Panama Mount (Los Angeles, California)
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Twenty-four 155mm mobile guns were used in the Los Angeles area for beach defenses during WW II. These guns were moved by truck and could be rapidly set up on simple concrete circles known as Panama Mounts designed to stabilize the guns and provide a fixed location to aide in fire control.
The Panama Mounts were built at 13 locations in southern California between Santa Barbara and Costa Mesa and each location had facilities for shell storage as well as a makeshift barracks. The guns fired a shell that weighed about 90 pounds a distance of about 10 miles.
www.ftmac.org/155mmGuns.htm
The Panama Mounts were built at 13 locations in southern California between Santa Barbara and Costa Mesa and each location had facilities for shell storage as well as a makeshift barracks. The guns fired a shell that weighed about 90 pounds a distance of about 10 miles.
www.ftmac.org/155mmGuns.htm
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Coordinates: 33°42'31"N 118°17'38"W
- San Clemente Island 80 km
- Special Warfare Training Area Three (SWAT-3), SCI Underwater Range 81 km
- Naval Air Station Point Mugu 94 km
- Naval Construction Battalion Center (CBC), Port Hueneme 100 km
- Port Hueneme, California 101 km
- San Nicolas Island 128 km
- Vandenberg Air Force Base (VBG/KVBG) 254 km
- Naval Air Station Lemoore 336 km
- Camp Roberts 338 km
- Fort Hunter Liggett 392 km
- San Pedro 2.6 km
- Main Channel 3.5 km
- APM Terminals Pier 400 4.6 km
- Terminal Island 6 km
- Los Angeles-Long Beach Port Complex 6.8 km
- Palos Verdes Peninsula 7.3 km
- South Bay 18 km
- Two Harbors, at Santa Catalina Island Isthmus 36 km
- Santa Catalina Island 39 km
- Palisades 44 km