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San Pedro in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
 

Battery Osgood-Farley Historic Site

Home of the Fort MacArthur Museum

— Battle Honors, Third Coast Artillery —

 
 
Battle Honors, Third Coast Artillery image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
1. Battle Honors, Third Coast Artillery
Inscription.
War of 1812
Fort Nelson, VA. - June 22, 1813
Fort Oswego, NY. - May 5-6, 1814
Mexican War
Palo Alto - May 8. 1846
Resaca de la Palma - May 9, 1846
Monterey (sic) - Sept. 21-23, 1846
Vera Cruz - March 9-28, 1847
Cerro Gordo · Contreras · Churubusco · Molino del Rey · Chapultepec
Indian Wars
Seminole - 1832-39
Creek - 1836
Cherokee - 1838
Seminole - 1849-50
Rogue River -1855
Washington - 1858
Civil War
Blackburn’s Ford - July 18, 1861
Bull Run - July 21, 1861
Peninsula Campaign - Sept. 1862
Newbridge - 1862
Gaines Mill - 1862
Mechanicsville - 1862
Malvern Hill - June 30, 1862
Vicksburg - 1863
Philadelphia, Tenn. - Oct. 16, 1863
Campbell Sta. Tenn. - Nov. 16, 1863
Knoxville Tenn. - Nov. 17 - Dec 5, 1863
Blaines Cross Roads - Dec. 7, 1863
Laurel Hill - Oct. 7, 1864
Fort Fisher, N.C. - 1864
Wilderness - May 5-14, 1864

Philippine Insurrection - 1890-99
China Relief Expedition - 1900
World War II Dec. 8. 1941 – Sep. 15, 1945

A.D. MCMXLII
U.S.A. CLXVI
 
Erected by U.S. Army. (Marker Number 515.)
 
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in these topic lists: Air & Space • War, Cold • War, Mexican-American • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument series list. A significant historical month for this entry is March 1820.
 
Location. 33° 42.734′ N, 118° 17.774′ W. Marker is in Los Angeles, California, in Los Angeles County. It is in San Pedro. It can be reached from Leavenworth Drive west of Gaffey Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro CA 90731, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in California’s Transverse Ranges. It is also on the American Pacific Coast. Globally, it is in North America, on the Ring of Fire, in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also Mexico’s Alta California.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Korean Friendship Bell (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Fort MacArthur (approx. 0.2 miles away); Point Fermin Lighthouse (approx. half a mile away); Stephen M. White (approx. 0.6 miles away); Cabrillo Beach Bath House (approx. Ύ mile away); a different marker also named Fort MacArthur (approx. 0.8 miles away); Casa de San Pedro (approx. 0.9 miles away); Japanese Americans at White Point (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Los Angeles.
 
Fort MacArthur Museum and Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
2. Fort MacArthur Museum and Marker
The entrance to Battery Farley bunker is left of the flagpole.
sectionhead>More about this marker. Battery Osgood-Farley is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 515, designated in 1991.
 
Also see . . .
1. Fort MacArthur. (Submitted on December 27, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
2. 3rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, U.S. Army. (Submitted on December 27, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
3. California and the 2nd World War: The Attacks on the SS Barbara Olson and SS Absoroka. (Submitted on December 27, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
4. Nike Missle Air Defense System. (Submitted on December 30, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
5. 47th Artillery Brigade. (Submitted on December 30, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
 
Additional keywords. Guardian of Angels Gate, 3d Air Defense Artillery, 477 ADA Brigade, Nike Missile, Battle of Los Angeles
 
National Register of Historic Places image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, circa December 8, 2011
3. National Register of Historic Places
Fort MacArthur Museum Entrance image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
4. Fort MacArthur Museum Entrance
Fort MacArthur - Upper Reservation image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
5. Fort MacArthur - Upper Reservation
Battery Farley image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
6. Battery Farley
Parapet for 14-inch disappearing cannon.
Battery Osgood image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
7. Battery Osgood
Parapet for 14-inch disappearing cannon.
Battery "241" image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
8. Battery "241"
Abandoned emplacements for 6-inch armored turret guns, near the Korean Friendship Bell.
Fort MacArthur Museum galleries image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
9. Fort MacArthur Museum galleries
In bombproof tunnel below Battery Farley
San Pedro installations in 1937 & 1943 image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
10. San Pedro installations in 1937 & 1943
Note the altered geography in 1943 - a result of the extensive employment of camouflage over recognizable land forms.
Local news, WWII image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
11. Local news, WWII
Sinking of lumber freighter, S.S. Absorka by Japanese sub off Point Fermin, December 24, 1941; three crewmen killed.
Local news, WWII image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
12. Local news, WWII
The Elmwood Oil Field bombardment by a Japanese submarine, 25 Feb 42.
1942 Relocation Order image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
13. 1942 Relocation Order
“Instructions to All Persons Of Japanese Ancestry” originally posted on a telephone pole on the corner of 16th and Caroline here in San Pedro.
Angels Gate Park entrance off Gaffey Street image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 8, 2011
14. Angels Gate Park entrance off Gaffey Street
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on June 5, 2024. It was originally submitted on December 26, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. This page has been viewed 3,534 times since then and 186 times this year. Last updated on March 19, 2015, by J. Makali Bruton of Washington, District of Columbia. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. submitted on December 27, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.   14. submitted on December 30, 2011, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.

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