This is a selection of 200 quality scanned photos from the collection of Coast Artillery officer Riley E. McGarraugh. This officer served two duty assignments in the Harbor Defenses of Manila Bay. He took hundreds of photos of the defense. This is a selection of some of the best. These are mostly gun battery […]
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Pacific Fortress, A History of the Seacoast Defenses of Hawaii is a revealing historical account of the U.S. Army’s coastal defenses of Oahu. This work provides a thorough account of both the seacoast and anti-aircraft branches of the Coast Artillery Corps in this important American Pacific base. It presents a detailed […]
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 […]
