Coastal Defenses and US History: The Endicott Era

YouTube ^ | 02-17-2020 | The History Guy

[NRx]

A brief history of the development of coastal defense in US history.

[yarddog]

Interesting.

There are several batteries built on Santa Rosa Island across from Pensacola. When visiting Fort Pickens one can also tour the batteries which dated from The Spanish American War.

[SunTzuWu]

The History Guy is one of the better YouTube channels. Well worth the time.

[wally_bert]

No “fort Benson”?

I couldn’t resist the lame attempt at humor.

Will watch later.

History is a favorite subject of mine.

[Sasparilla]

There’s a Concrete WWII 155mm coastal gun mount overlooking the Panama City ship channel near the entrance on the west side. Another washed off a big sand dune hill & is resting on the beach about 200 yards west from the one still standing.

[joe fonebone]

The “Triangle of Fire” including Fort Ebey on Whidbey Island....

[Sequoyah101]

Another great History Guy production!

[jmacusa]

Here in NJ just below Sandy Hook there were coastal gun batteries. I think they were still there in the early '60s, having been replaced with Nike missile batteries.