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Third System seacoast defense works Battery Weed (on the shoreline) and Fort Tomkins (behind and above) at the New York harbor narrows. Photo taken February 2006 by Phil Gilson, Brooklyn, NY.

Castle Williams, a Second System fort on Governers Island in New York Harbor, circa 1870s. The flag pole to the left in the photo is in the parade ground of adjacent Fort Jay. Photo from the collection of Bill Cole.


16 inch Navy MkIII gun on Army Proof Carriage at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (2005)

One of the 16 inch rifles of Battery Williston, Fort Weaver, in Hawaii in the 1920s. Photograph courtesy Phil Whaley (pwhaley2@cogeco.ca)

The crest of the "Gridiron Club" of Fort Monroe 1920 featuring the Oozlefinch
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