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OK, so where is this? - 6/21/2004 3:41:14 AM

brent_2

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my turn for a quiz...

where is this located? extra credit for the proper name...as the names now are not what they were...

right click won't help you...I know that trick too well....

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RE: OK, so where is this? - 6/21/2004 4:03:50 AM

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Battery Hawkins, after BG Hamilton Smith Hawkins. Located at Ft. Kamehameha, covering the entrance to Pearl Harbor.

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RE: OK, so where is this? - 6/21/2004 4:10:09 AM

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Right you are, and quick too!

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Fort Kamehameha
(1907 - 1949/present), Pearl Harbor
Located between Hickam Air Force Base and the International Airport at the east side of the entrance to Pearl Harbor. Originally named Fort Upton, but was soon changed due to public demands. Batteries are Battery Selfridge (1913 - 1945), Battery Closson (1924 - 1948) casemated 1942, Battery Hasbrouck (1914 - 1943), the combined Battery Jackson (1913 - 1943) and Battery Hawkins (1914 - 1943), Battery Ahua (1942 - 1944) three 5-inch naval guns on Ahua Point (one removed in 1943), Battery Barri (1915 - 1924) on Bishop Point, destroyed, Battery Chandler (1915 - 1942) on Bishop Point, destroyed, Anti Motor Torpedo Boat Battery #2 (1943 - 1946), and Battery Kam (1934? - 1943) four mobile 155mm guns. A training firing point for the 155mm guns was established on the beach in 1921. Railway artillery was also used beginning in 1922 (used as a "dummy" battery in WWII). Three AA gun batteries were built here in 1920's. Fire-control station "G" (pre-WWII) was once located here (one tower, gone). A concrete machine-gun pillbox was built in 1934 along the shore. Many more were added during WWII.

Battery Hasbrouk is also still there, unused, in just as good shape as Hawkins, just overgrown and off the road a little bit. The batteries also still exist, but are reused in various ways.

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RE: OK, so where is this? - 6/21/2004 4:44:04 AM

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I love all the old coastal forts, from the earliest periods right up through WWII. I can't wait to land an invasion fleet or two against them, just to see it get slaughtered like the beta testers said in some long-ago thread.