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The Coast Artillery would alternate between small unit and regimental organization several times over its history. The head of the Artillery Corps became the Chief of Artillery in the rank of brigadier general with jurisdiction over both types of artillery. [3] [6]
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 51st Coast Artillery Regiment was a United States Army regiment that was activated in 1917 during World War I. The regiment was primarily responsible for defending the coast of the United States against enemy attacks, and it served in this role until the end of the war.
On 13 February 1901, it was reorganized and redesignated as the 77th Company, Coast Artillery, Artillery Corps. It became the 77th Company, Coast Artillery Corps on 2 February 1907, and was redesignated as the 3d Company, Fort Barrancas on 6 July 1916. It became the 3d Company, Coast Defenses of Pensacola on 31 August 1917, and was disbanded at ...
The 249th Coast Artillery continued the history of the Coast Artillery Corps (Fixed Defenses) of the Oregon National Guard, organized in 1911. The Coast Artillery Corps included companies that manned harbor defenses during World War I and was reorganized between 1919 and 1921 with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Companies. [2] [3]
The 13th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.Elements of the regiment served during World War II in the Harbor Defenses of Pensacola (HD Pensacola), HD Key West, HD Galveston, HD Charleston, Temporary HD of New Orleans, and in Bora Bora in the South Pacific.
The 61st Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment in the United States Army. The lineages of some of the units that initially made up the 61st Artillery (Coast Artillery Corps) (CAC) give the regiment's 1st Battalion campaign credit for the War of 1812.
The 53rd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. In World War I it was a railway artillery regiment in France. In World War II it was reactivated with mobile 155 mm guns .