Guarding San Francisco
Among the defensive installations in the photo essay are Battery Chamberlin, Battery Spencer, Fort Point (constructed during the California Gold Rush), Battery Townsley (with its 16-inch guns) in the Marin Headlands, machine gun nests in the Presidio, antiaircraft sites in the Marin Headlands, Nike missile site SF-88L in the Marin Headlands (the only remaining Nike (1, 2) missile site in the country). Battery Mendell in the Marin Headlands, and Battery Wallace at Fort Barry. Also shown is a poster of the Oozlefinch, the mascot of the Army’s Air Defense Artillery program, and its motto, “If it flies, it dies.”
Some of the photos are historical, and the photos document a few of the MANY defensive installations designed to protect San Francisco from attack.
Enjoy!
-Bill at
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