 The need for more permanent dockside Army passenger, warehousing and shipping facility was recognized and the Brooklyn Army Base, redesignated the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT) 1 October 1955, was constructed from existing terminal and docking facilities in Owls Head, Brooklyn, not far from Fort Hamilton, beginning in 1918.The port managed the return of the American Expeditionary Force from France during 1919 and of the American Forces in Germany, 1919–1923 as well as postwar transport related to support of forces in Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone.In December 1919 , home ported at the port, transported Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman along with 240 people considered Communists and radicals from the NYPOE to Hango, Finland.