Territory of Hawaii - Military Bases

Military Bases

With annexation, the United States saw Hawaii as its most strategic military asset. McKinley and his successor U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt expanded the military presence in Hawaii and established several key bases, some still in use today. By 1906, the entire island of Oahu was being fortified at the coastlines with the construction of a "Ring of Steel," a series of gun batteries mounted on steel coastal walls. One of the few surviving batteries completed in 1911, Battery Randolph, is today the site of the Hawaii Army Museum.

List of Territorial Installations:

  • Camp McKinley (est. 1898)
  • Fort Kamehameha (est. 1907)
  • Pearl Harbor Naval Station (est. 1908)
  • Fort Shafter (est. 1907)
  • Fort Ruger (est. 1909)
  • Schofield Barracks (est. 1909)
  • Battery Closson (est. 1911)
  • Battery Dudley (est. 1911)
  • Battery Randolph (est. 1911)
  • Fort DeRussy (est. 1915)
  • Wheeler Army Airfield (est. 1922)

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