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Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

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Oakland Army Base, Warehouse Type, Tobruk Street, between Warehouse Road & Fifteenth Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

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Summary

Significance: Buildings 802-808 played a vital role in the Installation's mission to resupply U.S. forces in the Pacific during both World War II and the Korean engagement. Materiel was shipped by rail and truck directly to OARB where it was processed and crated in these huge warehouses for shipment overseas.
Survey number: HAER CA-125-I
Building/structure dates: 1941-1942 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1946 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bechtel-McCone-Parsons Corporation
The Army Port Contractors
MacDonald & Kahn, Inc.
The Utah Construction Company
W.A. Bechtel
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Location

West Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)37.80887, -122.28054
Google Map of 37.80886770000001, -122.2805421
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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