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 […]
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 […]
The CDSG Fund and CDSG Press is pleased to announce a joint plan to encourage our members to recommend owners and their staffs that deal with the “care and feeding” of former U.S. coast defense […]
The third edition of American Seacoast Defenses, a Reference Guide (ASD3) is now available as BOTH hard cover print edition and an electronic PDF document. The third edition features updated and enhanced photographs throughout the book, with an extensive revision of the uniforms and insignia sections. The electronic version makes it great for searching […]
A collection of historical information on the harbor defense structures: batteries, fire control, mine support, searchlights, etc., built at the various harbor locations.
PDF listing of all Harbor Defense Document files
Reports of completed batteries (RCBs) and reports of completed works (RCWs) were forms […]
The CDSG Harbor Defense Documents listing continued …
In the National Archives Record Group 407, Records of the Adjutant Generals Office, 1917-, Entry 366, are filed the various Harbor Defense Projects of the 1930s & 1940s. A Harbor Defense Project was a written document which described all existing and […]
PRICING: We provide this as a service to our members and interested researchers. We are charging $50 for the larger and/or combined harbor defenses, $10 for the smaller Harbor Defenses. Delivery by download or USB drives by post are available.
SPECIAL OFFER: We are offering the entire Harbor […]
You can get the entire collection or request specific titles: Please contact Mark Berhow (berhowma@comcast.net) for details
A PDF file listing all the files available in the CDSG documents collection can be downloaded here.
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 […]
U.S. Army Military History Institute (http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usamhi/DL)
Several Army documents have been scanned and placed on line as downloadable PDF files.For example: Survey of Japanese Seacoast Artillery, 1946 by GHQ USAFPAC, Seacoast Artillery Board 160pp. This report by a board of coast artillery officers at the end of the war focuses primarily on the […]
