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- Fort Miley: Battery
Loren H. Call
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- Battery Loren H. Call was built for the
5 inch M1900 guns mounted on M1903 pedestal mounts removed from
Battery Ledyard, Fort McDowell, during the Japanese scare of
1914-1915. It was completed in 1916 and decommissioned in 1921.
Battery Call was disarmed in 1921, the guns sent to Watervliet
Arsenal. The carriages were dismounted scrapped and sold to a
John W. Smith of San Francisco sometime thereafter.
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- The battery was named for aviation pioneer
First Lieutenant Loren H. Call who was killed in an airplane
crash at Texas City, TX on 9 July 1913. The emplacement was destroyed
by subsequent construction for the Veterans Hospital.
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- Layout
of Battery Loren H. Call
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- Drawings courtesy
of Mark Berhow
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