Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles

1910-1947

Los Angeles Harbor Defenses, 1934

Fort MacArthur, Point Fermin, San Pedro, CA

White Point Military Reservation, San Pedro, CA

Long Point Military Reservation, Palos Verdes, CA

Bolsa Chica Military Reservation, Huntington, Beach, CA

Other locations
“Eubanks”/2/ 8″/RY/1942-1945/Manhattan Beach, destroyed
Lodor/4/ 3″/P/1919-1927/Deadman’s Island, destroyed
JAAN #2/2/ 3″/P/1942-1946/Bluff Park, Long Beach, guns from Lodor
AMTB Terminal Is./2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Terminal Island, covered
AMTB Bluff Park/2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/Bluff Park, Long Beach, buried?
unnamed/3/155 mm/PM/1942/Costa Mesa (only two guns assigned), dest
unnamed/3/155 mm/PM/1942/Rocky Point (only two guns assigned), dest
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/El Segundo/Hyperion, orig 2 6-in NP, dest.
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Playa Del Rey, destoyed
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Pacific Palisades, destroyed
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Port Hueneme, buried/destroyed
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Oxnard, destroyed
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Ventura, in surf 1992
unnamed/2/155 mm/PM/1942/Santa Barbara, destroyed/

Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles (California Military Museum)

Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles (FortWiki)

Fort MacArthur and the Harbor Defenses of Los Angeles (Fort MacArthur Museum)

A history of Fort MacArthur, HDLA, and the 3rd Coast Artillery Regiment:

PDF Guardian at Angeles Gate: Fort MacArthur Defender of Los Angeles

For information on HDLA in WWII download these files

PDF HDLA in WWII (From the History of the Western Defense Command)

PDF HDLA in WWII (Reprint of a special issue of the Fort MacArthur Alert 1945)