The Snapshots in Time Collection

Newspaper Clipping: 'Repair Shop' at U.S. Army Fort Baker Marine Facility, Sixth Army, 1949

Newspaper Clipping: 'Repair Shop' at U.S. Army Fort Baker Marine Facility, Sixth Army, 1949

A 1949 newspaper photograph of the Sixth Army's marine repair shop at Fort Baker, California, shows an 85-foot air-sea rescue 'crash boat' undergoing drydock repair. By this postwar period, the repair shop was one of the few active functions remaining at the historic Golden Gate defense post. Project: 218639