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Joel Klenck, Poloa World War II Defensive Fortifications, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, Accepted 11-14-2012.
Abstract
Archaeologist Joel Klenck completed an NRHP Nomination of the Poloa Site, located along the coast at the village of Poloa, in western Tutuila, the largest island in American Samoa. The site is associated with three features comprising multisided, flat-topped, pillbox observation posts. These fortifications were built during the World War II era and comprise unique architecture, thin stanchions supporting a flattened concrete ceiling. These defensive fortifications are atypical of other defensive fortifications in the evidenced during this period including the robust domed-top pillboxes throughout the island such as those discovered at Afao. The material paucity that characterize the observation posts at Poloa prompts questions as to why these fortifications were constructed differently compared to other defensive architecture throughout Tutuila during World War II.
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