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The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States and its possessions between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also operated heavy and railway artillery during World War I .
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.
Shortly thereafter, in 1907, Congress split the field artillery and coast artillery into separate branches, creating a separate Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) The CAC was disbanded as a separate branch in 1950. [10] In the first decade of the 20th century, the United States Marine Corps established the Advanced Base Force. The force was used for ...
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 10th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. It primarily served as the Regular Army coast artillery component of the Harbor Defenses (HD) of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island from 1924 through 1944, when it was relieved and disbanded as part of an Army-wide reorganization.
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
United States Army Coast Artillery Corps; 0–9. 27th Coast Artillery (United States) 198th Signal Battalion (United States) 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment; B.
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.