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The private property owners Gulf Coast Rod, Reel and Gun Club, and the GCA which manages the Pass property, filed this suit to protect the Pass from being filled in with dirt and closed completely, which would decimate an already storm-ravaged area and cause extreme hardship to restaurants, retail stores, bait shops, and other businesses ...
When the United States gained independence in 1783, the seacoast defense fortifications were in poor condition. Concerned by the outbreak of war in Europe in 1793, the Congress created a combined unit of "Artillerists and Engineers" to design, build, and garrison forts in 1794, appointed a committee to study coast defense needs, and appropriated money to construct a number of fortifications ...
Endicott Program battery with two guns on disappearing carriages. In 1885 the Board of Fortifications, chaired by Secretary of War William C. Endicott, met to lay the groundwork for a new coast defense system. New defenses were recommended for 27 harbors and river estuaries; most of the board's recommendations were implemented in what was often ...
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
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It supported the USAAF Gulf Coast Training Center pilot training in the Southeast United States. The airfield originally had three runways, with a large L-shaped concrete parking apron. It was under the control of Foster Field, Victoria, Texas, as a sub-base.
BL 8 inch Mk VII naval gun disappearing gun United Kingdom: 1885 - 1900 203: 8-inch gun M1888 United States: 1895 - 1945 203: 8-inch Navy gun MkVIM3A2 United States: 1941 - 1946 203: 20.3 cm/45 Type 41 naval gun Japan: World War II 210: 21 cm SK L/40 Nazi Germany: World War II 210: 21 cm SK L/45 Nazi Germany: World War II 229: RML 9 inch Mk VI ...
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