[Milsurplus] Visit to Ft. Moultrie

Unserviceable but Repairable cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org
Sat Nov 24 13:06:37 EST 2007


This and Ft. Sumpter guardded the entrance to Charleston (SC) harbor.  
Someone wrote about a stop @ this Nat'l Park Svc. site some time back.  
It was said quite a few BC-779s present behind a plexi window.

Ft. Moultrie's wsa once a coastal artillery site run by both Navy & Army 
'til 1947.  A curator named Greg found a ww2 foto & repro'd it 
faithfully - or like Laura Croft, just found old WVEH intact after he 
reentered the room

There ARE six BC-779s and, catch this, two 32RAs.  At last, a real life
example of their employment!

Have pictures & will put on web.

Color me happy to have found those 32RAs as-employed 60 years back

But wait, that's not all.  "Jasper Battery" there had 10" Spanish-
American era disappearing guns that stayed in place 'til 1943.  AND
there's a continuous-loop video of them in service.

   Marty


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