![]() Battery E, 205th Coast Artillery, set sail from Seattle for Seward, Alaska. In June 1941, the units began mobilizing across the West Coast and parts of Alaska. ![]() 3, 1941, to train on what would be a four-year mission of protecting the West Coast and Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. The 205th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft) and 248th Coast Artillery Regiment (Harbor Defense) were called into service Feb. The 205th Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft) Ten months before the events on Pearl Harbor, two Washington National Guard units, the 205th and 248th Coast Artillery Regiment, had been called into federal service at North Fort Lewis to begin training on a highly important mission that would span the course of World War II and beyond. military had already begun preparing for an attack on the mainland. This one event may have been the tipping point, but the U.S. Unknown to them, more than 350 Imperial Japanese bombers, fighter and torpedo planes launched from six aircraft carriers in two waves with their eyes set on the base just outside Honolulu.Ī day that will live in infamy, the attack propelled the United States and President Franklin Roosevelt to declare war on Japan and officially enter World War II. military personnel stationed at Pearl Harbor Naval Base were starting their Sunday routines. ![]() in 1942 (Archive Photo)ĬAMP MURRAY, Wash. A Guardsmen stands watch in Hawthorne, Cal.
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