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The 14th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.It served as the Regular Army component of the Harbor Defenses (HD) of Puget Sound, Washington state from 1924 through October 1944, when it was broken up and disbanded as part of an Army-wide reorganization.
"Records of U.S. Army Coast Artillery Districts and Defenses, 1901-1942" at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration; Insignia of the Coast Artillery Corps by Mark Berhow Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine at Coast Defense Study Group "Government Plans Call For 14 Coast Artillery Units", The Harvard Crimson, 26 April 1919
The 10-inch Gun M1895 (254 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945. For most of their history they were operated by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps.
The 248th Coast Artillery was organized as a battalion 1 May 1924 as the Washington National Guard component of the Harbor Defenses of Puget Sound (HD Puget Sound), Washington. The 14th Coast Artillery was the Regular Army component of those defenses. [1] [2] The 248th's primary armory was in Tacoma, Washington. In May 1944 the regiment was ...
The 14-inch Gun M1907 (356 mm) and its variants the M1907MI, M1909, and M1910 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945. They were operated by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps .
In 1901 the artillery batteries were redesignated, with the light batteries becoming numbered artillery batteries and the heavy batteries at the forts becoming coast artillery companies, all still part of the Artillery Corps. In 1907 the coast artillery companies were split off as the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, with the light ...
The 212th Coast Artillery was a Coast Artillery regiment in the New York National Guard. ... Washington; Regiment broken up 10 September 1943 at Seattle, Washington ...
A Harbor Defense Command was a military organization of the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps designated in 1925 from predecessor organizations dating from circa 1895. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It consisted of the forts, controlled underwater minefields , and other coastal defenses of a particular harbor or river.