Category:Harbor Defense of Seward: Difference between revisions

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**Fort Bulkley World War II Battery** (edit list)
Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery 294	2	6"	Shielded Barbette	194?-1944-1944-1944	$ ?	Tac 3 90% Complete
Source: CDSG

**Fort McGilvray World War II Battery** (edit list)
Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery 293	2	6"	Shielded Barbette	1943-NC-1944-1944	$ ?	Tac 2 99% Complete
Battery AMTB - Lowell Point	2 2	90mm 90mm	T3-Fixed M1A1-Mobile	1943-1943-1943-1944	$ ?	RCW indicates 4-90mm guns
Battery 155 - Rocky Point (2)	4	155mm	Panama Mount	194?-194?-1943-1944	$ ?	Tac 1
Source: CDSG

Timeline:

Construction of fixed defenses began 20 Jul 1942 under contract to West Construction Company
Tactical organization authorized and posts named 25 Mar 1943
Deactivation authorized on 23 March 1944
Armament remove and shipped by 31 May 1944
Estimated cost of construction was $ 4,727,000

Sources:

Bush, Colonel James D., Narrative Report of Alaska Construction 1941---1944, USACE, 1944, 1984, CDSG, page 160-164
U.S.Army, Supplement to the Harbor Defense Project Harbor Defenses of Seward, (SHDSR), 1944, CDSG

The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.

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 (F) 59.8381, -149.3811, Fort Bulkley
 (1942-1944)
+(H) 59.8404275, -149.371469, HECP/HDCP
+(M) 59.8380988, -149.3751705, MET Station
+(B) 59.8372282, -149.3825358, Battery 294
 (F) 60.126371, -149.441356, Fort Raymond (2)
 (1942-1944)