Fort DeRussy is a United Statesmilitary reservation in the Waikiki area of Honolulu, Hawaii under the jurisdiction of the United States Army. Unfenced and largely open to public traffic, the installation consists mainly of landscaped greenspace. The official military functions aboard the fort consist of a few modest office buildings, the Hale Koa Hotel(an MWR facility), and a museum open to the public.
Fort DeRussy in Honolulu is one of five Forts DeRussy in the United States. The other four forts (two in Louisiana, one in Kentucky, and one in Washington, D.C.) were all built during the American Civil War. All of the forts were named for two brothers, Lewis and René Edward De Russy. (The National Park Service errs in its claim that the fort in Washington was named for Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy, a son of Rene and a nephew of Lewis.) Lewis and Rene were both graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Lewis was the oldest West Point graduate to serve in the Confederate Army, while older brother Rene served on the Union side.
U. S. Army Museum of Hawai'i
The U.S. Army Museum of Hawai'i is housed inside Battery Randolph, an old coastal artillery battery. The museum's collection contains some WW II armor pieces, an AH-1 Cobrahelicopter, and small arms indoors, as well as the battery itself. The exhibits cover the history of US Army warfare in the Pacific hemisphere.
