Contents CDSG Publications 1992-2011

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Note: for Volumes 6,7, and 8, the listing is by Volume, issue; page number preceeds title of article; author(s) listed after their article.

For Volumes 9 to current, the listing is by Volume, issue, the title of article, page number; author(s) listed under their article.

The Coast Defense Study Group News Volumes 1-5 is indexed in separate webpage.

In 1993 the CDSG News was renamed the CDSG Journal with Volume 7.

In 1995 the CDSG Journal was split into two publications with Volume 9: The CDSG Journal and the CDSG Newsletter. Only the CDSG Journal contents are noted here.

In 2001 the CDSG Journal was renamed the Coast Defense Journal (CDJ).

The current issue is the Coast Defense Journal Volume 25, Issue 4, November 2011.


CDSG News Volume 6, Number 1, February 1992

4 - BUSINESS NEWS

Member news

8 - Book Review: Sydenham Clarke, Fortification

8 - Book Review: Andrew Saunders, Fortress Britain

9 - Video Review: E. Deutsch, 1991 Philippine Tour Video

10 - Miscellaneous Book Announcements

12 - Mythical Singapore Guns

12 - Mystery 4.7" Guns at 'Keno' Illinois

13 - News from the Forts (Miscellaneous)

14 - U.S. Guns to Brazil - Do They Exist?

14 - More Requests For Information (Miscellaneous)

15 - Letters to the Editor

15 - Rose Island Mystery Emplacement

15 - Corrections

16 - Letter from the Editor to Authors

17 - Update, Surviving Breeches/Barrels at San Diego

18 - Plans Ahead for Two Washington State Coastal Forts

Articles

19 - THE TERMINATION OF U.S.ARMY COAST DEFENSES 1945-1948 [including reprints of significant documents] by Konrad F. Schreier, Jr.

32 - A Multi-Part Series on Alaska Defenses (Part 1): ALASKA SEACOAST DEFENSE CONSTRUCTION; FORT MEARS WWII CONSTRUCTION [Dutch Harbor]; FORT RAYMOND, SEWARD, ALASKA, WWII CONSTRUCTION by Col. J.D.Bush CE; submitted by Al Grobmeier

41 - LAND DEFENSES OF OAHU'S FORTS, 1908-1941 by William H. Dorrance

46 - TOO SMALL OR OTHERWISE UNSATISFACTORY: DEADEND EFFORTS IN DEVELOPING A GUN TO PROTECT U.S. SEACOAST BATTERIES by Nelson H. Lawry

51 - FORTS OF EVERYWHERE - SAN JUAN & ROOSEVELT ROADS, P.R. by Robert D. Zink

57 - THE JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES ARTILLERY by Bolling Smith

59 - DATA SHEETS FOR RAILWAY ARTILLERY ARMAMENT by Al Grobmeier

61 - A VISIT TO WATERVLIET ARSENAL by Elliot L. Deutsch

65 - COAST DEFENSE STUDY GROUP SPECIAL TOUR IN HAWAII by Dale E. Floyd


CDSG News Volume 6, Number 2, May 1992

4 - BUSINESS NEWS

Member news

7 - The Danielsville 4.7" Gun Exists

8 - Fort Livingston, Louisiana

10 - U.S.-Made Ordnance Sent Abroad: More Questions

10 - Review: The Industrial Bulwark of The Confederacy

11 - New Publications From/On Fort MacArthur

12 - Reviews: Fortress Alacatraz, Guardian of the Golden Gate

13 - Review: US Nuclear Weapons, The Secret History

13 - Information Wanted (Miscellaneous)

14 - The Coast Artillery Museum at Fort Worden

14 - Book Announcement: Narrow Guage to Noman's Land

14 - Local Get-Together

15 - Trip Report: Savannah, GA to Wilimington, NC

17 - Contacts to Gain Access to Sites - Oahu

19 - Coast Defense Fortifications Open to the Public

22 - Photograph: 12"BLM at Btry Clinton, Fort H.G.Wright

Articles

23 - MORTAR CARRIAGE NOTES by Greg Hagge

32 - FORT MONTGOMERY, ROUSES POINT, NEW YORK by Thomas D. Batha

35 - COAST ARTILLERY PLOTTING BOARDS by F. M. Baldwin

39 - U.S. ARMY MINE PLANTERS by William H. Dorrance

42 - TIME-INTERVAL SYSTEMS by Bolling W. Smith

45 - THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA by Philip Sims

47 - A Multi-Part Series on Alaska Defenses (Part 2): FORT GREELY, KODIAK, ALASKA, WWII CONSTRUCTION by Col. J.D.Bush CE; submitted by Al Grobmeier

52 - FORTS OF WHEREVER #14 - NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA by Robert D. Zink

61 - SURVIVING U.S. COAST ARTILLERY by Terrance McGovern

67 - DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AT BATTERY HARLOW by Elliot L. Deutsch

69 - Fort Caswell Mortars

69 - Gun Displays in the Tampa Bay Area

70 - Miscellaneous Notices


CDSG News Volume 6, Number 3, August 1992

4 - BUSINESS NEWS

Member News

6 - Panama Special-Tour Announcement

7 - St. BABS X (Los Angeles / San Diego) After-Action Report

14 - Book, Etc., Announcements

15 - Requests For Information

16 - Gulf Forts - Things to See and Buy

18 - Canadian Additions to Forts to Visit

19 - Egg Rock Rodmans Re-Emplaced in Bar Harbor -

19 - Jewell Is. Military Reservation - Signs

20 - Fort Worden Searchlight Project Moves Forward

21 - Trip Report: Fort Whitman, Washington

28 - Trip Report: Crimea (harbor defenses)

Articles

31 - ARMY AIR SERVICE / AIR CORPS COASTAL DEFENSE 1919-1914 by William H. Dorrance

37 - CANNON ON THE GREEN by Rev. E.A.Garrett III, submitted by J.Eastman

43 - A Multi-Part Series on Alaska Defenses (Part 3): FORT RAY, SITKA, WWII CONSTRUCTION by Col. J.D.Bush CE, submitted by A.Grobmeier

47 - MINIMUM PORT, NOT A SMALL HARBOR BARELY QUALIFYING FOR DEFENSE by Nelson H. Lawry

49 - SEACOAST CARRIAGES 1886-1915: TYPES AND TOTALS by Nelson H. Lawry

50 - PLOTTING BOARD ACCESSORIES by Frederick M. Baldwin

53 - A DAY ON A TARGET-TOWING TUG by Frederick M. Baldwin

55 - ORDNANCE PUBLICATIONS CONCERNING COAST DEFENSE 1863-1914 by Bolling W. Smith

57 - Reprint [from Naval History]: AFTER THE SEVENTH by Capt. C. Hall USN(ret), submitted by R.Whistler

59 - FORTS OF WHEREVER - GEORGIA & ATLANTIC COAST OF FLORIDA by Robert D. Zink

63 - Photograph of 8" DC at Tampa Florida

64 - Miscellaneous


CDSG News Volume 6, Number 4, November 1992

5 - Report from the Chairman of the Board

MEMBER NEWS

7 - Alaska Defenses, Preservation and Documentation

11 - Reports on Four Forts at Portland, Maine

14 - Mid-Atlantic CDSG 'Members Day' Report

15 - HDSD Remnants Discovered at NAS North Island

16 - More on Bolsa Chica

16 - Fort Caswell Mortars

17 - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

20 - BOOK/LITERATURE REVIEWS

23 - Coast Defense Sites Open to the Public in Finland and Norway [gazateer & trip report by Phil Sims]

33 - Errata /Message from the Publications Committee

ARTICLES

35 - FIFTEENTH COAST ARTILLERY (H.D.) REGIMENT 1924-1944 by William Gaines

45 - RECOLLECTIONS OF BATTERY GUNNISON, FORT HANCOCK, NJ by F. M. Baldwin

49 - THE TEMPORARY HARBOR DEFENSES OF BEAUFORT INLET 1941-5 by William Gaines

53 - EDEN EVELETH WINSLOW AND FAMILY by William H. Dorrance

56 - THE U.S. ARMY MINE PLANTER SERVICE 1901-1929 by Merle T. Cole

59 - FORTS OF WHEREVER #17 - U.S. GULF COAST, PART I, KEY WEST THROUGH MOBILE BAY by Robert D. Zink

66 - OFFICERS OF THE U.S. ARMY AND OTHERS IN HONOR OF WHOM FORTS AND BATTERIES IN HAWAII HAVE BEEN NAMED by Alvin H. Grobmeier


The CDSG News was renamed the CDSG Journal beginning with Volume 7


CDSG Journal Volume 7, Issue 1, February 1993

1 - CDSG February 1993 News

3 - Letter to the Board: CDSG Review

MEMBER NEWS

4 - Odd Bits of Useful Trivia ('Beginner's Notes')

5 - Fort DeSoto Notes

6 - Update on NAS North Island and Coronado Beach

6 - Finnish News

8 - St. BABS X (L.A. & San Diego) Follow-up

9 - C.A. Records Transferred to Regional Archives

10 - Defending Southeast Florida

11 - NEWS OF THE FORTS (Miscellaneous)

12 - BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

14 - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

15 - Fort Taiaroa, Dunedin, New Zealand

17 - Operations and Functions of the CDSG Journal Articles

ARTICLES

20 - EFFORTS TOWARDS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF HARBOR DEFENSE SITES: THE SAGA OF FORT MacARTHUR AND THE HARBOR DEFENSES OF LOS ANGELES 1975-1992  by Mark Berhow

30 - DUTCH HARBOR COASTAL DEFENSES by D. Colt Denfield

37 - HARBOR DEFENSE, SEWARD, ALASKA by D. Colt Denfield

41 - THE ACCIDENT. AT FORT H. G. WRIGHT by Leo Polaski

47 - RAID ON THE HARTLEPOOLS by Philip Sims

51 - REMINISCENSES OF Col. M. F. BURKE

55 - REMINISCENSES OF Col. M. F. GILCHRIST, Jr. by edited by Charles H. Bogart

57 - FORTS OF WHEREVER, FORTS OF THE U.S. GULF COAST, PART II, MISSISSIPPI THRU TEXAS (18th in Series) by Robert D. Zink.


CDSG Journal Volume 7, Issue 2, May 1993

2 - May 1993 CDSG Business News

MEMBER NEWS

3 - C. A. Records Transferred to Regional Archives

4 - Obituary: Richard J. Clifton

5 - Friends of U.S.S. MASSACHUSETTS (BB-2)

7 - Trip Report: Ft. DADE, Tampa, Florida

9 - Trip Report: Southeastern Massachusetts

10 - More on Ft Howard's 'Vietnamese Village'

13 - Book Review: Report of General J.G. Totten -

14 - NEWS FROM THE FORTS

16 - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

17 - BOOK & PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENTS ARTICLES

19 - CDSG PANAMA SPECIAL TOUR TRIP REPORT by Richard T. Whistler

ARTICLES

30 - AN ACCIDENT AT FORT KAMEHAMEHA by William H. Dorrance

33 - 1912 TYPE OR PANAMA FOURTEEN-INCH DISAPPEARING GUN BATTERIES by Bolling W. Smith

49 - 13th COAST ARTILLERY (HARBOR DEFENSE) REGIMENT by William Gaines

59 - GUNS AND MEN: U.S. COAST ARTILLERY TO SOUTH AMERICA by Nelson H. Lawry

63 - RANGE CORRECTION BOARD by Frederick M. Baldwin

65 - NATIONAL GUARD COAST ARTILLERY UNITS 1914 by Charles H. Bogart


CDSG Journal Volume 7, Issue 3, August 1993

1 - CDSG August 1993 Business News

3 - A Discussion of CDSG's Future Projects and Goals

6 - Coast Defense Books In Print

MEMBER NEWS

8 - Corrections and Updates

9 - Some Thoughts on 'The California Accident'

11 - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION

12 - Newspaper Excerpt: Btry Nash

14 - BOOK/MAGAZINE REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

ARTICLES

15 - THE COASTAL AND HARBOR DEFENSES OF GALVESTON, TEXAS by William Gaines

32 - THE FINNISH COAST ARTILLERY by Ove Enqvist

39 - U.S. MARINES AT WAKE ISLAND by Philip Sims

45 - EMPLACEMENT POWERPLANTS by Bolling W. Smith

51 - ALASKA DEFENSES: VARIOUS LOCATIONS by D. Colt Denfield

55 - FORT TILDEN RECOLLECTIONS by F. M. Baldwin

57 - COAST ARTILLERY MANEUVERS, GALVESTON TEXAS, 1911 by Bolling W. Smith

59 - THE FORTS OF WHEREVER (#19) - SAN FRANCISCO by Robert D. Zink


Journal Volume 7, Issue 3, November 1993

1 - CDSG November 1993 Business News

2 - Charles Lee Kimbell ( 1933 - 1993 )

Member news

5 - St BABS XI Coordinator's Report

8 - Letters to the Editor

9 - Some Thoughts on Boresighting

11 - Delivering Ordnance to and on Oahu 1909-15

12 - C.A. Records Transferred to Regional Archives

13 - News from The Forts

15 - Trip Report: Northern C.D. Locations

17 - Trip Report: Northeast Locations

18 - Trip Report: Bermuda

19 - Book Announcements & Local Meetings

ARTICLES

21 - THE COASTAL AND HARBOR DEFENSES OF KEY WEST by William Gaines

31 - IMPERIAL GERMAN INVASION PLANS AND LANDWARD DEFENSE OF THE PATAPSCO RIVER FORTS by Merle T. Cole

44 - RETURN TO THE MANUFACTURER: UNDESIGNATED VARIANTS OF U.S. 8-INCH BARBETTE CARRIAGE, MODEL 1892 by Nelson H. Lawry & Glen M. Williford

49 - HARBOR DEFENSES, KODIAK by D. Colt Denfield

53 - THE SOURCES OF MORTAR MANIA by Philip Sims

57 - 12-INCH BREECH LOADING MORTARS by Bolling W. Smith

59 - HISTORY OF BATTERY FOREST J. FRENCH by William H. Dorrance

61 - FORTS OF WHEREVER - #20 - COLUMBIA RIVER AND WESTERN WASHINGTON - by Robert D. Zink

65 - 31ST COAST ARTILLERY (HARBOR DEFENSE) REGIMENT by William Gaines


Volume 8, Issue 1, February 1994

1 - FEBRUARY 1994 BUSINESS NEWS

2 - Letters to the Editor and Questions & Answers Editor

3 - Projects and Preservation Committee

5 - The CDSG Fund

MEMBER NEWS & SHORT ITEMS

6 - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

8 - St Babs XIII (1995) Announcement - Puget Sound

10 - Miscellaneous Technical Topics

12 - Discussion: Thoughts on Mortar Mania

13 - Mystery Photo

14 - NEWS FROM THE FORTS COLUMN

15 - Book Review: Fort Kamehameha -

16 - Trip Report: Camp Hero, NY

17 - Trip Report: Mid-Atlantic Sites

ARTICLES

19 - THE COAST ARTILLERY AT PENSACOLA BAY 1898-1946 by William Gaines

34 - HOW BATTERY TOLLES "B" WAS EMPLACED by Charles D. Y. Ostrom, Jr.

37 - EVOLUTION OF THE INTERRUPTED-SCREW BREECH MECHANISM IN UNITED STATES ARMY HEAVY SEACOAST RIFLES by Nelson H. Lawry

43 - LOUISIANA & TEXAS PANAMA MOUNTS by Gary P. Paliwoda

47 - NATIONAL GUARD COAST ARTILLERY 1908-1925 by Merle T. Cole

51 - PUNCHBOWL MILITARY RESERVATION by William Gaines

56 - COAST ARTILLERY ORDNANCE IN 1922 by Philip Sims

59 - BATTERY BIENVENUE, LOUISIANA by Robert D. Zink

61 - THE UB-116 AT SCAPA FLOW by Philip Sims

63 - THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES [excerpted reprint]


CDSG Journal Volume 8, Issue 2, May 1994

1 - May 1994 Business News

3 - Coast Defense Study Group Fund - An Update

Member News

5 - Letters to the Editor

8 - Requests for Information; Questions and Answers

10 - 15 Pounder Guns Sought

11 - Photo Reveals a Second 1 0-Inch Seacoast Mortar & Carriage

13 - Book Review: Shoot. Shoot. Shoot

15 - Trip Report: Gulf Coast

19 - Trip Report: Terminal Island AMTB Battery

20 - Book Announcements

20 - News from the Forts

Articles

21 - THE SIX-INCH PART OF THE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM OF 1940 by Robert D. Zink (artwork by Gerald W. Butler)

39 - FIFTEENTH COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT 1924-1944 by William Gaines

39 - HISTORY OF FORT FRANK by William H. Dorrance

58 - WILIWILINUI RIDGE MILITARY RESERVATION by William Gaines


CDSG Journal Volume 8, Issue 3, August 1994

1 - August 1994 Business News

Member News

3 - Editor's Farewell Address

5 - Fatal Accident at Battery Chapin, Fort Foster

6 - Postcards and National Security - Fort Levett

7 - U. S. Coast Artillery Weapons in Chile

8 - Trip Report: Fort Rodd Hill

13 - Trip Report: New England Sites

14 - Book Review: Artillery at the Golden Gate

15 - Book Review: Confederate Mobile

16 - News From The Forts

17 - Letters and Questions & Answers (edited by Anne Zink)

21 - CDSG Visits to Forts Terry and Tyler, EELIS - Alex Holder

Articles

32 - AMERICA'S LAST SEACOAST DEFENSE: THE WORLD WAR II - ERA CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS by Mark Berhow

49 - SAND ISLAND MILITARY RESERVATION by William Gaines

54 - THE END OF MORTARS by Philip Sims

63 - REMINISCENCE OF CORPORAL PAUL L. AILLERY edited by Charles H. Bogart


CDSG Journal Volume 8, Issue 4, November 1994

1 - NOVEMBER 1994 BUSINESS NEWS

5 - Publication Policies

Member News

7 - The CDSG Database Project

9 - The Battery Humphreys Accident, Ft Rosecrans, 1 944

11 - Some Recollections: Camp Smith, NY

12 - National Archives Announcements

13 - Reminiscences of Nancy Evans (pre-WWII Philippines)

15 - Old Guns Never Die - They Are Just Used for Something Else

17 - BOOK/PERIODICAL REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

18 - News from the Fortress Study Group

19 - Second Chance for Existing Coast Artillery Materiel

20 - PSR - The Army Meaning

20 - CDSG Tours

Articles

21 - THE INSTALLATION OF SEACOAST ARTILLERY AT FORT CASEY IN THE 1960's by David M. Hansen

34 - UNITED STATES SEACOAST BATTERIES BUILT OR MODIFIED DURING THE YEARS 1935-1945 by Mark A. Berhow

39 - FORT WEAVER, OAHU, HAWAII by William Gaines

46 - FORT BARRETTE, OAHU, HAWAII by William Gaines

51 - BEACH DEFENSES OF HAWAII (1924-1942) by William H. Dorrance

59 - THE FORTS OF EVERYWHERE - NORTHERN FRONTIER (U.S.), SOUTHERN FRONTIER (CANADA) by Robert D. Zink

63 - 27th COAST ARTILLERY (HARBOR DEFENSE) BATTALION by William Gaines


The CDSG Journal was split into two publications with Volume 9: The CDSG Journal and the CDSG Newsletter. The Journal contents are noted here.


CDSG Journal Volume 9, Issue 1, February 1995

Articles

A Coast Artillerymans Experience at Fort Mills (Part 1) - 4

by Herbert F. Markland with Shawn A. Welch

Coast Artillery Projectiles, 1892-1915 - 16

by Bolling W. Smith

The Oahu Howitzers - 25

by William C. Gaines

Forts of Wherever, No. 21, The Straits of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound - 29

by Robert D. Zink

M8 Series Gun Data Computer - 36

by F.M. Baldwin

Too Hot: The Reduction of Muzzle Velocities in the U.S. Models 1900-1905 Seacoast Ordnance - 53

by Nelson H. Lawry and Donald J. Loughlin

Coast Artillery Inspections - 58

by F.M. Baldwin

A Brief History of the Bolsa Chica Military Reservation 1941-1948 - 60

by Mark A. Berhow

Notes

Additional Information on the U.S. 10-inch Mortar and Carriage - 63 by Nelson H. Lawry

1st Lt. William G. Sylvester - 64 by William H. Dorrance

Report of a Visit to Battery 520 - 66 by Elliot Deutsch

Ye Ballade of Ye Anciente Cosmoline - 68 by Anonymous

A Rare Discovery at Fort Morgan - 71 by Elliot Deutsch

Reviews

Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction by Eben Eveleth Winslow - 72

The Concrete Battleship: Fort Drum, El Fraile Island, Manila Bay by Francis J. Allen -- 73

Directory of U.S. Army Forts, Camps & Airfields (1789 to 1945) by Tom Kneitel - 74

Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon by Victor Applegate - 75


CDSG Journal Volume 9, Issue 2, May 1995

Articles

A Coast Artillerymans Experience on Fort Mills Part Two: The 59th Regiments Trial by Fire - 4

by Herbert F. Markland with Shawn A. Welch

Forts of the Canadian West Coast-Victoria/Esquimalt Defenses - 16

by David Morgan

Seacoast Artillery Gun Sights, 1892-1945 - 25

by Bolling W. Smith

The Temporary Harbor Defenses of Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1942-1944 - 50

by William C. Gaines

The Rock - 59

by Frederick M. Baldwin

The Forty-First Coast Artillery 1918-1944; An Organizational History - 61

by William C. Gaines

Notes

The First Coast Artillery Enlisted Men Killed in World War II - 71

by William H. Dorrance

Addendum to The Six-inch Part of the Modernization Program of 1940 - 73

by Robert D. Zink

10-inch Mortar (?), Continued - 75

by Robert D. Zink

Reviews

The Fortifications of Alderney - 76

Bunker Archeology - 78

We Stood and Waited: Sydney's Anti-Ship Defences 1939-1945 - 79

The Last Word in Airfields-A Special History Study of Crissy Field, Presidio of San Francisco, California - 80

Errata - 82


CDSG Journal Volume 9, Issue 3, August 1995

Articles

Fortress Without Guns (Fort Ward, Wash.) - 4

by David M. Hansen

The Board of Ordnance and Fortifications and the Airplane - 17

by Willam H. Dorrance

What Happened to the Mortars of Corregidor? - 21

by Gregory J. Hagge

The 14th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment, an Organizational History - 28

by William C. Gaines

Turn of the Century Coast Defenses of Hilton Head Island - 45

by Glen M. Williford

Some Recollections - 47

by F. M. Baldwin

Night Drill - 49

by F. M. Baldwin

Notes

Corrections - 51

Reviews

We Stood and Waited: Sydney's Anti-Ship Defences 1939-1945 by R. K. Fullard - 52

The Maunsell Forts by F. R. Turner - 52


CDSG Journal Volume 9, Issue 4, November 1995

Articles

The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950, Chapter I - 4

by William Gaines

The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950, Chapter II - 21

by William Gaines

Controlled Submarine Mining in the United States - 42

by Robert D. Zink

The 4-inch Navy Guns That Protected Hawaii - 55

by William H. Dorrance

Firing Tables and Gunnery for Seacoast Artillery - 60

by F.M. Baldwin

Reviews

European Publications on the Atlantic Wall and French Fortifications - 66

The Guns and Gunners of Hong Kong by Denis Rollo - 69

New Orleans: America's Most Fortified City by Codman Parkerson - 70


CDSG Journal Volume 10, Issue 1, February 1996

Articles

A Coast Artillerymans Experience on Fort Mills: Part Three - 4

by Herbert F. Markland with Shawn A. Welch

A Coast Artillerymans Experience: Postwar - 27

by Herbert F. Markland with Shawn A. Welch

The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950, Part II-Chapters III-V - 35

by William C. Gaines

Reviews

Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945 by Dorothy Cave - 70

USS Massachusetts (BB-2): One Hundred Years, Four Careers by James C. Coleman - 71

Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar by Quentin Hughes and Athanassios Migos -71

German Defensive Batteries and Gun emplacements on the Normandy Beaches. Invasion: D-Day June 6, 1944 by Karl-Heinz Schmeelke and Michael Schmeelke - 72


CDSG Journal Volume 10, Issue 2, May 1996

Articles

Another Five Degrees: WWI Alterations to the Disappearing Carriage - 4

by Nelson H. Lawry

The Coastal and Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, Part III Chapters VI to X - 11

by William C. Gaines

Some Subcaliber Thoughts - 73

by Fredrick W. Baldwin

WW II Time Interval Systems - 76

by Bolling W. Smith

The Rise and Fall of Fort Pulaski - 80

by Warren Laing

Flags for the Coast Artillery - 85

by Bolling W. Smith

Reviews - 92

Fortress Europe: The Atlantic Wall Guns by Karl-Heinz Schmeelke and Michael Schmeelke

Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Colonel Paul D. Bunker Edited by Keith Barlow

Seacoast Artillery Weapons (War Department Technical Manual TM 4-210, October, 1944)


CDSG Journal Volume 10, Issue 3, August 1996

Articles

The Maritime Defenses Of The Delaware, 1771-1950: Part IV - 4

Chapters XI - XIII

by William Gaines

Coastal Defense of Tampa Bay - 52

by Bruce E. McCall

The Mk I Mod 0 Mine System - 87

by Charles H. Bogart

Esquimalt Fortifications from 1890 to 1905; Fact, Fiction, and U.S. Military Intelligence - 93

by David Morgan

Notes

Some Gulf Coast Temporary Harbor Defense Activities, 1943-44 - 97

by Robert D. Zink

Note on the Changes in the Elevation of the Disappearing Carriage - 101

by Nelson H. Lawry

Reviews

Seacoast Cannon: Coloring Book by Brian Chin - 103

Fortress of Louisbourg CD-ROM disk - 103


CDSG Journal Volume 10, Issue 4, November 1996

Articles:

The Gun-Lift Battery in the Defenses of the United States - 4

by David M. Hansen

Battery Potter - As I Remember It - 17

by Fredrick Baldwin

The Handwriting on the Wall: The Brief Career of the Telautograph - 19

by Bolling W. Smith

Fixed in Concrete: Sewell Construction Tactical Buildings 1906-1917 - 30

by Nelson H. Lawry

Fort Drum, the Concrete Battleship - 38

by Terrance McGovern, Jr.

History of Fort Slocum (Davids Island Military Reservation) - 49

by William H. Dorrance

Fort Schuyler and the Defenses of the Eastern Approaches to New York Harbor:

a Historic Resource Study - 56

by William C. Gaines

Reminiscences of Lt. Colonel Aaron A. Abston and Mrs. Kay Abston - 92

as told to Charles H. Bogart

Recollections of the 245th Coast Artillery New York National Guard - 96

by Fredrick M. Baldwin

Notes:

The 245th Coast Artillery Regiment, N.Y.N.G.-A Brief History - 108

by Bolling W. Smith

More on Six-pounder Photograph - 110

by Nelson H. Lawry and Joel W. Eastman

Installation Confirmed of the Second 75 mm Gun at Prince Rupert - 111

by Nelson H. Lawry and Jack A. Drysdale

Errata - 111

A Small Brass Puzzle - 112

by Elliot Deutsch


CDSG Journal Volume 11, Issue 1, February 1997

Articles

Zalinski's Dynamite Gun - 4

by David M. Hansen

Meteorological and Tide Stations, 1890-1917 - 23

by Bolling W. Smith

U.S. Marine Defense Battalions - 37

by William Dorrance

Fort Totten and the Coastal Defenses of Eastern New York - 41

by William C. Gaines

Reviews

Fort McHenry by Scott Sheads - 99

The Military Annals of Nahant by Gerald Butler -100

From Monitor to Missile Boat by George Palocxi-Hovarth - 102

No Sailor but a Fool, coast defense war game by Terry Sofian - 103

At the Water's Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault by Theodore L. Gatchel - 104


CDSG Journal Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1997

Articles

Coast Artillery in the Trinidad Base Command and Sector 1941-1946 - 4

by William P. Gaines

The United States Coast Artillery Command on Aruba and Curacao in WW II - 20

by William P. Gaines

Radio and Coast Defense in the Endicott-Taft Era, 1899-1916 - 31

by Bolling W. Smith

The December 1914 Statement of American Coast Defense Policies - 39

by David P. Kirchner

A National Guard Officer in Federal Service, 1940-1945 - 43

by Fredrick M. Baldwin

Notes

Harbor Charts - 53

by Fredrick M. Baldwin

Mystery Object in the Surf at Fort Miles Identified - 55

by Robert D. Zink

German Use of French 155 mm GPF Guns - 60

by Robert J. Macdonald

Reviews

Ships Versus Shore: Civil War Engagements along Southern Shores and Rivers - 61

Rings of Supersonic Steel - 61

Island No 10 - Struggle for the Mississippi - 62

12-inch American seacoast artillery mortar model kit - 64


CDSG Journal Volume 11, Issue 3, August 1997

Articles

Gun Houses in New England; Part of the Second System Seacoast Defenses in 1808 - 4

by Kenneth E. Thompson Jr.

Fort Armstrong - 9

by William C. Dorrance

Charcoal Powder Propellants for Coast Artillery - 20

by Bolling W. Smith

Fort Screven: the Modern System of Defense at Savannah 1886-1946 - 30

by William C. Gaines

Reviews

A History of Fort Screven, Georgia: Tybee Island's Military Heritage - 61

The Historic Defences of Plymouth - 61

Bermuda Forts: 1612-1957 - 62

The Service of Coast Artillery - 63

American Swords and Sword Makers - 64

Swords and Sword Makers of the War of 1812 - 64

The Maritime Defence of Canada - 65

Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare - 66


CDSG Journal Volume 11, Issue 4, November 1997

Articles

Early Fort Ruger: 1906-1915 - 4

by William H. Dorrance

Defending the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1803-1945 - 15

by William C. Gaines

U.S. Marine Defense Battalions: More of the Story - 72

by Gordon L. Rottmann

Some Thoughts on the GPF - 78

by David P. Kirchner

Notes

A Reflection upon Modern Gun Making, by Captain W.H. Jaques - 82

by Nelson H. Lawry

Reviews

Atlantik Wall: Le Murde LAtlantique en France 1940-1944 , by A. Chazette - 84

British Military Architecture in Malta, by S. C. Spiteri - 84

The Standard Guide to U.S. World War II Tanks and Artillery, by C. F. Schreier, Jr. - 85

The Lewis Gun, by J. D. Truby - 87

The Civil War CD ROM, from the Guild Press of Indiana - 87

Le Difese Castiere Italiane Nelle due Guerre Mondail, by C. A. Clerici - 88

Die Regelbauten Des Heeres Im Atlantik Wall, by H. Lippmann - 89

Deutsches Atlantik Wall Archiv (DAWA) Nachrichten periodical -89

Die Festung Sewastopol, edited by M. Egger -90

Reprinted Publications from the Fortress Study Group - 91

The Lion's Claws: The Amalfi Battery, and Venice's Coastal Fortifications During The Two World Wars, by Furio Lazzarini and Carlo Alfredo Clerici - 92


CDSG Journal Volume 12, Issue 1, February 1998

Articles

The World War II Defenses of Bermuda - 4

by Terrance McGovern

Fort De Russy - 16

by William H. Dorrance

Maryland National Guard Coast Artillery, 1908-1917 - 30

by Merle T. Cole

Joint Army and Navy Coast Defense Commands: 1927-1945 - 45

by William C. Gaines

Glossary of Terms Related to Coast Artillery Operations In World War II - 59

Compiled and edited by William C. Gaines

Primers and Firing Mechanisms - 67

by Bolling W. Smith

Guarding Osaka: the Yura Fortress - 89

by D. P. Kirchner

M1 Gun Data Computer - 102

by F.M. Baldwin

Book Reviews - 122

The Forgotten War: A Pictorial History of World War II in Alaska and Northwestern Canada

(Volumes One through Four) by Stan Cohen

The Maginot Line: None Shall Pass By J.E. Kaufmann and H.W. Kaufmann

Coast Artillery Marching Song - 124


CDSG Journal Volume 12, Issue 2, May 1998

Articles

The Harbor Defenses in the 1938 Protective Mobilization Plan - 4

by D. P. Kirchner

Meet Me in St. Louis: The Model 1900 6-inch Seacoast Gun Mounted on the Model 1903 Disappearing Carriage, LF - 42

by Nelson H. Lawry and Glen M. Williford

Smokeless Powder - 52

by Bolling W. Smith

A Brief History of Reports of Completed Batteries and Reports of Completed Works - 64

by Matthew L. Adams

Edgar Allan Poe, Coast Artilleryman - 69

by Gerald W. Butler, assisted by David W. Lynch

A Coast Artillery R.O.T.C. Camp Diary from 1927 - 73

Compiled by B.W. Smith

The Forts of Wherever, No. 22 - Alaska Defenses - 85

by Robert D. Zink

Antiaircraft Weapons of the Coast Artillery Corps - 93

by Bolling W. Smith

Notes

The Coast Artillery and the New Coats from Bolling W. Smith - 113

New York Harbor Channels from Philip Sims -115

Book Reviews

Der Osterreichisch-Ungarische Befestigungsbau 1820-1914 By Kurt M. de Paula - 117

Maginot Imitations: Major Fortifications of Germany and Neighboring Countries by J. E. Kaufmann & H. W. Kaufmann - 118

Military Fortification: A Selective Bibliography compiled by Dale E. Floyd - 119

Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America by John Keegan - 120

The World, Portsmouth & The 22nd Coast Artillery: The War Years 1938-1948 by Jack P. Wysong - 121


CDSG Journal Volume 12, Issue 3, August 1998

Articles

The Coast Artillery 14-inch Gun 1907-1918 - 4

Glen M. Williford and Nelson H. Lawry

Seacoast Artillery Fuzes - 32

Bolling W. Smith

A History of the Modern Coastal Defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, Part I 1894-1939 - 55

William C. Gaines

Guarding the Lower Gate: the Shimonoseki Fortress - 91

David P. Kirchner

Battleships as Coast Artillery Targets - 110

Bolling W. Smith

Notes

CA Quiz - Where Did This Happen? from David Kirchner - 118

Reviews

At the Water's Edge: World War II Beach and Underwater Obstacles - 118 edited by Gordon Rottman and Leroy Wilson

Der Atlantikwall: Die Bauten Der Deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945 - 119 by Rudi Rolf

A Harbor Worth Defending, a Military History of Point Loma - 120 by Barry Alan Joyce

The Gatling Gun: 19th Century Machine Gun to 21st Century Vulcan - 121 by Joseph Berk

Guardian of the Sound: A Pictorial History of Fort H. G. Wright, Fishers Island, N.Y- . 122 by Pierce Rafferty and John Wilton


CDSG Journal Volume 12, Issue 4, November 1998

Articles:

With Nearly Every Problem Solved, The Development of Mechanical Ammunition Hoists in America's Coastal Fortifications - 4

David M. Hansen

A History of the Modern Coastal Defenses of Charleston, South Carolina Part II: The Harbor Defenses of Charleston in World War II - 35

William Gaines

The Early-Modern Armament of Japanese Harbor Defenses - 60

David Kirchner

Seacoast Guns and Carriages - 73

Bolling W. Smith

Notes:

German Coast Artillery in Belgium in WWI - 119

Philip Sims

The Observation Telescope (Seacoast), Model of 1908 - 126

Bolling W. Smith

Some Information on Interior Ballistics - 127

Robert D. Zink

Reviews:

Communications Equipment of the German Army: 1933-1945 - 134 by Charles J. Barger

Dutch Island and Fort Greble - 134 by Walter K. Schroder

Erratia - 135


CDSG Journal Volume 13, Issue 1, February 1999

Articles:

Difficulties Encountered with the Early, Rapid-fire Seacoast Ordnance - 4

by Nelson W. Lawry

Guns on the Japan Inland Sea: the Hiroshima and Ehime Fortresses 1897 - 1926 - 14

by David P. Kirchner

British Naval Heritage in Micronesia -The Coastal Defense Guns of the Marshalls,

Pohnpei and Chuuk - 37

by Dirk H.R. Spennemann

Big Gun Fire Control on Oahu 1920-1945 - 61

by William H. Dorrance

Notes:

The Report of the Secretary of War/War Department 1872-1920 - 71

by Bolling W. Smith

The 1929 Harbor Defense Staff Study: Mobile Armament for Minor Harbor Defenses - 77

by Matthew Adams

Some Notes on Key Coast Defense Policy Documents and Where to Find Them - 79

by Matthew Adams and Mark Berhow

Additional Notes on the German Defense of the Belgian Coast During World War I - 82

by Charles H. Bogart

Some Thoughts on the Curious Career of the Stone Mortar - 86

by Bolling W. Smith

Photo Captions: Additions to the November 1998 Cover Captions - 89

by Bolling W. Smith & Richard Whistler

Addendum and Corrections to Seacoast Guns and Carriages - 90

by Bolling W. Smith

Reviews:

Fortifications and Sea-Coast Defenses, Permanent Fortifications and Sea-Coast Defense: Report of the Committee on Military Affairs -91

Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II by Jerry E. Strahan - 92

Portland Head Light & Fort Williams: An Illustrated History With a Walking Guide Map by Kenneth E. Thompson Jr- . 93

Coastal Castles of Florida: Old Sea Forts of Florida & Coastal Castles of Louisiana and Mississippi: Old Sea Forts of Louisiana and Mississippi by Dale Manuel - 94

Redlegs: The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War by John P. Langellier - 95

American Swords & Sword Makers, Volume II by Richard H. Bezdek - 96


CDSG Journal Volume 13, Issue 2, May 1999

Articles:

Seacoast Weapons of the Rodman Period, 1866-1898 -4

Bolling W. Smith

Defending Baltimore During the Splendid Little War -39

Merle T. Cole

155 mm Gun Employment and Emplacements on Oahu, T.H., 1921-1945 - 58

William C. Gaines

Notes:

1899 Panama Mounts & the Fate of the M1898 3-inch Guns -89

D. P. Kirchner

Spanish Heavy Coast Artillery In The Modern Era - 92

CDR Charles B. Robbins, USN (Ret.)

Reviews:

German Heavy 24 cm Cannon: Development and Operations, 1916-1945 by Wolfgang Fleischer -98

Back to Corregidor: America Retakes the Rock by Gerard M. Devlin - 98

Fort Macon: A History by Paul Branch - 99


CDSG Journal Volume 13, Issue 3, August 1999

Articles:

Vertical and Horizontal-Base Position Finding Systems - 4

Bolling W. Smith

Once More unto the Breech: the Replacement of the Faulty Breech Mechanisms in

the Models 1900 6- and 5-inch RF Seacoast Guns - 24

Nelson H. Lawry

Existing Guns for the Front - 43

Philip Sims

The Early-Modern Armament of Tsushima - 50

David P. Kirchner

Portugal's Coast Artillery in the Modern Era - 74

CDR Charles B. Robbins, USN (Ret.)

Notes:

Gas! - 80

Bolling W. Smith

Seacoast Defense, 1954 - 83

Bolling W. Smith

Reviews:

American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide, edited by Mark A. Berhow - 85

War Trains, Video - 86

The Flak Towers in Berlin, Hamburg & Vienna: 1940-1950, by Michael Foedrowitz - 87


CDSG Journal Volume 13, Issue 4, November 1999

Articles:

Heavy Artillery at Waikiki -4

William H. Dorrance

Installations and Accessories for Gun Carriages-23

Greg Hagge

Booms, Nets, and Obstructions -36

Charles H. Bogart

The Sixteenth Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment -45

William C. Gaines

Notes:

An Interesting Piece of British Ordnance -60

Bolling Smith

British High-Angle Rifled Muzzleloading Guns -64

Bolling Smith

Reviews:

Towers of Strength: the Story of the Martello Towers -68 by William H. Clements

Atlantic Wall Typology -69 by Rudi Rolf

Bunkers Bunkers Everywhere -70 by Paul Ozorak

The Submarine Mine Battery Video -71 Traditions Military Videos

World War I on the Virginia Peninsula -72 by John V. Quarstein

Fortress Europe: European Fortifications of World War II -73 By J.E. Kaufmann and R.M. Jurga


CDSG Journal Volume 14, Issue 1, February 2000

Articles:

Battery Cavallo, Fort Baker: Survivor of the Plan of 1870 -4

by John Martini

Antiaircraft Defenses in the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays 1921-1942 -21

By William C. Gaines

British Disappearing Gun Carriages: An Introduction -44

By Bolling W. Smith

Notes:

The Fourth Naval District and the Defense of Delaware Bay 1940 to 1945 -63

by Charles H. Bogart

Nets And Booms in Puget Sound During WWII -68

By Greg Hagge

An 1886 British Perspective on Muzzleloading and Breechloading Artillery -71

By Bolling Smith

Reviews:

Guns and Carriages, by Austin C. Carpenter 73

Panic at Fort Stevens, by Bert Webber 74

Jerseys German Bunkers, by Michael Ginns 75


CDSG Journal Volume 14, Issue 2, May 2000

Articles

The Establishment of the Coastal Defenses of Puget Sound -4

Marc K. Blackburn

Prince Rupert Defenses, 1938-1945 -15

David Morgan

Modern Coastal Defenses of the Spainish Naval Base of Ferrol -29

Juan Vázquez García

Eight-inch Coastal Defense Guns in Micronesia -40

Dirk H.R. Spennemann

Camp Pendleton, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the Provisional Coast Artillery Brigade, 1940-1945 ..65

William Gaines

Notes

An Interesting Pitcher -78

Greg Hagge

Reviews

Artillerie Côtière: Atlantikwall et Südwall en France, by Alain Chazette -80

Les Pièces de 10,5 cm S.K. C/32 et S.K. C/33 de la Kriegsmarine, by Patrick Toussaint & Alain Chazette -80

Hochseefestung Helgoland, Teil 1- 1891-22, Teil 2- 1934-47, by Claude Fröhle & Hans-Jürgen Kühn . ..81

Old Sea Forts of Louisiana and Mississippi, Old Sea Forts of Florida, Sentinels of Savannah , The Defenses of the Lower Mobile Bay , by Dale Manuel -82

Eisenbahn-Geschütze der Welt , by Franz Kosar -83

Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891 , by Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani -83

Russian Shadows on the British Northwest Coast of North America, 1810-1890: A Study of Rejection of Defence Responsibilities , by Glynn Barratt -84

Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War by Dale Fetzer and Bruce Mowday -85

North Head: The Development of a Fort , by David Veart

North Head Investigation, 1992: Interim Research Report , by J.L. Treadwell

World War II Defences at Stony Battery (Waiheke Island) and Whangaparaoa , by Peter D. Corbett . ..86

Stronghold Britain: Four Thousand Years of British Fortifications , by Geoffrey Williams -88

Fort Anderson: Battle for Wilmington , by Charles E. Fonvielle, Jr- .89

Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars , by Brian Tennyson and Roger Sarty -90

Guardians of the Empire, by Brian McAllister Linn -91

Erratum -93


CDSG Journal Volume 14, Issue 3, August 2000

Articles

The Defenses of the British West Indies: The Last Three Score Years and Ten -4

Ian Stevenson

Soviet Heat-Detecting Devices for Coast Defense 1934 -1945 -20

Vladimir Kalinin and Stanislaw Worobiev

Solitary Precedent: The Model 1897 6-inch RF Seacoast Gun -31

Nelson H. Lawry

Characteristics of the Third System of American Seacoast Defenses -46

Dale A. Manuel

My Coast Artillery Experience: What is in the Training Manuals & What is Not -59

Jack Turnbull

The Evolution of U.S. Coastal Fortifications and their Impact on the Landscape, 1794-1950 -75

Dale E. Floyd

The Cape Hatteras Minefield -80

Charles H. Bogart

Notes

At the Southern Extreme: Fire Control Stations on Limbones Island in Manila Bay -85

Glen M. Williford

Buried Mistakes -90

Bolling Smith

Where are the Reports of Completed Batteries from 1910 to 1919? -93

Matthew L. Adams and Glen M. Williford

Addendum to Prince Rupert Defenses, 1939-1945 -94

David Morgan

Reviews

Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 by Stephen R. Wise -95

Moore's Historical Guide to the Wilmington Campaign and the Battles for Fort Fisher by Mark A. Moore -96

Survey of Japanese Seacoast Artillery, 1946 by GHQ USAFPAC, Seacoast Artillery Board -96


CDSG Journal Volume 14, Issue 4, November 2000

Articles:

A Brief History of Canadian Coast Artillery Units 1871-1959 - 4

David Morgan

Fort Powell, Forgotten Guardian of Mobile Bay - 14

Bolling Smith

Grid Coordinates - 28

Ed Robinson

Middle Ground of the Chesapeake Bay-An Almost Fortress - 39

Glen Williford

Caretaker Status in the Coast Artillery, 1912-1948 - 48

Mark A. Berhow

Fort Livingston: The Lonely Sentinel of Barataria - 58

Dale A. Manuel

Hole in the Wall: The Muzzle Pockets in Pit B, Battery Ruggles - 63

Nelson H. Lawry

Recollections of Virginia Beach and Fort Story before WWII - 70

Holcombe H. Hurt, Jr.

825th Coast Artillery Battery (Separate), 1942-1943 - 73

William C. Gaines

Standard Nomenclature List E-1, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, April 13, 1936 - 75

D. P. Kirchner

Notes:

Research Notes: 1945 American Report on German Seacoast Defenses & the Report of

the War Department Seacoast Defense Armament Board (The Tilton Board Report) 1946 - 81

Bolling Smith

Reviews:

Seacoast Fortifications Preservation Manual - 84 By Joe C. Freeman, Stephan A. Haller, David M. Hansen, John A. Martini, and Karen J. Weitze

Chilean-American 12-inch Guns, in Warship International - 85 By Charles B. Robbins and E.R. Lewis

The American Defenses of the Panama Canal - 86 By Terrance McGovern

The Military History of Boston's Harbor Islands - 87 By Gerald Butler

Images of America: Sandy Hook - 88 By Randall Gabrielan


In 2001 the CDSG Journal was renamed the Coast Defense Journal.


CD Journal Volume 15, Issue 1, February 2001

Articles

The Harbor Defenses of Singapore: Facing the Wrong Way? - 4

Philip Sims

S.M.S. Moltke Visits America: International Tensions

and the German Threat to the Western Hemisphere before 1914 - 9

Merle T. Cole

The 16-inch Batteries at San Francisco and the Evolution of the Casemated 16-inch Battery - 16

Bolling Smith

Characteristics of the Second System - 84

Dale A. Manuel

Notes

Regarding the Shimonoseki Tunnel - 100

D.P. Kirchner

Reviews

Defending New Zealand: Ramparts on the South Sea 1840-1950s By Peter Cooke - 105

Coast Artillery, Antiaircraft Artillery, Air Defense Artillery: Distinctive InsigniaCompiled by American Society of Military Insignia Collectors - 106


CD Journal Volume 15, Issue 2, May 2001

ARTICLES

The Galveston Forts and the Storm of the Century - 4

Dale A. Manuel

Maryland's Naval Militia in the War With Spain -16

Merle T. Cole

Antiaircraft Defense of Oahu 1916-1945 - 22

William Gaines

The Fort Washington Experimental Parapet Test - 68

Bolling W. Smith

Coast Artillery Projectiles for Armor-Piercing Bombs - 73

Bolling W. Smith

The End of Seacoast Artillery: Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum of Policy No. 15 - 76

Matthew Adams

Proposals for Seacoast Defenses in the Post-War Army - 80

Bolling W. Smith

NOTES

Warships as Coastal Fortifications - 86

Bolling W. Smith

Ordnance R & D Historical Manuscripts, 1940-1947: Naval Harbor Defense Manual, 1946 - 88

Bolling Smith

Addendum to At the Southern Extreme, Fire Control on Limbones Island - 91

Glen M. Williford

REVIEWS

Major and Mrs. Bolt Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli - 93

Ordnance Memorandum No. 21: Ammunition, Fuses, Primers, Military Pyrotechny, etc. - 94

Erratum - 95


CD Journal Volume 15, Issue 3, August 2001

ARTICLES

Coast Defenses of New Zealand: 1876-1960 - 4

Peter Corbett & John Mitchell, Ph. D.

Waiting for the Enemy:

Memoirs of a World War II Soldier in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 60

Norman E. Hope

Carnot's Wall, or the Detached Scarp in America - 76

Dale A. Manuel

The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Coast Defense - 85

Philip Sims

The Conversion of the Hog Island Battery from 12-inch to 16-inch - 91

Glen M. Williford

NOTES

Were M1898 15-Pounder Seacoast Guns Really Converted into M1918 3-inch Antiaircraft Guns? - 99

Bolling Smith

REVIEWS

The Cocos Island Mutiny, by Noel Crusz - 102

The Military History of New Bedford, by Christopher McDonald - 103

Italian Artillery in the Great War, by Andrea Curami and Alessandro Massignani - 104

The Artillery of the Royal Army in the Second World War, by Filippo Cappellano - 105

Erratta - 3 & 105


CD Journal Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2001

ARTICLES

180 mm Coast Artillery Batteries Guarding Vladivostok, Russia, 1932-1945: Part 1. The Open Batteries - 4

V.I. Kalinin, S.A. Vorobiev, Yu. V. Ivanov, A.V. Stekhov, and N.V. Gavrilkin

Citadels of the Third System of American Seacoast Defense - 57

Dale A. Manuel

Architecture of the American Third System of Seacoast Defense: Part One-The Fort - 74

John R. Weaver II

The 54th Coast Artillery Regiment (155 mm Gun) 1917-1944 - 83

William C. Gaines

A Physician with the Coast Artillery Corps: The Military Career of Dr. Howard Andrew Knox, Pioneer of Psychological Testing - 88

John T.E. Richardson

Reminiscences of Col. James H. Jensen, CAC - 94

Recorded by Charles H. Bogart

REVIEWS

Family Letters of General Henry Larcom Abbot, 1831-1927 by Catherine C. Abbot - 98

Fort McHenry and Baltimore's Harbor Defenses by Merle T. Cole and Scott S. Sheads - 98

The Guns of Boston Harbor by Gerald W. Butler - 99

A Legacy in Brick and Stone American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816 - 1867 by John R. Weaver II - 100

CDs of Photos from the HD of Manila and Subic Bays compiled by Roger Davis -m101

Le Cap Aux 340 by Jean-Francois Roudier - 102

German Artillery of World War One by Herbert Jäger - 103

Encyclopedia of Russian Artillery by A.B. Shirokorad - 103

Histoire De LArtillerie Lourde Sur Voie Ferree Francaise by Colonel Guy François - 104


CD Journal Volume 16, Issue 1, February 2002

Articles:

Temporary Harbor Defenses in the Southern Defense Command: 1942-1944 - 4

William C. Gaines

180 mm Coast Artillery Batteries Guarding Vladivostok,1932-1945 Part 2: Turret Batteries - 39

V.I. Kalinin, S.A. Vorobiev, Yu. V. Ivanov, and A.V. Stekhov and N.V. Gavrilkin

Architecture of the American Third System of Seacoast Defense, Part II: The Outworks - 64

John R. Weaver

The Defense of Tarakan Island, Netherlands East Indies, January 1942 - 74

Charles H. Bogart

Notes:

Buried Treasure at Fort Hancock? - 78

Bolling Smith

U.S. Navy Harbor Defense Atlas - 80

Charles H. Bogart

The Drawings of Guillaume Tell Poussin - 82

Dale A. Manuel

Coast Defense in the Journal of the Military Service Institution, 1879-1892 - 87

Bolling Smith

November 2001 Cover Picture - 92

Reviews:

Artillery, Missiles & Military Transport of the 20th Century by Christopher Chant - 93

Conflict Across the Strait: A Battery Commander's Story of Kent's Defenses 1939-45 by Colonel B.E. Arnold - 95

Fortresses of the Knights by Stephen C. Spiteri - 96

American Coast Artillery Matériel - 97

Schiffs-und Küstenartillerie: Marinegeschütze aus 500 Jahren by Hans Mehl - 99


CD Journal Volume 16, Issue 2, May 2002

ARTICLES

Land Defense for the Coast Defenses of Manila Bay - 4

Glen Williford

Quartermaster Buildings: Records and Plans - 29

Bolling Smith

Fort St. John, Louisiana - 43

Dale A. Manuel

Dr. James Henry McLean, Peacemaker - 54

Bolling Smith

The Fall of the German Fortress of Tsingtao - 61

Philip Sims

The Elements Of Fortification : The First Military Engineering Text Published for the United States Government - 68

Kenneth E. Thompson Jr.

NOTES

German Warship Cards, Coast Artillery School, 1917 - 74

Bolling Smith

The Song of the 100th Coast Artillery Regiment - 78

Charles H. Bogart

Coast Defenses of Peru and Chile between the World Wars - 81

Charles H. Bogart

REVIEWS

Smashing the Atlantic Wall: The Destruction of Hitler's Coastal Fortresses - 83 by Patrick Delaforce

Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges from Ancient Times to the Present - 84 by Paul K. Davis


CD Journal Volume 16, Issue 3, August 2002

ARTICLES

Time Capsule Battery: The Problems at Battery Farnsworth - 4

Glen M. Williford

Railway Artillery on Oahu, 1922-1944 - 22

William C. Gaines

Spanish-American War Batteries at Sabine Pass - 59

Dale A. Manuel

Sand Island's Military Past, 1916-1945 - 66

John D. Bennett

Coastal Defense in Florida During the Mexican War - 83

Russell D. James, M.A.

Major William Massello, Jr., 60th Coast Artillery - 88

Thomas N. Murphy

NOTES

Two Letters from Fort Knox, Maine - 91

Bolling Smith

German Coast Artillery at Tsingtao, China, 1914 - 95

CDR Charles B. Robbins, USN (Ret.)

REVIEWS

The Guardian At The Gates: Fort MacArthur, Defender of Los Angeles - 96 By Mark A. Berhow and David Gustafson

Les Défenses de Bizerte: 1881-1963 - 96 By Jean-Jacques Moulins

Cottonclads! The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast - 97 By Donald S. Frazier

Flak - German Anti-Aircraft Defense: 1914 To 1945 - 98 By Edward B. Westerman


CD Journal Volume 16, Issue 4, November 2002

ARTICLES

240 mm Howitzers on Oahu 1922-1944 - 4

William C. Gaines

Fort Fremont and the Defenses of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina - 29

Dale A. Manuel

Oahu's Command and Fire Control Cable System - 43

John D. Bennett

Japan Between the Wars: An Analysis of Japanese Seacoast Armament Installed between 1914 and 1937 - 56

D.P. Kirchner

In Harm's Way: Two YMS Minesweepers and Japanese Artillery - 61

Charles H. Bogart

World War II Memories of the Coast Artillery on Oahu - 69

John H. Varney, as told to John D. Bennett

NOTES

Inspection Reports for Coast Artillery Posts - 85

Bolling W. Smith


CD Journal Volume 17, Issue 1, February 2003

ARTICLES

C3I and the Antiaircraft Defense of Manila Bay - 4

Charles H. Bogart

In Time of Peace, Prepare for War: The Peacetime Strength and Distribution of the U.S. Coast Artillery 1901-1937 - 15

Bolling Smith

Fort Michie Beyond the Batteries: The Non-Tactical Structures - 26

Jonathan Prostak

Battery Construction Number 302: The Sentinel of Kaneohe Bay - 49

John D. Bennett

The Sham Battle for Newport - 64

Karl Fritz

The World War II Temporary Harbor Defenses of Tampa 1942-1944 - 74

William C. Gaines

The 5-Inch Emergency Naval-Gun Batteries on Oahu, T.H. 1942-1943 - 88

John D. Bennett

NOTE

Addendum to In Harm's Way: Two YMS Minesweepers and Japanese Artillery - 100

Philip Sims

REVIEWS

Distant Thunder, by Alejandro M. de Quesada, - 100

Hitler's Atlantic Wall, by Anthony Saunders - 102

Notes on Sea-Coast Defence: Consisting of Sea-Coast

Fortification, the Fifteen-Inch Gun, and Casemate Embrasures, by J.G. Barnard - 103

Austro-Hungarian Artillery in the Great War, by Filippo Cappellano - 104

Guns Across the Severn: The Victorian Fortifications Of Glamorgan,by A. Saunders, C.J. Spurgeon, J.J. Thomas, and D.J. Roberts - 105


CD Journal Volume 17, Issue 2, May 2003

ARTICLES

305 mm Coast Artillery Turret Battery No. 981, Vladivostok, Russia, 1932-97, Part I - 4

V.I. Kalinin, Yu.V. Ivanov, S.A Vorobiev, A.V. Stekhov, and N.V. Gavrilkin

Gypsy Artillery: The 69th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment - 49

William C. Gaines

Counting Japanese Seacoast Howitzers - 60

D.P. Kirchner

The Coastal Defenses of Kauai, T.H., 1942-1944 - 66

John D. Bennett

Italian Boat Raid on Malta, 1942 - 78

Philip Sims

Fort Petite Coquilles, Louisiana - 85

Dale A. Manuel

NOTE

Addendum to What Happened to the Mortars of Corregidor? - 93

Greg Hagge

REVIEWS

Naval Weapons Of World War II, by John Campbell - 95

American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay, 1898-1945, -  96 by Terrence C. McGovern and Mark A. Berhow

Japanese Pacific Island Defenses, 1941-45 , by Gordon L. Rottman - 96

U-Boat Bases and Bunkers, 1941-45, by Gordon Williamson - 97

Hadrian's Wall, AD 122-410, by Nic Fields - 98

Defending America's Shores: A Historical Analysis of the

Development of the U.S. Army's Fortifications System, 1812 - 1950 , - 99 by Timothy J. Charlesworth, LCDR, USN

Alcatraz at War, by John A. Martini - 100


CD Journal Volume 17, Issue 3, August 2003

ARTICLES

305 mm Coast Artillery Turret Battery No. 981: Part II - 4

V.I. Kalinin, Yu.V. Ivanov, S.A Vorobiev, A.V. Stekhov, and N.V. Gavrilkin

Camp Malakole, Oahu, T.H. - 49

John D. Bennett

Fort St. Leon and the Fortifications at English Turn, Louisiana - 62

Dale A. Manuel

The Fortifications At Balize, Louisiana - 72

Dale A. Manuel

Fort Darrell (Mechanic) and the Defenses of Charleston - 79

William C. Gaines

Castle Pinckney and the Fortifications of Shute's Folly Island, Charleston Harbor - 84

William C. Gaines

REVIEWS

Building 25, Enlisted Men's Barracks, Fort Hancock: Historic Structure Report - 98 By Naomi D. Kroll and Sharon K. Ofenstein

Fortress Construction on the North Sea and Baltic Sea: The History of German Coastal Fortifications until 1918 - 99 By Frank Gosch

Fortress Third Reich - 99 By J.E. Kaufmann

Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery - 100 By Hans Mehl

Historic Fortification Preservation Handbook - 101 By Pacific Northwest Preservation Workshop

Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu: 1907-50 (Fortress No. 8) - 103 By Glen Williford and Terry McGovern


CD Journal Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2003

ARTICLES

Second-System Fortifications at Savannah, Georgia: 1807-1825 - 4

William C. Gaines

Naval Air Station Palmyra (Island) and Its World War Two Defenses - 24

John D. Bennett and CDR Alvin H. Grobmeier, USN (Ret.)

Forts Hampton, Winyaw, & Marion 2nd-System Forts of the Carolinas - 43

Dale A. Manuel

The Defenses of Cumberland Sound, 1738-1900 - 51

William C. Gaines

Fort Johnson at Windmill Point, James Island, Charleston Harbor - 77

William C. Gaines

REVIEWS

Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery By Hans Mehl - 96

Kystartilleri I Danmark 1940-45 (Coast Artillery in Denmark 1940-45) By Svend E. Albrethsen, Jens Andersen, & Ole L. Frantzen - 97

Fortress Pola-The Defenses of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navys Main War Harbor By Erwin Anton Grestenberger - 97

A First Class Defended Port:The History of the Coast Defences of Auckland, its Harbour and Approaches, By Peter D. Corbett - 98

December 8, 1941: MacArthurs Pearl Harbor By William H. Bartsch - 99

Annihilating Time and Space: The Electrification of the United States Army, 1875-1920 (dissertation) By Shannon Allen Brown - 100

American Civil War Fortifications (1): Coastal Brick and Stone Forts By A. Konstam - 102

The Maginot Line: 1928-45 By William Allcorn - 103

English Civil War Fortifications: 1642 - 51 By Peter Harrington - 104

The Lines of the Torres Vedras: 1809 -11 By Ian Fletcher - 104


CD Journal Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2004

ARTICLES

Confederate Defenses of Savannah 1861-1865 - 4

William C. Gaines

Spanish Coastal Defenses of the Rias Baixas - 42

Juan Vázquez García

Some Memories of the Coast Artillery Corps Citizens' Military Training Camps - 55

Dale A. Manuel

Iron against Brick The Union Naval Attack on Charleston, S.C., April 7, 1863 - 63

Bolling W. Smith

Defenses of Florida's St. Johns River, 1898-1944 - 78

William C. Gaines

Fort Wint Survivors - Battery C, 91st CA (PS) - 99

Charles H. Bogart

NOTES

Buell Collection, Corps of Engineers - 102

Bolling W. Smith

REVIEWS

New York City's Harbor Defenses By Leo Polaski and Glen Williford - 103

Did Singapore Have To Fall? Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress - 104 By Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn

Defending the North: The Fortifications of Ulster 1796-1956 By Bill Clements - 105

American Coastal Defense: The Third System of Fortification, 1816-1864 - 106 (Dissertation) By Russell Reed Price

Pensacola Bay: A Military History By Dale Manuel - 107

Fortresses of Savannah, Georgia By John Walker Guss - 108


CD Journal Volume 18, Issue 2, May 2004

ARTICLES

Taylor-Raymond Projectile Hoists - 4

Gregory Hagge and Steven Kobylk

Operation Bobcat: the U.S. Garrison of Bora Bora in World War Two - 44

John D. Bennett

The Defense of the Dardanelles in WWI - 59

Philip Sims

Japanese Early-Modern Coastal Defenses: Hakodate and Maizuru - 72

D.P. Kirchner

Antiaircraft Gunner at Fort Barrette - 101

Staff Sergeant Herman Horn, 97th CA (AA) as told to Charles H. Bogart

REVIEWS

Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, by Gregory J.W. Urwin - 105

A Dictionary on Modern Fortification: An Illustrated Lexicon on European Fortifications in the Period 1800-1945, by Rudi Rolf - 106


CD Journal Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2004

ARTICLES

Fort Johnston, North Carolina, 1745-1865 - 4

William C. Gaines

Robert E. Lee and the Construction of Fort Carroll, Maryland - 40

Dale A. Manuel

Fort Barrette and the 16-Inch Guns of the Kapolei Military Reservation - 55

John D. Bennett

Japanese Early-Modern Coastal Defenses: Naruto, Sasebo, and Nagasaki - 73

D.P. Kirchner

REVIEWS

Guarding the Crossroads: Security and Defense of the Panama Canal. By Charles Morris Brooks - 104

West Wind, Flood Tide. By Jack Friend - 105

American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide, Second Edition, Mark A. Berhow, Editor - 106

Fortifications in Wessex c. 800 - 1066, Fortress No. 14. By Ryan Lavelle - 107

Norman Stone Castles (1): The British Isles 1066 - 1216, Fortress No. 13 and

Norman Stone Castles (2): Europe 950 - 1204, Fortress No. 18. By Christopher Gravette - 107

Germany s West Wall: The Siegfried Line, Fortress No. 15. By Neil Short - 108

Fortresses of the Peninsula War 1808 - 14, Fortress No. 12. By Ian Fletcher - 109

Les Batteries Cotieres En France: Volume I, Les Batteries Lourdes De Marine. By Alain Chazette -110

(The Coastal Batteries in France: Volume I, Heavy Naval Batteries)

Tobruk Typology: Atlanticwall - Southwall. By Alain Chazette, Bernard Patch, Alain Destouches, and Emmanuel Boulard - 110

Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: A Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines. By Jack Bell - 111

Errata

Cover caption corrections to CDJ 18:2 - 112


CD Journal Volume 18, Issue 4, November 2004

Articles

Random Recollections 1882-1963 - 4

Fulton Quintus Cincinnatus Gardner

Naval Air Station Johnston Island's World War Two Marine Garrison - 49

John D. Bennett

Tours-Modèles in America - 65

Dale A. Manuel

Wally's World War Two - 82

Walter Wally Bates As told to Ed Jerue

The Portsmouth Armory and the Coast Defenses of Portsmouth - 97

Pete Payette

Notes

Battery Geary's Loaded Mortar - 103

Greg Hagge

Basic Research in Textual Records at the National Archives - 109

Bolling Smith & Glen Williford

Reviews

Los Canones de La Coruna by Juan Vazquez Garcia and Lucas Molina Franco - 115

The Regulars: The American Army 1898 -1941 by Edward M. Coffman - 116


CD Journal Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2005

Articles

What We Do - and Don't - Know About the Sea Forts of Tokyo Bay - 4

D.P. Kirchner

Some Notes on Canadian Hotchkiss Six-Pounder Coast Artillery Guns - 35

David Morgan

The US Navy and the Coast Defenses of the Spanish Empire - 43

Philip Sims

Battery Arizona and the Kahe Point Military Reservation - 61

John D. Bennett

Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: The Court-Martial of Maj. Benjamin M. Koehler, C.A.C., Fort Terry, NY - 81

Bolling W. Smith

Reviews

The Coastal Batteries in France: Volume II, The Heavy Railway Batteries: The Batteries 194 mm to 240 mm, by Alain Chazette - 89

Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage by Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, and Leo Polaski - 90

The Guns of the North-East: Coastal Defenses from the Tyne to the Humber, by Joe Foster 91

Fortress America: The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present, by J.E. Kaufmann & H.W. Kaufmann - 91

Modern European Military Fortifications, 1870-1950: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography, edited by J.E. Kaufmann and Clayton Donnell - 92

The Fortifications of Malta: 1530-1945, by Charles Stephenson - 93

British Home Defences: 1940 - 45, by Bernard Lowry - 94

Mycenaean Citadels: c. 1350 - 1200 BC., by Nic Fields - 94

Troy: c. 1700 - 1250 BC,. by Nic Fields - 94

Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 1097 - 1192 , by David Nicolle - 95

Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1): The Red-Brick Castles of Prussia, 1230 - 1466, By Stephen Turnbull - 96

Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2): The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia, 1185 - 1560, By Stephen Turnbull - 96

The Walls of Constantinople: AD 324 - 1453, by Stephen Trumbull - 96

Japanese Castles: 1540 - 1640, by Stephen Trumbull - 97

Fortifications on the Western Front: 1914 - 1918, by Paddy Griffith - 97

German Field Fortifications: 1939 - 1945, by Gordon Rottman - 98

Afghanistan Cave Complexes: 1979 - 2004, by Mir Bahmanyar - 98

Fortress Builder: Bernard de Gomme, Charles II's Military Engineer, by Andrew Saunders - 99

Long Island's Military History, by Glen Williford and Leo Polaski - 100


CD Journal Volume 19, Issue 2, May 2005

Articles

A Military History of Diamond Head and Fort Ruger (Part I) - 4

William C. Gaines

The National Land Defense Board and the Land Defense of Endicott-Taft Seacoast Forts - 42

Bolling W. Smith

Kaena Point Military Reservation - 74

John D. Bennett

Review

The Fragile Forts: The Fixed Defences of Sydney Harbour 1788 - 1966, by Peter Oppenheim - 104


CD Journal Volume 19, Issue 3, August 2005

Articles

A Military History of Diamond Head and Fort Ruger (Part 2) - 4

William C. Gaines

Early-Modern Seacoast Defenses of Tokyo Bay (Part 1) - 47

D.P. Kirchner

Addendum

Additional Information, Kaena Point Military Reservation - 100

Note

A Sailor s View of Grande Island, Subic Bay, P.I. - 101 Charles H. Bogart Book

Review

Andrew Foote: Civil War Admiral on Western Waters (Library of Naval Biography), by Spencer C. Tucker - 102


CD Journal Volume 19, Issue 4, November 2005

Articles

Early-Modern Seacoast Defenses of Tokyo Bay (Part 2) - 4

D.P. Kirchner

Recollections of Fort Kamehameha, c. 1924-25 - 41

John D. Bennett

Col. Edward Harcourt, Chief Engineer, Army of the Republic of Texas - 51

Dale A. Manuel

Donald R. Kennedy s Reminiscences of Coast Artillery Duty - 59

John D. Bennett

Interview with Oscar Albert Sowers, 252nd CA - 69

Charles H. Bogart

The Canton Island Defense Force in World War II - 72

John D. Bennett

Note

Defying Aerial Attack: Batteries A and K, 60th Coast Artillery (AA), on Corregidor - 89

Charles H. Bogart

Book Reviews

French Fortresses in North America 1535 - 1763, by René Chartrand - 94

Crusader Castles in the Holy Land 1192 - 1302, by David Nicolle - 95

Fort Eben Emael: The Key to Hitler s Victory in the West, by Simon Dunstan - 95

Rome s Northern Frontier AD 70 - 235, by Nic Fields - 96

Forts of the American Frontier 1820 - 91: Central and Northern Plains, by Ron Field - 96

US World War II and Korean War Field Fortifications 1941 - 53, by Gordon Rottman - 97

Special Forces Camps in Vietnam 1961 - 70, by Gordon Rottman - 97

Saint John Fortifications: 1630 - 1956, by Roger Sarty and Doug Knight - 98


CD Journal Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2006

Articles

The Torre de Belem: A Coastal Fortification Like No Other- 4

Charles H. Bogart

92nd Coast Artillery Regiment (Philippine Scouts) - 11

William C. Gaines

1945 Study of Seacoast Battery Requirements, Hawaiian Islands - 34

John D. Bennett

Spanish Towers in the Philippines - 48

D.P. Kirchner

Andy Schneider and the Coast Artillery - 79

Compiled and edited by Bolling W. Smith

Book Reviews

Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, by J.E. Kaufmann & H.W. Kaufmann - 98

D-Day Fortifications in Normandy, by Steven J. Zaloga - 99

American Civil War Fortifications (2) Land and Field Fortifications, by Ron Field - 100

British Fortifications in Zululand 1879, by Ian Knight - 100

Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries 710-1602, by Stephen Turnbull - 101

US Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems 1950-2004, by Mark A. Berhow - 101

Ancient Greek Fortifications 500-300 BC, by Nic Fields - 102


CD Journal Volume 20, Issue 2, May 2006

Articles

Fort Wayne: Detroit's Seacoast Fortification - 4

William C. Gaines

Oahu's World War II Fixed Seacoast Batteries - 30

John D. Bennett

Commandant of Vladivostok Fortified Region - 56

Vladimir I. Kalinin

Book Reviews

The Great Siege: Knights vs. Turks MDLXV - Anatomy of a Hospitaller Victory by Stephen C. Spiteri - 92

The Channel Islands 1941 - 45 by Charles Stephenson - 93

The Vauban Fortifications of France by Paddy Griffith - 94

Russian Fortresses 1480-1682 by Konstantin Nossov - 95

Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans 1450-1650 by Stuart Reid - 95

Roman Legionary Fortresses 27 BC-AD 378 by Duncan B. Campbell - 96

US Army World War II Amphibious Tactics: Army & Marine Corps, Pacific Theater by Gordon Rottman - 97

The Marshall Islands 1944: Operation Flintlock, the Capture of Kwajalein and Eniwetok by Gordon Rottman - 97

Saipan & Tinian 1944: Piercing the Japanese Empire by Gordon Rottman - 97

Guam 1941 & 1944: Loss and Reconquest by Gordon Rottman - 97

Gallipoli 1915: Frontal Assault on Turkey by Philip J. Haythornthwaite - 99

Napoleon's Guns 1792-1815 (2): Heavy and Siege Artillery by Rene Chartrand - 99

British Napoleonic Artillery 1793-1815 (2): Siege and Coastal Artillery by Chris Henry - 99

British Artillery 1914-19: Heavy Artillery by Dale Clark - 100

88 mm Flak 18/36/37/41 & PaK 43 1936-45 by John Norris - 101

Armaments & Fortress Works of the Atlantic Wall, Vol. 1, by Alain Chazette, Alain Destouches, Bernard Paich, and Jacques Tomine - 101

Images of America: Fort MacArthur, by Stephen R. Nelson and David K. Appel - 102


CD Journal Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2006

Articles

28th Coast Artillery Battalion and the Defense of Saint Lucia and Ascension Islands - 4

William C. Gaines

Temporary Housing for New Alaskan Bases - 23

Glen M. Williford

Fort Maurepas, Vieux Biloxi - 31

Dale A. Manuel

Surviving Japanese Coastal Defense Guns, a Preliminary Inventory - 39

D. Colt Denfeld and Glen Williford

Puu-o-Hulu Military Reservation, 1923-1945- 50

John D. Bennett

The Bombardment of Fort St. Philip - 79

Dale A. Manuel

Dummy Guns in Brooklyn - 89

Bolling Smith

Note

Commentary on Cover Photos for Vol. 20, No. 2 - 92

Greg Hagge

Book Reviews

Fort Montgomery through the Years by James P. Millard - 94

Delaware s Ghost Towers by William C. Grayson - 94

Images of America: Fort Miles by Dr. Gary Wray and Lee Jennings - 95

German Bunkers in Denmark: A Survey by Jens Andersen and Rudi Rolf - 96

Ostwall: Die vergessene Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen by Christel Focken - 96

American Coastal Defenses 1885-1950 by Terrance McGovern & Bolling Smith - 97

The Spanish Main 1492-1800 by René Chartrand - 98

German Defences in Italy in World War II by Neil Short - 99

Fortifications of the Incas 1200-1531 by H.W. Kaufmann and J.E. Kaufmann - 99

Viet Cong and NVA Tunnels and Fortifications of the Vietnam War by Gordon Rottman - 100

Indian Castles 1206-1526: The Rise and Fall of the Delhi Sultanate by Konstantin S. Nossov -100

The Forts of Celtic Britain by Angus Konstam - 101

Harbor Forts: A Look behind the Walls 1775-1945 by Joel W. Eastman - 101

Kuestenbefestigungen (2); fortifikation Sonderausgabe 8, 2006 by Herbert Jaeger, Karl-Heinz Kimmich, Florian Brouwers, and Ole Andersen - 102


CD Journal Volume 20, Issue 4, November 2006

Articles

The Inner Harbor Fortifications of New York - 4

William C. Gaines

Notes

Defending the North Korean Coast during the Korean War - 75

Charles H. Bogart

Photographs of German Coast Defense Guns at Tsingtao - 77

Philip Sims

Book Reviews

Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989, by Wayne D. Cocroft & Roger J.C. Thomas, ed. by P.S. Barnwell - 81

Four Minute Warning: Britain s Cold War, by Bob Clarke - 81

Beaches, Fields, Streets, and Hills: The Anti-Invasion Landscapes of England 1940, by William Foot - 82

Pillboxes: Images of an Unfought Battle, by Ian J. Sanders - 82

AA Command: Britain s Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War, by Colin Dobinson - 83

The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068 - 1945, by Darren Fa and Clive Finlayson - 84

Defending Space: US Anti-Satellite Warfare and Space Weaponry, by Clayton K.S. Chun - 85

Cathar Castles: Fortresses of the Albigensian Crusade 1209-1300, by Marcus Cowper - 85

Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91: The Southern Plains and Southwest, by Ron Field - 86

Discovering Fortifications: From the Tudors to the Cold War, by Bernard Lowry - 87

Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape, by Mike Osborne - 87

London s Secret Tubes: London s Wartime Citadels, Subways and Shelters Uncovered, by Andrew Emmerson & Tony Beard - 88


CD Journal Volume 21, Issue 1, February 2007

Articles

On the Spur: Evidence from Serapong Battery, Fixed Defences of Singapore - 4

Nelson H. Lawry, Peter W. Stubbs, Lim Chen Sian, and Aaron Kao

The Fortifications of Pelican Spit, Galveston Harbor- 21

Dale A. Manuel

Oahu s World War Two 5-Inch Naval Antiaircraft Shore Batteries - 31

John D. Bennett

The Railway Artillery Reserve, A.E.F., 1917-1918 - 68

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

America s Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida, by Thomas Reid - 87

Les Batteries Cotieres du Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Dunkerque-Calais-Boulogne: France 40-Mur de L Atlantique, by Alain Chazette et al. - 88

Les Batteries du Secteur de Gris-Nez: Todt-Grosser-Kurfurst-Gris-Nez, by Alain Chazette et al. - 88

Tank Turret Fortifications, by Neil Short - 89

Seefront IJmuiden: Duitse Bunkers in de Kustverdediging van de Festung IJmuiden, by Ruud Pols & Leo de Vries - 90

De Atlanticwall op Goeree: Bunkers op de Grens Van Land en Water, by Peter Heijkoop & Jeroen Rijpsma - 90

Eisenbahnartillerie - Histoire de l artillerie lourde sur voie ferrée Allemande des origines a 1945, By General Guy Francois - 91

Rome s Saxon Shore: Coastal Defences of Roman Britain AD 250 - 500, by Nic Fields - 92

The Great Wall of China 221 BC - AD 1644, by Stephen Trumbull - 93

Vietnam Firebases 1965-73: American and Australian Forces, by Randy E.M. Foster - 94


CD Journal Volume 21, Issue 2, May 2007

Articles

Caponiers of the Third System - 4

Dale A. Manuel

My Military Life - 33

John E. Huntoon

The Transitional Coast Defense Generation, American Seacoast Defenses of the 1870s - 51

Glen M. Williford

Notes

German Seacoast Defenses at Tsingtao, 1914 - 85

CDR Charles B. Robbins, USN (Ret.)

Addendum on Mark IV 9.2-inch BL guns in the Harbor Defences of Singapore - 91

Nelson H. Lawry and Peter W. Stubbs

Book Reviews

Vladivostok Fortress, by N.B. Ajushin, V.I. Kalinin, S.A. Vrobyev, and N.V. Garilkin - 92

US Field Artillery of World War II, by Steven J. Zaloga - 93

Forts of the United States: An Historical Dictionary, 16th - 19th Centuries, by Bud Hannings - 93

Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191-1571, by David Nicolle - 95

The Forts of the Meuse in World War I, by Clayton Donnell - 95

Medieval Russian Fortresses AD 862 - 1480, by Konstantin S. Nossov - 96

The Siegfried Line 1944 - 45: Battles on the German Frontier, by Steven J. Zalonga - 96

Robert David Zink, a Personal Tribute - 97

E.R. Lewis


CD Journal Volume 21, Issue 3, August 2007

Articles

Corregidor, the Early Years - 4

William Gaines

Camouflaging Seacoast and Antiaircraft Artillery Batteries on Oahu, T.H. 1941-45 - 24

John D. Bennett

U.S.N. Mine Defense of Espiritu Santo - 43

Charles H. Bogart

American Seacoast Defense Sites of the 1870s: Part I, Maine - New York - 51

Glen Williford

The USS Missouri and the Silkworm - 94

Charles H. Bogart

Book Reviews

Austriacko-Wegierska Artyleria Forteczna W Przededniu Wybuchu I Wojny Swiatowej (Austro-

Hungarian Fortress Artillery on the Eve of World War I), by Przemyslaw Jaskolowski - 98

La Batteria Amalfi nella Grande Guerra: Die Batterie Amalfi im Ersten Weltkrieg: The Amalfi Battery

during the Great War, by Furio Lazzarini - 98

The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade, by William St. Clair - 99

Forteresse Boulogne-sur-Mer 1939-1944 Occupation-Fortifications-Liberation,by Alain Chazette, et al. ... 100

The Atlantic Wall (1): France, by Steven J. Zaloga - 101

Soviet Field Fortifications 1941 - 45, by Gordon Rottman - 102

The Fall of Constantinople: The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium,by David Nicolle, John Haldon, and Steven Turnbull - 103

De Kust Bezet 1914-1918 (The Coast Occupied 1914-1918), by Alex Deseyne - 104


CD Journal Volume 21, Issue 4, November 2007

Articles

The Seacoast Defenses of Galveston, Texas - 4

William Gaines

American Seacoast Defense Sites of the 1870s, Part II Delaware River - San Francisco - 59

Glen Williford

Book Reviews

Coast Artillery in the Gibraltar Region 1936-2004: RACTA No. 5 by Cesar Sanchez de Alcazar - 111

Austro-Hungarian Fortification at the Time of Conrad von Hotzendorf by Eduard Steinitz & Theodor Brosch - 111

The Castles of Henry VIII by Peter Harrington - 112

The Castles of Edward I in Wales: 1277 -1307 by Christopher Gravett - 113

Corregidor in Peace and War, by Charles M. Hubbard & Collis H. Davis, Jr. - 114


CD Journal Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2008

Articles

Oahu s 8-inch Naval Turret Batteries 1942-1949 - 4

John D. Bennett

Fifty-Second Coast Artillery (Railway) Regiment - 56

William Gaines

A Second Look at the Coast Artillery Defending Singapore, 1930-1956 - 88

Nelson H. Lawry and Peter W. Stubbs

Notes

Clearing the Air: Photos of the 10-inch Breech-Loading Mortar - 95

Greg Hagge

Book Reviews

Suffolks Defended Shore: Coastal Fortifications from the Air, by Cain Hegarty and Sarah Newsome - 98

Japanese Castles in Korea 1592 - 98, by Stephen Turnbull - 99

American Civil War Fortifications (3): The Mississippi and River Forts, by Ron Field - 100

Britains Air Defences 1939-45, by Dr. Alfred Price - 100

The Great War Syndicate, by Frank R. Stockton - 101

Report to the Government of the United States on the Munitions of War Exhibited at the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867, by Charles B. Norton and William J. Valentine, United States Commissioners - 101

Fort Hancock, by Thomas Hoffman - 102


CD Journal Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2008

Articles

World War II Machine-Gun Pillboxes, Coast Defense & Other Stations in the Hawaiian Islands - 4

John D. Bennett

Coast Artillery Organization: A Brief Overview - 33

Bolling W. Smith & William C. Gaines

World War II Luftwaffe Barrage Balloons - 77

Charles H. Bogart

Two Soldiers Perspectives of Fort Terry - 81

From Bolling Smith s collection

Book Reviews

The Austro-Hungarian Artillery from 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization and Tactics, by M. Christian Ortner - 92

The Endicott-Taft Reports, the CDSG Press reprint edition - 93

German V Weapon Sites 1943-45, by Steven J. Zaloga - 95

The Berlin Wall and the Intra-German Border 1961-89, by Gordon L. Rottman - 96

Hittite Fortifications c.1650-700 BC, by Konstantine S. Nossov - 96

The Walls of Rome, by Nic Fields - 97

Japanese Castles AD 250-1540, by Stephen Turnbull - 98

Strongholds of the Border Reivers: Fortifications of the Anglo-Scottish Border 1296-1603, by Keith Durham - 98


CD Journal Volume 22, Issue 3, August 2008

Articles

Makapuu Point Military Reservation, 1922-1961 - 4

John D. Bennett

265th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment - 26

William C. Gaines

Controlled Minefields and the Destruction of UB-109 and UB-116 - 48

Charles H. Bogart

Memories of World War Two in Long Island Sound - 52

Clayton Lathrop

Mine Defense of Singapore - 56

Charles H. Bogart

Coast Artillery Companies 1901-1924 - 60

Bolling W. Smith

Hicks Dynamite Engine - 85

Bolling W. Smith

Book Reviews

The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600-1763, by Rene Chartrand - 91

The Forts of Judaea 168 BC-AD 73, by Samuel Rocca - 92

Saracen Strongholds AD 630-1050: The Middle East and Central Asia, by David Nicolle- 92


CD Journal Volume 22, Issue 4, November 2008

Articles

Defending the Narrows: The Harbor Defenses of Southern New York Part I: The Muzzleloading Era, 1524-1890 - 4

William C. Gaines

General John D. Barrette - 83

John D. Bennett

Book Reviews

Ersta - From Small Beginnings to Historic Listed Monuments: a History of 12 cm Coast Artillery

Battery m/70, by Lars Hansson and Lars A. Hansson - 88

The 26th Yankee Division on Coast Patrol Duty, 1942-1943, by Dennis A. Connole - 89

The German Fortress of Metz 1870-1944, by Clayton Donnell - 90

The Stalin and Molotov Lines: Soviet Western Fortifications 1928-41, by Neil Short - 91

Errata: August Issue Cover Photo Captions - 92


CD Journal Volume 23, Issue 1, February 2009

Articles

Defending the Narrows: The Harbor Defenses of Southern New York Part II, The Breechloading Era, 1890-1950- 4

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

Israeli Fortifications of the October War 1973, by Simon Dunstan - 90

British Forts in the Age of Arthur, by Angus Konstam - 90

Crusader Castles in the Holy Land, by David Nicolle - 91

The Stalin and Molotov Lines: Soviet Western Fortifications 1928-41, by Neil Short - 92

Index de la Fortification Francaise 1874-1914, Metropole and Outremer, by Jean Puelinckx, Jean Jacques Moulins, Marco Frijns, and Luc Malchair - 93

The History of ARADCOM, Volume I, The Gun Era: 1950-1955, by Lt. Col. Roy S. Barnard - 94


CD Journal Volume 23, Issue 2, May 2009

Articles

Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950 Part I, Coast Artillery Regiments 1-196 - 4

William C. Gaines

Koko Head, Fire Control and Searchlight Station and Military Reservation, Maunalua, Oahu, T.H. - 52

John D. Bennett

The Coast Artillery on Shemya Island, 1943-1947 - 79

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

The k.u.k. Fortress Artillery: 1867-1918, by Erwin Grestenberger - 89

Fortress Warfare in the High Mountains: The Battle for the Austrian and Italian High Mountain Forts in South Tyrol in the First World War, by Rolf Hentzschel - 89

The Garrison Guns of Australia 1788-1962, by David W. Spethman - 90

The Art of Fortress Building in Hospitaller Malta, by Stephen C. Spiteri - 91

Scottish Baronial Castles 1250-1450, by Michael Brown - 92

Strongholds of the Samurai: Japanese Castles 250-1877, by Stephen Turnbull - 93

Images of America: Fort Stevens, by Susan L. Glen - 93

Cover Photo

Brig. Gen. Joseph G. Totten, chief of engineers, 1863 (Library of Congress)


CD Journal Volume 23, Issue 3, August 2009

Articles

The Fire Control Puzzle at New Orleans - 4

Bolling W. Smith

Ashley Military Reservation (155 mm Gun Battery) - 55

John D. Bennett

Take Two 25-ton Cannon, Several Miles of Torpedo Cable, and a Bored Engineer -Kings Electromagnet - 65

Karl Fritz

Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950 Part II, Coast Artillery Regiments, OR and AUS - 70

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

The Atlantic Wall in the Bay of Wissant - From Cape Blanc-nez to Cape Gris-nez, by Herve Olejniczak, Jorg Poweleit, Dirk Peeters, and Yannick Delefosse - 94

Personnel Bunkers of the German Navy - A Report, by Holger Raddatz - 94

American Coastal Rescue Craft, by William D. Wilkinson and Timothy R. Dring - 95

Roman Auxiliary Forts 27 BC - AD 378, by Duncan B. Campbell - 96

Harbor Defenses of San Francisco - A Field Guide 1890 to 1950, by Matthew W. Kent - 97

Sudwall: Mittelmeerkustenfront: Les Batteries cotieres de Marine Francaises et Allemandes,

Marine-Artillerie-Abteilungen by Alain Chazette and Pierre Gimenez - 97

Toul: Die Geschichte einer Franzosischen Lagerfestung by Inge and Dieter Wernet - 98

Errata - 98

Cover Photo

Maj. William R. King, Corps of Engineers.


CD Journal Volume 23, Issue 4, November 2009

Articles

The Outer Screen, the Waiting Punch, and the Common Pattern - 4

D.P. Kirchner

Tutuilas Garrison and Harbor Defenses, 1941-45 - 51

John D. Bennett

Book Reviews

Saracen Strongholds 1100-1500, by David Nicolle

Cover Photo

Fort Worden, Washington, 1937 (NARA)


CD Journal Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2010

Articles

Early-Modern French Seacoast Ordnance - 4

D.P. Kirchner and C.B. Robbins

Oahu s Solitary 8-inch 1940-Project Battery Construction No. 405 (Battery Robert E. DeMerritt) - 33

John D. Bennett

The Modern Coast Defenses of Mobile Bay 1865-1945 (Part 1) - 61

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

Fort Douaumont, Verdun, by Christina Holstein - 102

The Atlantic Wall (2): Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, by Steven J. Zaloga - 103

Scapa Flow, The Defense of Britainâs Great Fleet Anchorage 1914-45, by Angus Konstam - 104

The Mannerheim Line 1920-39, Finnish Fortifications of the Winter War, by Bair Irincheev - 105

English Castles 1200-1300, by Christopher Gravett - 106

Maori Fortifications, by Ian Knight - 106

Chinese Walled Cities 221 BC-AD 1644, by Stephen Turnbull - 107

Greek Fortifications of Asia Minor 500-130 BC, From the Persian Wars to the Roman Conquest, by Konstantine S. Nossov - 108

Blockhouse & Battery, A History of Fort Edgecomb, by Joshua M. Smith - 109

Searching for the Atlantic Wall in Norway, Volume I, the South and the West, from Oslo Fjord to that of Trondheim, by Jean-Bernard Wahl, et le Groupe ARN - 110

Errata - 110

Cover Photo

Three soldiers of the 63rd Company, CAC, Fort Worden, WA. Bolling Smith collection.


CD Journal Volume 24, Issue 2, May 2010

Articles

Battery Elmer J. Wallace and the Ammunition Supply Experiment - 4

Bolling W. Smith

Theodore Timby and His Turret - 20

Karl Fritz

They Did Make Mistakes - Engineer Errors in the Taft Era - 35

Glen Williford

Battery Monument, Kauai, T.H., 1943-44 An Update - 50

John D. Bennett

The Modern Coast Defenses of Mobile Bay 1865-1945 (Part II) - 57

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

Military Constructions and Complexes in the Region of Cattaro (Kotor) by Norbert Zsupanek - 98

Arms and Fortifications of the Atlantic Wall - Volume 2 by Alain Chazette, William Meignen, Alain Destouches, Bernard Paich, and Jacques Tomine - 98

The Fortifications of Ancient Israel and Judah 1200-586 BC by Samuel Rocca - 99

Strongholds of the Picts: The Fortifications of Dark Age Scotland by Angus Konstam - 99

Ottoman Fortifications 1300-1710 by David Nicolle - 100

Maginot Line 1940: Battles on the French Frontier by Marc Romanych and Martin Rupp - 100

French Fortifications, 1715-1815: An Illustrated History by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage - 101

Men and Works of the Maginot Line, Vol. 1 - 5 by Jean-Yves Mary, Alain Hohnadel, Jacques Sicard - 102

The Atlas of Kaunas Fortress by Vladimir Orlov, Jelena Vitkauskiene, & Vladimir Kalinin - 103

Cover Photo

Fort Barry 1939. Battery Elmer J. Wallace is in the center of the photo. NARA.


CD Journal Volume 24, Issue 3, August 2010

Articles

The Modern Coast Defenses of Mobile Bay 1865-1945 (Part III) - 4

William C. Gaines

Baker Islands World War II Garrison - 31

John D. Bennett

Covering the Bungo Channel The Tsurumisaki Group 1926 - 1945 - 53

David P. Kirchner

The Muzzle Rope at Battery Kingman, Fort Hancock, NJ - 84

Greg Hagge & Bolling W. Smith

U.S. Artillery School, Class of 1884 - 88

Bolling Smith

Book Reviews

Spanish Colonial Fortifications in North America 1565-1822, by Alejandro de Quesada - 90

The Forts of New France: Great Lakes, the Plains, and the Gulf Coast 1600 - 1763 by Rene Chartrand - 91

The Fortress of Rhodes 1309 - 1522, by Konstantin Nossov - 92

Fortifications of Swinemunde, by Piotr Laskowski - 92

Noirmoutier during the German Occupation - Link in the Atlantic Wall, by Alain Chazette - 93

The Last Missile Site, by Stephen A. Haller and John Martini - 93

The Fort de l Eve - Historical Heritage 1859-1945, by Alain Chazette & William Meignen - 94

Cover Photo

Battery Kingman being fired at Fort Hancock, June/July 1919. Note rope around the muzzle of the gun. NARA Still Pictures, 111-SC-WWI, SC Photo 60727.


CD Journal Volume 24, Issue 4, November 2010

Articles

The Formation of the Endicott Board - 4

Karl Fritz

A Personal Account of the Coast Artillery in the Harbor Defenses of San Francisco during World War Two --18

Col. John Schonher, Ret.

Haleiwa Field and the OQ-2A Antiaircraft Target Drone - 36

John D. Bennett

A History of Fort DeRussy - 47

William C. Gaines

Book Reviews

The History of Fort Casey and the Defense of the Pacific Northwest by Terry Buchanan - 96

The Chesapeake Bay at War by Terrance McGovern - 97

Rings of Supersonic Steel: An Introduction & Site Guide: by Mark L. Morgan and Mark A. Berhow - 98

Colditz: OFLAG IV-C, by Michael McNally - 98

The Fortifications of Ancient Egypt 3000-1780, by Carola Vogel -99

Women in the Wild Blue: Target-Towing WASP at Camp Davis, by David A. Stallman - 99

The Ligurian Wall - The Defense Line Constructed by the Nazi-Fascist Forces by Gabriele Faggioni - 100

The Guns of Victory 1914-1918, Vol. 3: Coast Artillery and Trench Artillery by General Guy Francois - 101

Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861 by Mark A. Smith - 102

Cover Photos

Front: One of the 12-inch guns of Battery Selfridge, Fort Kamehameha, T.H (corrected caption  2/11)

Rear: Fort DeRussy, 1932


CD Journal Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2011

Articles

Manawahua Military Reservation, Oahu, T.H. - 4

John D. Bennett

Ten Spanish Towers - 20

David P. Kirchner

The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946 - 37

Part I: Portland s Initial Defenses

William C. Gaines

A Puzzling Photo: A Historical Mystery Solved - 87

Oleg Balashov & Valery Lukin

Book Reviews

Racing the Sunrise, by Glen Williford - 93

The Fuhrers Headquarters: Hitlers Command Bunkers 1939-45, by Neil Short - 94

Defense of Japan 1945, by Steven J. Zaloga - 94

The Forts of Colonial North America: British, Dutch and Swedish Colonies, by Rene Chartrand - 95

Fortresss City Cologne - The Stronghold in the West, by Henriette Meynen (ed.) et al. - 96

Officers Row 1904 - Forgotten Soldiers of Fort Rosecrans, by Mary Ellen Cortellini - 97

Errata

The photograph of the disappearing gun on the front cover of Volume 24, No. 4, is of 12-inch Battery Selfridge, Fort Kamehameha, T.H., as is the lower photo on p. 60.

Cover Photos

Front: Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island, 1924, NARA Rear: Fort Wetherill, the Dumplings, Rhode Island, NARA


CD Journal Volume 25, Issue 2, May 2011

 

Articles

Oahus 12-inch D.C. Battery: Thomas E. Selfridge - 4

John D. Bennett

The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946 - 15

Part II Modern Batteries

William C. Gaines

The Seacoast Defense Projects Branch and its Records - 78

Bolling W. Smith

Fort Barry Radio and Switchboard Room - 82

Matthew W. Kent

A Nations Peril - The Movie - 88

Karl Fritz

Reviews

Artillerists and Engineers: The Beginnings of American Seacoast Fortifications 1794 – 1815 by Arthur P. Wade - 91

Standard Construction of the Air Force, by Patrick Fleuridas, Karel Herbots, and Dirk Peeters - 92

Treatise on Service Ordnance (7th edition, 1908) & Treatise on Military Carriages and Stores Connected with Them (7th Edition, 1911) HMSO, London - 92

U.S. Army Order of Battle 1919-1942, Volume 1, Volume 2, by Steven E. Clay - 93

Defense of the Rhine 1944-45, by Steven Zaloga - 95

Forts in Miniature - 96

Front Cover Photo

That raised arm means ready ... aim .. Its the signal for one of Fort Storys big guns to fire away. Fort Story, VA, March 1942. The soldiers photographed at Fort Story are probably members of the 246th Coast Artillery Regiment, formerly Virginia National Guard. Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Photo D-3089, NARA Still Pictures 208-AA 125M.

CD Journal Volume 25, Issue 3, August 2011

Articles
The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946, Part III 1905-1939 - 4
William C. Gaines
Guardian of the Kolyma Gold: Coast Artillery Fortifications in the Permafrost - 51
Alexandr Panasenko & Vladimir Kalinin

Book Reviews
A Gun for All Nations: The 37 mm Gun & Ammunition, Volume 1 1870-1913 by Robert A. Mellichamp - 93
The Fortifications of Verdun 1874 – 1917 by Clayton Donnell - 94
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas: Tibet, Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan by Peter Harrison - 95
Fortifications of the Monarchy:  K.K. and K.u.K. Fortifications from Napoleon to Petit Trianon, a Typological Study by Rudi Rolf -96
The Atlantic Wall: The Coast Batteries in Normandy:  From Le Havre to Cherbourg and Granville: 1939-1940 by Alain Chazette - 97
Amphibious Warfare: Strategy and Tactics by Ian Speller and Christopher Tuck - 98

Front Cover Photo
M1900 6-inch gun, Battery Worcester, BCN 224. The soldiers in this series of pictures on the covers for this issue taken at Fort Story, VA, in March of 1942 are probably members of the 246th Coast Artillery Regiment, formerly Virginia National Guard. Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
Photo D-3074, NARA Still Pictures 208-AA 125P.

CD Journal Volume 25, Issue 4, November 2011

Articles

Women and the Coast Artillery - 4
Phil Payette & Kieren Fletcher
Battery Granger Adams: Oahus Original 8-inch Fixed Battery - 17
John D. Bennett
The Flight over Panama: The Air Threat Goes Public - 32
Karl Fritz
Officers’ Gunnery School, Hawaiian Seacoast Artillery Command - 38
John D. Bennett
The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946, Part IV - 1940-1950 - 42
William C. Gaines
Fort Wool and the Statue of Columbus - 95
Karl Fritz

Reviews

The Maginot Line and the 20th Century French Fortifications on Corsica - 97
Wake Island 1941, A Battle to Make the Gods Weep - 98
Le Fort de la Martiniere, Defenseur de Quebec - 98
Harbor Defenses of San Francisco – A Field Guide 1890 to 1950 - 99
Naval Firepower, Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era - 100

Front Cover Photo

British 9.2-inch coast defense gun at Devil’s Battery, Hartlen Point, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, during World War II. This battery, now disarmed in a golf course, was visited during the 2011 CDSG special tour to Canada. Bolling Smith Collection.

 

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