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Battery Worth, Fort Casey State Park, Whidby Island, Washington (Steve Kobylk, April 2006)
Battery Chamberlin, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, California, 2006.

Firing a 12-inch gun on a M1917 barbette carriage 1930s (NARA).

The replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon sailing in front of the Third System seacoast defense works Battery Weed (on the shoreline) and Fort Tomkins (behind and above) at the New York harbor narrows. Photo taken August of 2009 by Phil Gilson, Brooklyn, NY.

Two 12-inch mortars at Battery Laidley in Fort DeSoto Park, near St. Petersburg, Florida in 2010

16 inch Navy MkIII gun on Army Proof Carriage at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (2005)



Base end station with a depression position finder (DPF) scope (courtesy of John Martini)

The crest of the "Gridiron Club" of Fort Monroe 1920 featuring the Oozlefinch