Fort De Russy (2)

Fort De Russy (2) (1904-1949) - An Taft Period Coastal Fort first established in 1904 in Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Named Fort De Russy in G.O. 15, 1909, after Bvt. Brigadier General René Edward De Russy, a graduate and later Superintendent of the United States Military Academy who served in the U.S. Civil War as a designer of fortifications. Redesignated as a Armed Forces Recreation Center in 1949.

Fort De Russy 1938 Aerial View

Taft Period (1906-1915)

Part of the Harbor Defense of Honolulu.

The 1 Feb 1906 report of the Taft coastal defenses board recommended that Hawaii, specifically Honolulu and Pearl Harbor, be protected by coastal artillery batteries. The list of recommended armament included sixteen 12" mortars, six 12" guns and four 6" guns. Initially, four forts were established to provide the gun batteries, Fort Kamehameha, Fort Ruger, Fort De Russy and Fort Armstrong. Fort De Russy was to receive the largest of the batteries, with two 14" guns, and two smaller 3" guns.

Fort De Russy (2) Taft Period Battery (edit list)

Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery Randolph	2	14"	Disappearing	1908-1913-1913-1944	$ 428,894
Battery Dudley	2	6"	Disappearing	1909-1913-1913-1946	$ 75,000	Destroyed in 1969
Source: CDSG

Fort De Russy 1922 Plan

World War I (1917-1918)

Post construction began in 1916 with the construction of two company barracks buildings and a multipurpose building that housed the headquarters, px, theater, guardhouse and dispensary. Next built was a set of field officer quarters and six sets of company grade officer quarters followed by six sets of NCO quarters. World War I did not affect service at the fort very much but after the end of the war an additional barracks and a bachelor officers quarters were added to the post.

World War II (1941-1945)

Fort De Russy (2) World War II Battery (edit list)

Battery Click on Battery links below	No.	Caliber	Type Mount	Service Years	Battery Cost	Notes
Battery AMTB - Fort De Russy	2 2	90mm 90mm	Fixed Pedestal Mobile	1943-1943-1943-1946	$ ?	Destroyed
Source: CDSG

Cold War (1947-1991)

Redesignated as a Armed Forces Recreation Center in June 1949.

Current Status

Part of Fort De Russy Recreation Center, Honolulu County, Hawaii. The U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii is located in Battery Randolph on the grounds nothing remains of Battery Dudley and Battery AMTB - Fort De Russy.

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Location: Fort De Russy, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Maps & Images Lat: 21.280802 Long: -157.833035 Multi Maps from ACME Maps from Bing Maps from Google Elevation: '

Sources:

• Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 241-242
• Dorance, William H., Fort DeRussy, The Coast Defense Study Group Journal, Vol 12, Issue 1, February 1998, page 16-29
• Gaines, Willian C., A History of Fort De Russy, The Coast Defense Study Group Journal, Vol 24, Issue 4, November 2010, page 47-95
• CDSG

Links:

• North American Forts - Fort De Russy
• Russy_Military_Reservation Wikipedia - Fort De Russy
• Wikipedia - U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii

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