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Hearn is always on the tour list, as is Crockett, because they're easily reached. It is particularly popular with the Japanese tourists who well recall the famous Banzai victory photograph of their troops. The truth of the matter is that neither Hearn or Crockett played any significant role in the hostilities, due to their positions facing squarely towards the South China Sea and the naval assaults that never came. |
Before they set upon Hearn with the paint brushes, it had a patina of age, experience and history. |
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Hearn is a big favorite with the tourists, who mill around it like moths to a flame and take their obligatory "been there, done that" firing-squad type photographs. Captain Herman Hauck put a link of chain in the recoil cylinder of one of Crockett's operational 12-inch guns. If it were ever fired by the Japanese, it would have self-destructed immediately. | |
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There is STILL controversy about the night action of 18-19 February 1945, during which Lloyd McCarter won the CMH. It occurred near to the positions defending Battery Hearn. Bill Calhoun recalls:
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The 12" coastal rifles in action
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Work on the 12" battery began September 1918 and was completed June,1921. The cost of the battery and magazine was $148,105.32 or more than 2 million in today's dollars. Source: Report of Completed Works dated November 1,1921. |
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