
ISBN: 1615841636
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Harbor Defenses of San Francisco
Author: Matthew W. KentPublisher: Matthew W. Kent
ISBN: 1615841636
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate
Author: Brian B. ChinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780929521855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate
Author: Brian B. ChinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780976149477
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Artillery at the Golden Gate tells the story of the "concrete soldiers," the US Army coast artillerymen who manned the huge seacoast rifles and underwater minefields guarding the San Francisco harbor during World War II. Artillery at the Golden Gate recreates the atmosphere of wartime San Francisco and recounts in vivid detail the life of the Army coast artillerymen stationed in a world of full-alerts and combat discipline within sight of San Francisco. Based on interviews with veterans and supported by official records, press accounts, and over 170 historical photographs, this book paints a rich mosaic of memorable Army personalities and their intriguing experience in the wartime port city.
Harbor Defenses of San Francisco - Lands End, Point Lobos, Sutro Heights
Author: Matthew KentPublisher:
ISBN: 9781532397240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historical and Pictorial Review of the Harbor Defenses of San Francisco
Author: Charles Daeker BaylisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Historic Resource Study
Author: Erwin N. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Harbor Defenses of San Francisco
Author: Matthew W. KentPublisher:
ISBN: 9781450782654
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A History of San Francisco Harbor Defense Installations
Author: Emanuel Raymond LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery, Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, Praying for an Appropriation by Congress for the Construction of Harbor Defenses at the Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
New York City's Harbor Defenses
Author: Leo PolaskiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738512334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The great seaport of New York, one of the largest and busiest natural harbors in the world, was defended for nearly four centuries by a series of more than sixty coastal fortifications. These fortifications were occupied by the Dutch, then the British, and finally, the Americans, who after winning their independence, needed to protect the country they had established. New York City's Harbor Defenses, with more than two hundred vintage photographs, reveals the unusual history of these coastal and island forts and tells of the men and women who served at them during peacetime and while the country was at war. Most of these fortifications are no longer active, but they can still be visited. Gone are the mighty guns, some of which could fire a twenty-four-hundred-pound shell a distance of twenty-six miles. Many of the buildings constructed during national emergencies have been leveled, and the millions of soldiers who lived, trained, and served their country there are absent. This visual history shows what once were the extensive fortifications that defended New York City's harbor.