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The Fort Caswell Rifle Range located in Caswell Beach NC, is a discontiguous part of Fort Caswell which defended Confederate positions on the North Carolina coast during the Civil War and served both as an army training ground in World War I and a patrol/ communications base in World War II.
The rifle range site is located a little over two miles to the west-northwest of the fort in the Town of Caswell Beach. Typical of coastal southeastern North Carolina, the natural topography of the site is flat, roughly ten feet above sea level with a wide sandy beach along its southern boundary.
WWII target range, island is shifting and fort is breaking up New York: Camp Hero: Montauk Point: Long Island Sound: World War II: 1944: 1948: 1981: Large decommissioned AN/FPS-35 radar on site North Carolina: Fort Fisher: Federal Point/Pleasure Island: Wilmington: Civil War: 1862: 1865: 1865: Confederate-built North Carolina: Fort Caswell: Oak ...
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Also a part of the Fort Caswell Historic District but located further west in the Caswell Dunes area is the Fort Caswell Rifle Range used by WW I soldiers for target practice. [28] Brunswick County in the Great War [ 29 ] published in 2020 contains a 25-page section with numerous rifle pit photos and diagrams along with biographic sketches of ...
The M24 was the primary sniper rifle of the U.S. Army from 1988 until the 2010s but has been replaced by the M2010 and M110, faster-firing semi-automatic sniper rifles with greater range.
Oak Island is located on the Atlantic Ocean coast in Brunswick County, North Carolina near the South Carolina border. A barrier island, it contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell (since 1949 home to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly) and the Oak Island Coast Guard Station which is co-located with the Oak Island Lighthouse.
Video shows a teenager allegedly waving a gun in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, before standing off with deputies after running into the water.