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The area of 108,863 acres (440.55 km 2) is the largest United States Department of Defense installation in the state of Hawaii, or anywhere in the Pacific.The region was used for live fire exercises in 1943 during World War II when Camp Tarawa temporarily held troops on Parker Ranch. [2]
The Democracy Index classifies many of the forty-five current non-democratic U.S. base hosts as fully "authoritarian governments". [4] Military bases in non-democratic states were often rationalized during the Cold War by the U.S. as a necessary if undesirable condition in defending against the communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Military facilities on the National Register of Historic Places in Hawaii (1 C, 4 P) F. ... Joint Base Pearl Harbor ...
Fort Mason; Camp McQuaide; Camp Santa Anita; Camp Seeley; Camp Stoneman; Camp Young [3] Castle Air Force Base; Desert Training Center; Fort Baker; Fort Ord; Fort Point; Fort Tejon; Fort Winfield Scott; Fort Yuma; Oakland Army Base; Mare Island Naval Shipyard; Mather Air Force Base; McClellan Air Force Base; Presidio of San Francisco; Sacramento ...
Hawaii 21°26′37″N 157°44′56″W / 21.44361°N 157.74889°W / 21.44361; -157.74889 ( Marine Corps Base Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay
Fort DeRussy Beach, 1959. The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaiʻi is housed inside Battery Randolph, a former coastal artillery battery. Battery Randolph was constructed in 1911 to defend Honolulu Harbor on Oahu from attack, and was equipped with two 14-inch guns on disappearing carriages, with a range of about 40,000 yards (37 km). [6]
Fort Monroe, where slaves were first brought to the U.S. colonies, served the Union in Confederate territory. Now a teacher uses it to bolster education of slavery.
Organized 1 October 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Demobilized 22 December 1918 at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Reconstituted 15 January 1921 in the Regular Army as the Hawaiian Railway Battalion; Organized 22 December 1921 at Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii; Redesignated 1 June 1922 as the 41st Artillery Battalion (Railway) (Coast Artillery Corps)