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U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Gunnery School, Bingham Way between Minteer Street & Lawrence Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

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U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, Gunnery School, Bingham Way between Minteer Street & Lawrence Road, Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI

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Significance: Building 455 & 1391 were originally one structure. Building 455 was constructed as a gunnery school in 1943. The fleet gunnery school which occupied Building 445 was organized as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It became the largest naval gunfire school in the Pacific during WWII and trained thousands of Navy gunners.
Survey number: HABS HI-311-E
Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction

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1950 - 1970
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