Battery 122
USA /
Virginia /
Cape Charles /
World
/ USA
/ Virginia
/ Cape Charles
World / United States / Virginia
Second World War 1939-1945, military, artillery battery
The two massive casemated guns here worked in concert with four similar 16-inch guns at Fort Story in Va. Beach to close the Chespapeake Bay to hostile warships during WWII.
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Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°7'53"N 75°57'3"W
- Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story 24 km
- Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek 31 km
- Naval Air Station Oceana (NTU/KNTU) 34 km
- Naval Air Station Oceana - Dam Neck Annex 36 km
- Norfolk, Virginia 38 km
- Langley Air Force Base (LFI/KLFI) 39 km
- Naval Station Norfolk (NGU/KNGU) 39 km
- Battle of Hampton Roads 45 km
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress (NFE/KNFE) 51 km
- Fort Eustis 60 km
- Fisherman Inlet Bridges 2.5 km
- Fisherman Island 4.2 km
- Kiptopeke State Park 4.4 km
- North Channel Bridges 5.5 km
- Fourth Island 14 km
- Chesapeake Channel Tunnel 15 km
- Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 15 km
- Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater 15 km
- Third Island 16 km
- Northampton County, Virginia 18 km