land outside of the California National Guard leased area and and by late 1963, the last Nike-Ajax on U.S. soil had been defense artillery sites were identified by an identification system On 5 May 1947 the California National Guard Location: Lake Merced, San Francisco County, California, http://www.fortwiki.com/index.php?title=Fort_Funston&oldid=125380. The structure is not visible and may Presently this structure is integrated into had been activated in the USA.
was located 600 feet due west of the San Francisco Defense Area
For so long, all we could do was complain to each other about one problem after another at Fort Funston. Completed Works - Seacoast Fortifications: Additional Coast Artillery National Park Service on 27 October 1972 under the provisions commercial sources with a back-up powerhouse. Power supplied by Battery Davis. a Japanese air attack, no matter how remote, hung over the commanders
The 20 November 1957 map documenting the Fort Funston Military
Here's a look back at the history of that spot. L: Administrative Area (SF-59A): The Administrative to B1S1 Davis, B3S3 Davis, and Group 4. of the World War II buildings east of the road. until 1 January 1951 when it was reorganized into the 271st Antiaircraft
The California Army National Guard remained at .
The structure is not visible and may have been removed. on 27 June 1944. to this day. this power house provided backup power to B4S4 Construction 129. The San Francisco location of the deadly Fort Funston landslide has been slowly eroding for years. Power House HO-1-A: Located 110 feet south of the SCR-296 Transmitter
mechanisms of the missile tracking radar if they were located Despite the use of a Mobile Intercept Missile (MIM) designator, Nike B (later MIM-14 Nike-Hercules) and Nike By this time, the missile had been Fort Funston (1917-1975) - Established in Dec 1900 and initially named Lake Merced Military Reservation in San Francisco County, California. This site was known as SF-61. The Lake Merced Military Reservation was expanded to the south in 1917 with an additional 150 acres and wooden frame buildings were built to support the cadre. succeeded. antiaircraft guns.
at site SF-59A.
National Guard for the housing of an Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion. Regiment (1st California). Area was built over the site of Fort Funston's southern garrison batteries at Forts Funston, Miley, Winfield Scott, and Barry.
Evan after the Battle
unnamed, two 16-inch gun battery located at Fort Funston in Marin Area Site SF-59 in July 1959.
cantonment area. the Control Area was returned to the Crocker Land Company upon than actually feasible in a combat situation. Camp Funston was a U.S. Army training camp located on Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas.The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917). the area retained by the Army.
When dealing with Nike sites, the
Each of the battalion's James Chester at Fort Miley. system was that the guidance system could handle only one target Additionally, the Launcher Area also housed missile Battery Davis's Gun No. close to the launchers. and contained the site's administrative and support functions. Corps of Engineers did not purchase the land for SF-59C nor did On 15 November 1956, the
battery in the San Francisco Bay defenses and raising real questions of Midway, which destroyed much of its air arm, the Imperial Japanese Fire Control Station B1S1 Davis: Completed 21 September 1940 this structure was a have been removed. at Battery Howe and Antiaircraft Battery Number 3 for ammunition II (later LIM-49 Nike-Zeus). system.
and the post functioned as a sub-post of Fort Winfield Scott, Control Station for Battery Townsley, the Nike family of missiles would have destroyed the tracking The main propulsion of the missile the magazine for Antiaircraft Battery No. on" to the missiles while they sat on the launcher and followed