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The Coast Artillery was designated to provide the personnel for all US-manned heavy artillery (155 mm gun and larger), almost all railway artillery, and later anti-aircraft artillery units. As with most US Army World War I equipment, these units were primarily equipped with French- and British-made weapons, with few American-made heavy weapons ...
Media in category "Coast artillery regiments of the United States Army" This category contains only the following file. Battery A, (Searchlight) 206th CA 1932.JPG 5,129 × 1,803; 3.91 MB
The weapon is possibly a German-made 28 cm SK L/40 gun on a coast defense mount. Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. [1] In modern times, coastal artillery has generally been replaced with anti-ship missiles, such as the Ukrainian R ...
The 15th Coast Artillery was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army.Along with the 16th Coast Artillery, it manned the Harbor Defenses of Pearl Harbor and other fortified sites on Oahu, Hawaii from 1924 until broken up into battalions in August 1944 as part of an Army-wide reorganization.
This list attempts to list the field artillery regiments of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps. As the U.S. Army field artillery evolved, regimental lineages of the artillery, including air defense artillery, coast artillery, and field artillery were intermingled. This list is only concerned with field artillery.
The 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment in the Florida Army National Guard. The unit was formed 19 October 1923 in the Florida National Guard as the 1st Separate Battalion, Coast Artillery Corps. It was reorganized and redesignated as the 265th Coast Artillery Regiment (CA) (Harbor
Constituted and organized in October 1918 as the 20th Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) (C.A.C.) at Fort Crockett, Texas, but demobilized in November 1918.This was one of a number of Coast Artillery regiments mobilized to operate heavy and railway artillery on the Western Front in World War I, but the Armistice resulted in the dissolution of the 20th.
The 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, later the 59th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was a regiment in the United States Army. It served as a heavy artillery regiment in France in World War I , and was in the Battle of Corregidor , Philippine Islands, in World War II .