Biddeford Pool Gun Battery - Location 156 (Site 1B)

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A temporary battery of four 155mm guns on tractor-drawn carriages was emplaced on circular concrete "Panama mounts" at Biddeford Pool, Maine from 1942 - 1944. Biddeford Pool was under the umbrella of the Portland Harbor Defense Command, manned by Battery F, 240th Coast Artillery Regiment (Harbor Defense), Maine National Guard beginning on December 12, 1941 (in temporary field emplacements). The Panama mounts were completed in January 1942. In February 1943 Battery E, 22nd Coast Artillery Regiment (Harbor Defense), US Army was rotated out to Biddeford Pool for eight months to man the guns, before moving back to the Pulpit Rock AMTB battery in Rye, NH, in October 1943. The four guns remained here, unmanned, until they were removed in early 1944.

At least three of the Panama mounts still survive, located along the 4th green of the Abenakee Golf Club course near East Point, north of L.B. Orcutt Blvd..

GPS for Biddeford Pool Gun Battery - N 43° 26'49.2" W 70° 20'21.0" (NAD 83)

Located at Biddeford Pool, Biddeford, Maine.

A 155mm M1918 gun on mobile carriage, located at Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma.

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