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These are PDF files of the CDSG membership brochure and "recruiting" posters. Download these documents, get some copies made, and take them with you when visit museums, parks, and used bookstores. Your help in promoting the CDSG organization is appreciated.
Hint: to make the tri-fold brochure fold correctly, you will need to trim off about 1/4 inch off of each side after you make the two-sided photocopies!
Addtional handout material for the 2008 Galveston CDSG meeting GalvestonAddition.pdf (25 MB)
New! DERPS-FUDS report on the Kahe Point Military Reservation, Hawaii
NEW! DERPS-FUDS report on Battery Ricker, Hawaii
NEW! DERPS-FUDS report on Battery Riggs, Hawaii
NEW! DERPS-FUDS report on Battery Will (Kirkpatrick), Hawaii
NEW PDF report - Test Firing Against Obsolete Battleship at Pensacola, 1920
Damage Tables Seacost Artillery Against Naval Vessels" 1942 (3.5 MB)
A list of First, Second, and Third System forts 123list.pdf
A list of modern era (1890-1945) forts and batteries (revised May 6, 2008): CDlist08.pdf
A list of Surviving American Seacoast Weapons. (revised 2003) survive.pdf
An annotated American seacoast artillery bibliography: CDbiblio.pdf
Army Technical Manual titles (TMs) related to Coast Artillery
Army Field Manual titles (FMs) related to Coast Artillery
Army Ordnance Department Document titles (ODDs) related to Coast Artillery
Manual for GE 25 Kw generator (Instruction book)
Directory page US Coast Artillery Corps. of PDF documents on the organization and insignia of the Coast Artillery Corps).
Directory page of Coast Artillery harbor defense map PDF downloads (various dates 1920-1945).