This group of 82nd Airborne military re-enactors meet regularly to train and practice military activities at Fort MacArthur. They are outfitted with original equipment, as the 82nd Airborne would have looked just prior to the Normandy landing. The scene here shows a field company headquarters, with the company clerk and commanding officer, doing "paper work". Fort MacArthur was formally created on October 31, 1914, named in honor of Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, father of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. It was a training center during World War I, and the first large gun batteries for harbor defense were installed in 1917. The fort was decommissioned in 1976 and was turned over to the city of Los Angeles in 1982. Fort MacArthur Museum was established three years later at Battery Osgood-Farley. Two emplacements are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Battery Osgood-Farley (in 1976) and Battery John Barlow and Saxton (in 1982). Photograph dated September 2001.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm. Photographic prints
United States.--Army Military training camps--California--Los Angeles Military museums--California--Los Angeles Military bases--California--Los Angeles Military uniforms Historical reenactments--California--Los Angeles San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fort MacArthur (Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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