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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery, Battery Command Center, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island 5-Inch Antiaircraft Battery, Battery Command Center, Ford Island, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

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Summary

Significance: This antiaircraft battery command center and its gun emplacements are associated with the hasty construction of nine 5-inch antiaircraft defensive positions in the months after the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when an invasion of Oahu was thought to be imminent. Some of the 5-inch guns and gun directors used in the batteries were salvaged from ships damaged and/or sunk during the attack, possibly including the 5-inch guns of this battery
Survey number: HAER HI-85-A
Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000940

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1950 - 1970
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Honolulu District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Designer
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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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