The last of the military buildings here were sold as surplus in 1949.Ībalone Point Fire Control Station (Crystal Cove State Park). Operations were run out of Fort MacArthur and the battery here was named Battery Harry J. Two batteries were planned here, but only one was completed. This was one of a series of coastal artillery installation, with large rotating gun emplacements. The government acquired some 770 acres here in May 1942, including the clubhouse of the old Bolsa Chica Gun Club, which was used for housing. The men (German soldiers, not Nazi officers, the newspapers stressed) picked oranges, harvested crops, and worked at the Santa Ana Army Air Base during their confinement.īolsa Chica Military Reservation (Huntington Beach). Barracks and a defensive perimeter were built and the first 250 prisoners arrived in June. Construction began in March 1945 on a 15-acre facility on the south side of Garden Grove Boulevard, east of Palm Street, to house German POW’s near the end of the war.
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