Occasionally members have various works they are offering to sell. These are NOT one time, single copy items, but are a set of publications or reprints that are offered to the membership of the CDSG. These offers are often included in the CDSG publications, and are posted here as well. For ordering information, click on the link.
HISTORY OF THE 700 AND 800 SERIES CANTONMENT CONSTRUCTION CD ROM: WW 2 and the U.S. ARMY MOBILIZATION PROGRAM: A History of the 700 and 800 Series Cantonment Construction including Historic American Building Survey documentation for Camp Edwards,MA and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. 552 pages, 82 illustrations, 152 pages of building drawings. This is a history of the World War Two Temporary Buildings built by the Quartermaster Corps. Barracks, Mess Halls, Storehouses, Motor Sheds and all the other temporary buildings put up at US Army Posts all over the United States. This is a PDF format CD-Rom. 25.00 postage paid. For info contact: ARMYJUNK1@aol.com.
HARBOR DEFENSE PHOTO COLLECTION OFFER
Recently a “new” source of aerial photographs of American coast artillery posts has been located at the National Archives within Record Group 342. Most date from the 1920s to 1930s and were shots taken during Air Corps observation squadron training flights of both existing and former forts, including a good number featuring coastal and Great Lakes fortifications. These photos have had little publication use in recent years. 145 photos have been selected for this offer.
Do note that not all harbors and forts are represented. The collection is what it is, and was never meant to be a survey of every post. While most harbors are represented, some are not. Likewise some forts are not well covered; in some cases (like Fort Hancock), all the existing photos were taken at such an altitude that little battery detail can be made out. The best coverage is for Portland, Boston, Newport, New York, Panama, Hawaii, and the Philippines.
These are photocopies of 8x10 prints—not actual photos or digital prints. However they are on a high-quality, coated paper, printed single-sided, and have been professionally copied. Still, these are photocopies of 8x10 prints!
Price, including pre-paid media-mail postage (3-4 weeks to deliver) is $25.00 per copy ($28.00 for priority mal). International orders please add for additional postage. Order from (with check or money order made out to Glen Williford) Glen Williford, 634 Silver Dawn Ct., Zionsville, IN 46077.
The CDSG Press and CDSG Fund is offering to donate copies of the first edition of of American Seacoast Defenses AND Pacific the Northwest Preservation Partnership Historic Fortification Preservation Handbook to parks, museums and libraries nominated by our membership. Click link to donation nomination form.
A Legacy in Brick in Brick and Stone: American Coastal Defense Forts of the Third System, 1816-1867 by John R. Weaver II (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co/Redoubt Press, 2001, from John Weaver for $25.00 plus $5.00 domestic shipping.
Osprey Publishing presents the Fortress series Featuring three new books by CDSG members. American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress 4) By Terrance McGovern and Mark Berhow, Defenses of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907-1950 (Fortress 8) by Terrance McGovern and Glen Williford, and American Coastal Defenses 1885-1950 by Bolling W. Smith and Terrance McGovern. The American Harbor Defenses of the
Panama Canal By Terrance McGovern, from Redoubt Press The Concrete Battleship; Fort Drum,
El Fraile Island, Manila Bay, by Francis J. Allen, (Pictorial Histories Publishing Co). A limited number of copies of FORT 2004 are available from Reboubt Press, the Fortress Study Group's Annual Journal. A limited number of copies of Fort 2005 are available from Reboubt Press, the Fortress Study Group's Annual Journal. Guardian
of the Sound: A Pictorial History of Fort H.G. Wright
Fishers Island, New York by Pierce Rafferty and John Wilton. The
above web site has PDF files of some of the text and a few examples
of the excellent collection of pictures in this book, plus ordering
information. U.S. $50.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling (NY
residents add $4.13 sales tax) c/o Pierce Rafferty.