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These are the remains of what once was a disappearing gun emplacement at a fortification in a National Park where I used to work. When I finished up in 2013, this gun pit was still full of dirt and the surrounds buried too! I had to go to the offices in the National Park for a meeting about the penguins I look after, so I thought I'd see how the progress here was going.
The disappearing guns were installed at this fort in the early 1900s. While they looked good on paper, they were useless as when the cannon was fired, it gave off smoke revealing their location. They were removed after World War 2 when these fortifications were seen as pointless given the way technology had advanced from the 1800s when the fort complex was first built. Only one small part was continually used as a training area for SAS soldiers going to the Vietnam War. In 1975, the Army buried most of the fortifications with dirt and steel before it was handed over to become part of the National Park
The disappearing guns were installed at this fort in the early 1900s. While they looked good on paper, they were useless as when the cannon was fired, it gave off smoke revealing their location. They were removed after World War 2 when these fortifications were seen as pointless given the way technology had advanced from the 1800s when the fort complex was first built. Only one small part was continually used as a training area for SAS soldiers going to the Vietnam War. In 1975, the Army buried most of the fortifications with dirt and steel before it was handed over to become part of the National Park
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Part of the defense network for New York Harbor was a disappearing gun battery. I visited it many years ago, and was impressed by the scale of the thing, essentially a man-made mountain of dirt, stone and concrete. It would have made a great target for an attacking battleship.
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