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American Harbor Defenses:
Forts, Gun Batteries, Weapons, Personnel, Structures, Equipment
the Columbia River &Puget Sound Harbor Defenses
Seacoast Defenses of the United States—a brief history
US Seacoast Artillery Forts & Batteries 1794-1950
Researching US Seacoast Defense: References and the National Archives
The Coast Artillery Corps
Photo Galleries of Surviving American Seacoast Artillery
List of American Remaining Coast Artillery Artifacts
The Battery Pratt Restoration Project at Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon
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The replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon sailing in front of the Third System seacoast defense works Battery Weed (on the shoreline) and Fort Tomkins (behind and above) at the New York harbor narrows. Photo taken August of 2009 by Phil Gilson, Brooklyn, NY.
Two 12-inch mortars at Battery Laidley in Fort DeSoto Park, near St. Petersburg, Florida in 2010
16 inch Navy MkIII gun on Army Proof Carriage at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (2005)
The crest of the "Gridiron Club" of Fort Monroe 1920 featuring the Oozlefinch