CDSG DOWNLOADS
New two-part study on field fortifications at Civil War battlefields in central Virginia. Some might be interested in this study.
CVBT History Wire, Field Fortifications on Central Virginia’s Battlefields – Part II
CDSG Membership Materials
These are PDF files of the CDSG membership brochures 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 is appreciated.
- CDSG Membership Brochure
- CDSG Membership Brochure tri-fold version
- CDSG Membership Brochure Battery Townsley Edition
- CDSG Membership Brochure Fort Mott Edition
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 1: 12-inch disappearing gun drawing
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 2: “Lacey, Oozlefinch, & Crew”
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 3: “Grid Iron Club”
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 4: Battery Chamberlin
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 5: 14 inch DC battery
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 6: Fort Warren 3rd
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 7: Fort Taber 3rd
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 8: 6-inch WWII
- CDSG Recruiting Poster 9: WWII Tower
- CDSG ByLaws, Articles of Incorporation, Code of Conduct 2018
- CDSG Meeting Attendance Roster 2024
- Current CDSG Newsletters
- Sample Coast Defense Journal
- Coast Defense Journal Article Submission Instructions
CDSG Special Tours: After Action Reports from the CDSG Newsletter:
Extensively illustrated coverage of all the artillery sites visited on these special tours collected into a single PDF
- CDSG Special Tour to Norway Defenses (2013)
- CDSG Special Tour to Switzerland Defenses (2019)
- CDSG Special Tour to the Singapore Defenses (2020)
- CDSG Special Tour to the Defenses in Poland (2023)
Lists and other CDSG downloads
- First, Second, and Third System fort list
- List of Forts and Batteries 1890-1945 (revised September 2024)
- List of Surviving American Seacoast Weapons (still more revisions—July 2024)
- List of Army Technical Manual titles (TMs)
- List of Army Field Manual titles (FMs)
- List of Army Ordnance Department Document titles (ODDs)
- Coast Artillery 1920s era harbor defense map downloads (Directory page)
- PDF documents on the Coast Artillery Corps (Directory page)
- Bibliography of CDSG publications and other books on forts and harbor defense locations
- Panama Canal Zone Site Visit March 16-27, 2013
Fixed Seacoast Artillery Book
Jack Buckmeir’s book “Coast Artillery Technical Manual, Fixed Seacoast Artillery, Ordnance and Ammuntion, Manufacturing, Installation, Operation and Maintenance” is a nice short introduction to US modern era seacoast artillery. Download a PDF of the Buckmeir Book here.
Seacoast Defense Fortification Preservation Manual Downloads
- Historic Preservation Fortification Handbook (Washington State 2003
- Seacoast Fortifications Preservation Manual (Golden Gate Nat. Rec. Area, 1999)
- Stabilization and Preservation of DoD-owned Military Fortifications (DOD Legacy Resource Management Program PROJECT 05-239, 2006)
National Park Service History Studies
Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, CA.
https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/historyculture/publications.htm
A excellent collection of historic studies are on this NPS web page. Studies include Fort Point, The Presidio of San Francisco, Fort Mason, and Forts Baker, Barry and Cronkhite.
Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, CA
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Pensacola, FL
Gateway National Recreation Area, New York, NY
- Historic Resource Study: A History of Fort Wadsworth
- Historic Resource Study: The Sandy Hook Proving Ground
- Historic Resource Study: Fort Hancock 1895-1948
- Historic Resource Study: Fort Hancock 1948-1974
Coast Defense Study Group on-line presentations presented on November 7, 2020
Click Links to view! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwferAroOchSrim6Z7EPKag
- “Third System Defenses of New Orleans” by John Weaver
- Â “US Army Chiefs of the Coast Artillery” by Charles Bogart
- Â “History of Fort Fremont on Port Royal Sound” by Ted Panayotoff
- Â “Update on Restoration Efforts at Fort Casey” by Steve Kobylk
Fortress Study Group on-line presentations of interest to the members of the CDSG
Click Links to view! Thanks to the FSG and the authors for sharing!
- 10 June 2020 “Defending against British Canada – The 3rd system forts of Maine” by John Weaver https://youtu.be/B4rBv0tP8Bs
- 5 August 2020 “The origins of the American Third System of Fortification” by John Weaver https://youtu.be/gRV27QMhDfw
- 9 September 2020 “Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island – US Fortification School” by John Weaver  https://youtu.be/iPmOZNNAt-k
- 19 August 2020 “The Fortifications of San Francisco” by Geoff Snowden https://youtu.be/Ed18MRKliTM
- 23 September 2020 “With the CDSG to Galicia and Cadiz” by Charles Blackwood https://youtu.be/JJDPtPQttmQ
- 7 October 2020 “With the CDSG to Tarifa and Gibraltar” by Charles Blackwood https://youtu.be/6t1OGHiTygE
- Presentation 41. “Norway with the CDSG Part 1” by Charles Blackwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6ykuAPsc28
- Presentation 51. “Norway with the CDSG Part 1” by Charles Blackwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=640E65hImcM
- Presentation 53. “Norway with the CDSG Part 1” by Charles Blackwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYNNhwmRCTE
- Presentation 59. “The American Defenses of the Panama Canal” by Terry McGovern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXkUzgwN9F0
PDF Download files
- US Army Owned, Sponsored and Leased Facilities, 31 Dec 1945
- Coast Artillery Power Plants (revised and Illustrated 1993 Journal article)
- Manual for GE 25 Kw generator (Instruction book)
- Scan of original print of the 1915 War Department Board of Review report
- Experimental Firing at Type Seacoast Emplacement, Fort Morgan, AL, March 13 & 14, 1916 38 MB
- Test Firing Against Obsolete Battleship at Pensacola, 1920
- Damage Tables Seacost Artillery Against Naval Vessels” 1942 (3.5 MB)
- Special Corregidor photo collection ZIP file download Click link to go to photo download page
- Nike Air Defense Manuals (provided by Cory Newman)
- FM 44-8, Army Air Defense Command Posts, 1962, w/ change 1, 1964 (75 pp)
- FM 44-10, Army Air Defense Fire Distribution Center AN-FSG-1(Missile Master), Feb 1963, 110 pp
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