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Panama Mount (Los Angeles, California) | military

USA / California / Rancho Palos Verdes / 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
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Coordinates:   33°42'31"N   118°17'38"W
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