May 2014 - Coast Defense Study Group

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The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. — May 2014
Chairman’s Message
Norm Scarpulla
Over the last three months, we learned of the death of two longtime CDSG members, Bill Gaines and Phil Sims. Bill was one of
our earliest members and a frequent contributor to the Journal.
Because of his work in naval ship design, Phil had unique insight
into the relation of coast artillery and warship armament. We will
miss them both.
In February, we implemented our new website (same address:
CDSG.org). The photos on the homepage are stunning, and we
now have the ability to accept credit cards and PayPal for memberships, books, and clothing.
Our 2014 annual conference will be in San Diego and Los
Angeles this October. The details and signup are included with
this Newsletter. Please plan to attend to see the fortifications and
meet other members. Because of the need to reserve buses at San
Diego, and due to security at US Navy controlled sites, you need
to sign up early; don’t delay.
In March, we completed our financial audit, and the audit report and financial statement are included with this Newsletter. The
CDSG continues to be financially strong. However, the number of
individual memberships is down from 387 at the end of 2009 to
359 last year. We need to recruit new members. When you visit a
fort or a military event, be an ambassador for the CDSG. Wear a
CDSG shirt, hat, or patch. Talk to people about the organization
and point them to our website, CDSG.org. Can you recruit one
new member in 2014?
Each year, we elect one new director to replace the director who is
finishing his or her third year. Mike Fiorini’s term ends September
30. With this Newsletter, you will find the ballot for the election of
a new director. We have two fine candidates, Alex Hall and Alfred
Chiswell. Please mail in your vote by July 15.
Remember that this is a volunteer organization. We need members to write articles for the Journal and Newsletter. Even a short
report about a visit to a fort is useful. And we need site representatives. A site representative does not need to be the expert about
the fort or coast artillery, but rather he or she needs to maintain
contact with the site owner or manager and be the conduit for
communication both ways.
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CDSG Meeting and Tour Calendar
Please advise Terry McGovern of any additions
or changes at [email protected]
2014 CDSG Annual Conference
October 1 - 5, 2014
Los Angeles /San Diego HDs
Mike Fiorini, [email protected]
April 2015
Delaware River HD
Chris Zeeman, [email protected]
September 2016
Tampa Bay & Key West
Charles Bogart, [email protected]
Proposed CDSG Special Tour
June 2015
Panama Canal Zone
Terry McGovern, [email protected]
Proposed CDSG Special Tour
June 2016
Defenses of Switzerland
Terry McGovern, [email protected]
Other Meetings and Tours
July 2014
FORTE CULTURA Pilot Tour
Germany-Austria-Italy
Hans-Rudolf Neumann, [email protected]
August 2014
Czech Association for Military History Tour
Maginot Line in the Alps
Vladimir Kupka, [email protected]
San Diego and Los Angeles
October 1 – October 5, 2014
August 30 - September 6, 2014
ECCOFORT Reg. Association Tour
Pula & Croatia
Hans-Rudolf Neuman, [email protected]
Registration fee will be $195 which includes our bus in San Diego, handouts, site fees, lunches, the banquet on Friday night, and
other expenses. Extra banquet tickets will cost $45. A registration
form is attached to this newsletter or it can be printed from the
September 5 - 8, 2014
Fortress Study Group Annual Conference
East Anglia
Alistair Graham Kerr, [email protected]
CDSG 2014 Conference
The CDSG Newsletter, May 2014
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September 2014
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung Annual Meeting
Koln (Cologne)
Andreas Kupka, [email protected]
May 2015
Council on America's Military Past
New Orleans, Louisiana
Marylou Gjernes, [email protected]
September 18 - 22, 2014
Association Saint-Maurice d'Etudes Militaries Tour
Maginot Line & Verdun
Maurice Lovisa, [email protected]
August/September 2015
Verona/Italy
October 11, 2014
Stiching Menno van Coehoorn Tour
Zaltbommel, Netherlands
Frits van Horn, [email protected]
September 11-15, 2015
Association Saint-Maurice d'Etudes Militaries Tour
Hamburg, Germany
Marc Girard, [email protected]
October 17, 2014
International Fortress Council Annual Meeting
Portsmouth, UK
Luc Fellay, [email protected]
October 2015
Antwerp, Belgium
November 8, 2013
Czech Association for Military History Annual Meeting
Prague, Czech Republic
Vladimir Kupka, [email protected]
May 2016
Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour
Menorca/Majorca
TBA, [email protected]
February 2015
Punjab, India
Sept/Oct 2016
Edime, the Dardenelles, Istanbul
May 2015
Fortress Study Group Overseas Tour
South Portugal
Charles Blackwood, [email protected]
October 2016
Berlin, Germany
CDSG website at cdsg.org. Please register as soon as you can if
you are planning on attending and make your hotel reservations.
See our nation’s key defenses on southern California Coast. The
Point Loma Peninsula of San Diego contains Fort Rosecrans and
a number of WWII-era batteries. Coronado has the former Fort
Emory with its WWII-era 100 and 200-series batteries. Many
non-conference additional sites include the USS Midway museum,
Liberty Station, the former Naval Training Center, the Marine
Corps museum, and Cabrillo National Monument to name a few.
In Los Angeles see Fort MacArthur, Battery Osgood-Farley’s
restored BC station and power room, and the other batteries, fire
control stations, and Nike missile sites of the Upper Reservation,
White Point, and Long Point. Many additional sites can be seen
before or after the conference, including the USS Iowa and the
Queen Mary.
San Diego Fairfield Inn by Marriott
3900 Old Town Avenue
San Diego, CA 92110
Conference nights are October 1 and 2, 2014. Room rate is
$109 per night plus tax for a single king bed or twin queen beds.
Price is good for 3 days before and after the conference dates in
San Diego. Reservation phone # 888.236-2427 - reference CDSG
group rate. Concessions include: free shuttle to/from Lindberg
field during “normal business hours”, free on-site parking, free
meeting room for 40 and hospitality suite, free hot breakfast on
site.
Double Tree by Hilton
2800 Via Cabrillo Marina
San Pedro, CA 90731
Conference nights are October 3 and 4, 2014; Room rate is
$145 per night plus tax for single or double queen beds; Pricing is
good for 3 days before and after the conference dates in San Pedro.
Reservation phone # 800.222-8733 - reference group code “CDS.”
Food and Beverages service is available on site with nearby additional sites within walking distance. Site of annual dinner and
business meeting on Friday night. Free parking is provided for all
registered guests. Free meeting room.
Joe Janesic is my Co-Chairman – Thanks Joe.
Mike Fiorini
[email protected]
Hotel Information: we will be staying in San Diego two nights
and in San Pedro two nights:
Post-conference shuttles are available to both Los Angeles
International and Long Beach Airports for a reasonable fee.
Prompt reservations are encouraged, as both sites are popular
tourist destinations. In any case, August 15 will be the deadline
for room reservations and conference registration. Both sites
have many tourist attractions for men and women, bring your
lady and book your rooms early!
Tentative Schedule pending permission from the various
organizations:
Wednesday, October 1st: Afternoon check in with evening
organizational meeting and presentations.
Thursday, October 2nd: Subbase/Ft. Rosecrans sites, Cabrillo
National Park sites, West side of Pt. Loma Peninsula, evening
presentations.
Friday, October 3rd: Coronado, Ft. Emory, and Border Field
fire control stations in morning. Mid-day drive to San Pedro in
private cars. Annual dinner meeting in evening, presentations
Saturday, October 4th: Fort MacArthur: Battery 241, Battery
Leary-Merriam, Battery Barlow-Saxton, afternoon at Fort MacArthur Museum (Battery Osgood-Farley) and Battery Bunker;
evening presentations.
Sunday, October 5th:Outlying sites in the morning, White’s
Point, Sea Beach, 2 base-end stations, Long Point, Battery 240,
and Nike launch area.
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New Book
by CDSG member John Martini
CDSG member John Martini, retired NPS historian known
for his expertise on the San Francisco defenses, has written a
book that, while not about coast defense, may still be of interest
to our readers. Sutro’s Glass Palace: The Story of Sutro Baths, celebrates the historic Sutro Baths on San Francisco’s Pacific shore,
just south of Fort Miley. Opened in 1896, Sutro Baths was the
world’s largest indoor swimming pool establishment, with one
fresh and six salt-water pools, in addition to a museum and other
attractions. The book is beautifully illustrated with B&W and
color photographs, as well as excellent artwork. It is available from
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/sutro-s-glass-palace?keyword
=sutro%27s+glass+palace&store=book, for $20.36.
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topics: “The British Rifled Muzzle Loading Guns Period 18651879” by Charles Trollope and “The Solent Forts – the Preliminary
Arguments”(the Spithead forts) by Andrew Saunders.
The bulk of the issue is taken up by a facsimile reproduction of
the “1860 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Consider
the Defences of the United Kingdom,” an often cited reference
in British fortification history – a report which “draws the various structures being built at that time to rearm the coast of Great
Britain into a coherent scheme of defence.” This is a valuable piece
of reference material.
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Fort Casey Additions
Steven Kobylk
Fort Casey, WA, has been the grateful beneficiary of work
by several local organizations. These have added considerably
to our ability to interpret the batteries, and perhaps have also
awakened an interest in historic preservation in some of our
young people. The Oak Harbor High School shop class has made several
impressive additions to the displays at Fort Casey, WA. They
fabricated steel shot tongs, which have been installed in the Battery Worth shell hoist room. After some modification and adjustments, the tongs now work as originally designed. One 10-inch
practice projectile has been lifted and moved via the 1898 chain
hoist and overhead rail to the Taylor-Raymond hoist. The second
week in May the plan is to lift the projectile up the hoist to the
delivery table and unto a makeshift cart. Then, using the 1898
chain hoist with an elongated chain hoist, to lower the projectile
back down to the shell room using the original crane hoist. I will
be cleaning and repainting the shell shortly to ensure the color
band is over the center of gravity (lifting position).
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Fortress Study Group Publications
The latest issue of Fort, the international journal of fortification and military architecture from the Fortress Study Group,
has arrived. This issue is labeled Volume 30, 2002, part of the
collection of issues being published to make up for the years 2000
to 2003 when no issues were produced. This issue is dedicated
as a memorial to the late Andrew Saunders, one of the founding
members of the FSG.
As always, the issue has a number of key articles that may be of
interest to the members of the CDSG. First off there is a tribute
to the writings of Andrew Saunders by Gilbert Dowdall-Brown.
This is followed by two very good articles on British fortification
The class also fabricated breech-block pins for one of Fort
Casey’s 3-inch guns. It fits the breech perfectly. Five 155 mm
powder cans have been converted to 42-inch-long 6-inch cans,
and five more are to be completed by mid-June. The cans have
not yet been painted. The rammer and sponge for the 10-inch gun is near completion, as is the stave for the 3-inch gun. Several compromises
from the original plans were necessary, since cast parts are not
economically feasible at this time, so substitutes have been
made. The work is well done, and the general public should not
notice the difference. Construction of the time range board has been delayed with
just the board itself nearing completion. The board itself will be
assembled but the rest (T-square, etc) has been moved to next year.
Two projects involve the 1915 plotting rooms for Battery
Worth and Battery Moore. Ebey’s Landing National Historic
Reserve Field School has taken on restoring the exterior of Battery Moore’s plotting room this summer. Meanwhile, progress
continues on Battery Worth’s plotting room. Stucco work has
commenced and should take about two weeks to complete. One
window and the door are left to be installed. The new estimated
completion date is Memorial Day.
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Why Fort Emory was named Fort Emory
Peter Watry
CDSG is having its 2014 Annual Conference in San Diego
this October. We will be seeing some of the remains of Fort
Rosecrans and Fort Emory, but just as interesting is who Maj.
William Helmsley Emory was, and why he is was beloved in San
Diego for something he did in 1849.
Before 1940 the site of the future Fort Emory had only been
used for a large navy radio reception station, immediately north
of Imperial Beach along the ocean, about 10 miles south of San
Diego in an area known as Coronado Heights. As World War II
was approaching, the army decided to place some artillery there,
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and so they named it Coronado Heights Military Reservation.
But in 1942 the San Diego Chamber of Commerce heard about
it and asked the army to name it Fort Emory, in honor of Maj.
William Emory and what he did for San Diego 93 years before.
The War Department agreed, and published the decision in War
Department General Orders No. 67, December 14, 1942.
William H. Emory was an 1831 graduate of West Point, both
a military officer and an engineer. He first came to California in
1846 with Gen. Stephen Kearny’s Army of the West to help occupy California at the beginning of the Mexican-American War.
Kearny’s Army left Fort Leavenworth, KS, with 2,500 troops.
Along the way, General Kearny heard that other units had pretty
much occupied California, so he split units off to do this and that
chore, and by the time they arrived at a place called San Pasqual
in northern San Diego, Kearny had only 50 troopers at the spot
where the local Californios were waiting to do battle, and the
Californios and their horses were much fresher. Kearny had 17
killed, 18 wounded and only 15 unscathed. Lt. Emory was one
of the latter. Emory rose to general in the Civil War and had a
distinguished career.
By 1850 he was an outstanding member of the elite Army
Topographical Engineers. The government asked him to make
many maps, do important surveying, and so forth. At the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo spelled out the new Mexican-American border
in specifics of rivers, latitudes and longitudes. Then in 1849, a
commission was formed of American and Mexican surveyors to go
out and actually mark the border with 5 to 10 foot “monuments”
to mark the new border. This was no easy task because much of
the border was straight lines on a map, but horrendous mountains
in reality. Major Emory was the leader of the American team.
Picking up the border at the eastern end of Arizona, the original
border across Arizona was to be the Gila River, which runs from
east to west across Arizona. (The Arizona border was later moved
further south, but by purchase, not conquest.) The Gila River runs
west slightly below Phoenix until just west of Phoenix, where it
turns south to an area near Interstate 8, and then it bends and
goes directly west to a point flowing into the Colorado River at
the northern edge of Yuma. Then, the California border was to
be a straight line from the mouth of the Gila River to a point on
the Pacific shore “one marine league south of the southernmost
point of the Port of San Diego,” and the treaty said it was to be
according to a map drawn by Juan Pantoja in 1782. (A “marine
league” is generally considered to be a bit less than 3½ miles.)
So where is that “southernmost point” on a modern map? It
turns out to be about where the Chula Vista Marina is today. Then
“One marine league” (3½ miles) south of that is the entrance
to a navy auxiliary air field for helicopters on the southern side
of Imperial Beach. IT IS ANOTHER 2-3 MILES TO THE
MEXICAN BORDER. Major Emory set the monument a full
2-3 miles further south than it was supposed to be. Because
those monuments were considered to be part of the treaty, the
line cannot be changed without opening the entire treaty to renegotiations. That has never been done. Today, that monument
is exactly where Major Emory placed it 160 years ago.
Since the commission included Mexican surveyors, how did
Major Emory get away with it? I think his report tells us the
answer: “In this operation I looked for little or no aid from the
Mexican commission, for although composed of well educated
and scientific men, their instruments were radically defective. Our
determinations, after being re-computed by the Mexican commission, were received by them without correction” (italics added).
Today the monument is exactly where Major Emory placed it
160 years ago. Hopefully we will be able to visit it in October.
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Philip J. Sims 1949 - 2014
We regret to announce the death of long-time CDSG member
Philip (Phil) Sims, who was found dead of natural causes in his
home in Arlington, VA. Born April 26, 1949, in San Diego, CA,
Phil received a B.S. in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and an M.S.
in Naval Architecture from MIT.
Among his many accomplishments were updating the U.S.
Navy’s destroyer-cruiser early-stage design procedures and design
studies for the CGN 42, the reserve FFX, and the DDX (later
DDG 51) projects as well as being involved in the feasibility
and preliminary designs for the DDG 51-Class and many other
combatants. He became team leader on Surface Ship Concept
Formulation (CONFORM) studies of new ships such as a heavy
combatant and a survivable cruiser.
He was the lead naval architect for the Iowa-Class battleship
modernization and reactivation program and then its ship design
manager. Later he participated in the CV(X) and CVN(X) Cost
and Operational Effectiveness Analysis (COEA). He became the
navy’s expert on command ships, based on his numerous studies
over the decades. Upon his retirement from NAVSEA in 2009,
he joined the staff of CSC - Advanced Marine Center, conducting feasibility studies and preparing guidance documents on the
early-stage ship design process.
Phil was a member of the CDSG since 1988, and a frequent
contributor to our Journal. His articles, which often reflected
his interest and expertise in naval matters, contributed a unique
perspective to the study of coast defense.
He is survived by his only sister, Suzan Hudgens of Fort Worth,
TX. Memorial contributions can be sent to the attention of the
Development Office, Webb Institute, 298 Crescent Beach Road,
Glen Cove, NY 11542-1398. A note in the memo line should
say “In memory of Philip Sims ‘71.”
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William C. Gaines, Jr.
The CDSG notes with great sadness the passing of our most
faithful author, William “Bill” Gaines.
Bill was our most frequent author, contributing more than 80
articles over almost 30 years. His wide range of research enabled
him to produce unique histories of a number of harbor defenses
and unit histories of many coast artillery units. These works will
always remain a tribute to him and his work.
And to a real extent, the Coast Defense Journal is also a descendant of Bill's, a monument to the vital role he played in its
publication.
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Articles by William C. Gaines
published in the CDSG publications
Fifteenth Coast Artillery (H.D.) Regiment 1924-1944
The Temporary Harbor Defenses of Beaufort Inlet 1941
CDSG News, Volume 6, Number 4, November 1992
13th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment
CDSG Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2, May 1993
The Coastal and Harbor Defenses Of Galveston, Texas
CDSG Journal, Volume 7, Issue 3, August 1993
The Coastal and Harbor Defenses Of Key West
31st Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment
CDSG Journal, Volume 7, Issue 4, November 1993
The Coast Artillery at Pensacola Bay 1898-1946
Punchbowl Military Reservation
CDSG Journal, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 1994
Fifteenth Coast Artillery Regiment 1924-1944
Wiliwilinui Ridge Military Reservation
Sand Island Military Reservation
Fort Weaver, Oahu, Hawaii
Fort Barrette, Oahu, Hawaii
27th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Battalion
The Oahu Howitzers
The Temporary Harbor Defenses of Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1942-1944
The Forty-First Coast Artillery 1918-1944:
An Organizational History
The 14th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment,
an Organizational History
The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950,
Chapters I & II
The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950,
Chapters III-V
The Coastal and Harbor Defenses of the Delaware,
Chapters VI to X
The Maritime Defenses of the Delaware, 1771-1950: Chapters
XI - XIII
Fort Schuyler and the Defenses of the Eastern Approaches to
New York Harbor:
A Historic Resource Study
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Antiaircraft Defense of Oahu 1916-1945
Coast Defense Journal, Volume 15, Issue 2, May 2001
The 54th Coast Artillery Regiment (155 mm Gun) 1917-1944
Coast Defense Journal, Volume 15, Issue 4, November 2001
Temporary Harbor Defenses in the Southern Defense
Command: 1942-1944
Coast Defense Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, February 2002
Fort Totten and the Coastal Defenses of Eastern New York
Railway Artillery on Oahu, 1922-1944
Coast Defense Journal, Volume 16, Issue 3, August 2002
Coast Artillery in the Trinidad Base Command and Sector
1941-1946
The United States Coast Artillery Command on Aruba and
Curaçao in WW II
240 mm Howitzers on Oahu 1922-1944
Fort Screven: the Modern System of Defense at Savannah
1886-1946
Defending the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1803-1945
Joint Army and Navy Coast Defense Commands: 1927-1945
Glossary of Terms Related to Coast Artillery Operations in
World War II
A History of the Modern Coastal Defenses of Charleston,
South Carolina, Part I 1894-1939
A History of the Modern Coastal Defenses of Charleston,
South Carolina, Part II: The Harbor Defenses of Charleston in
World War II
155 mm Gun Employment and Emplacements on Oahu,
T.H., 1921-1945
The Sixteenth Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment
Antiaircraft Defenses in the Harbor Defenses of Manila and
Subic Bays 1921-1942
Camp Pendleton, Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the Provisional
Coast Artillery Brigade, 1940-1945
825th Coast Artillery Battery (Separate), 1942-1943
The World War II Temporary Harbor Defenses of Tampa
1942-1944
“Gypsy Artillery:” The 69th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft)
Regiment
Fort Darrell (Mechanic) and the Defenses of Charleston
Castle Pinckney and the Fortifications of Shute’s Folly Island,
Charleston Harbor
Second-System Fortifications at Savannah, Georgia:
1807-1825
The Defenses of Cumberland Sound, 1738-1900
Fort Johnson at Windmill Point, James Island,
Charleston Harbor
Confederate Defenses of Savannah 1861-1865
Defenses of Florida’s St. Johns River, 1898-1944
Fort Johnston, North Carolina, 1745-1865
A Military History of Diamond Head and Fort Ruger (Part I)
A Military History of Diamond Head and Fort Ruger (Part 2)
92nd Coast Artillery Regiment (Philippine Scouts)
Fort Wayne: Detroit’s Seacoast Fortification
28th Coast Artillery Battalion and the Defense of Saint Lucia
and Ascension Islands
The Inner Harbor Fortifications of New York
The Railway Artillery Reserve, A.E.F., 1917-1918
Corregidor, the Early Years
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The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946
Part II Modern Batteries
The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946,
Part III 1905-1939
The Seacoast Defenses of Galveston, Texas
The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946,
Part IV - 1940-1950
Fifty-Second Coast Artillery (Railway) Regiment
Fort Tilden, NY
Coast Artillery Organization: A Brief Overview
Battery F, 244th Coast Artillery, on Guadalcanal
265th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment
CDSG Special Tour to Norway
Defending the Narrows: The Harbor Defenses of Southern
New York Part I: The Muzzleloading Era, 1524-1890
Defending the Narrows: The Harbor Defenses of Southern
New York Part II, The Breechloading Era, 1890-1950
Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950,
Part I, Coast Artillery Regiments 1-196
The Coast Artillery on Shemya Island, 1943-1947
Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950,
Part II, Coast Artillery Regiments, OR and AUS
The Modern Coast Defenses of Mobile Bay 1865-1945
(Part 1)
(Part II)
(Part III)
A History of Fort DeRussy
The Seacoast Defenses of Portland, Maine 1605-1946
Part I: Portland’s Initial Defenses
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Norwegian and Atlantic Wall Defenses
Part II: Defenses of the Kristiansand
By Terrance McGovern
The CDSG special tour to the coast defenses of Norway took
place from June 8 to June 19, 2013, with 24 tour members. The
goal of this tour was to visit the world’s best collection of surviving coast artillery, especially the dozen “big guns” (greater than
280 mm) that remain, as well as other wonderful coast defense
sites that still have their smaller artillery. During World War II
Germany built (or converted existing Norwegian) over 280 coast
defense batteries mounting over 1,000 guns in Norway. Many of
these Atlantic Wall defenses were used by the Norwegian coast
defense service after the war and many were maintained into the
1990s. The Norwegians added modern 75 mm and 120 mm
batteries during the Cold War. The tour was able to visit over
50 examples of surviving coast artillery during the tour, many
in their original emplacements.
This is the ninth special tour that I have organized for the
CDSG and the most complex logistically, due to the remoteness
of the locations and the long distances between sites. The tour’s
ultimate success was due to the efforts of our local tour leaders,
Svein Wiiger Olsen, Vic Phillipson, Pål Johnsen, and Harald
Isachsen, who arranged for our access to the many sites and
guided us to the defenses. This tour would have never happened
without their efforts and we owe them many thanks for a great
tour. We also want to thank tour members Mike Fiorini, Alan
Fyson, Terry McGovern, Michel van Best, and Keith Estes, who
each undertook the responsibility to organize and drive one of
our five rental vehicles. They did a great job considering they have
never been to Norway before and they successfully kept track
of all their passengers during the long tour. Finally, we want to
thank Denise Agostino from Premiere Travel for arranging the
air, hotel, and rental vehicles for the group.
The November 2013 issue of the CDSG Newsletter contains
the tour report for Part I of the tour to the defenses of the
Oslofjord. Part II of our tour began on the morning of June
CDSG Special Tour to Norway – June 8th to 19th 2013
Kristiansand
Defenses - Places
visited by tour:
Odderoya Fort
Laksevika Fort
(Flekkeroy)
Battery Vara
Command
Bunker
(Flekkeroy)
Movik Fort
Sandviktoppen
NATO Command
Bunker
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12, 2013, (Day 5 of the tour) with our rental vehicles leaving
Tonsberg for the 230 km (about 3 hour) drive to visit the coast
defenses of Kristiansand, on the Skagerrak (the strait between
Norway and Denmark) at the mouth of the Otra River. It has a
spacious, ice-free harbor, protected by offshore islands, and is the
largest community of the Sørlandet region (current population is
about 160,000). It is an important seaport including shipyards
and a naval base, and as a result, several coast defense forts were
built by both the Norwegians and the Germans. The first site
we visited was Odderøya Fort, which is an island connected to
the mainland by bridges south of the city. The island creates a
natural division between the eastern and western port of Kristiansand as it rises about 200 meters above the city. The canal
Gravanekanalen separates Odderøya Fort from the city center, but
four bridges ensure that the island is easily accessible. This fort
has been the location for military fortifications from the time of
the Great Northern War (1700-21) to the end of the Cold War.
There has been military activity on Odderøya from 1667 until
1993, when the fortress was phased out. In much of this period
Odderøya served as a base and boot camp for the Norwegian
Coastal Artillery. The most notable event took place on April 9,
1940, against German aircraft and warships during the invasion
of Norway in Operation Weserübung. The site today is open
to the public with variety of civic organizations occupying the
former military buildings. Repurposing the fort continues today.
Our tour focused on defenses constructed in the early 20th century. This was a period of military build-up, not least due to the
tense relationship with Sweden. East Battery, Central Battery,
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and Western Battery stood ready in
the summer of 1903, each with two
Armstrong 15 cm L/47.5 cannons.
Primary armament was in Main
Battery (with two St. Chamond
21 cm cannons) and the Howitzer
Battery (with four St. Chamond 24
cm howitzers) which was fully operational late in the winter of 1904. Later
that same year, two 6.5 cm Cockerill
guns were mounted in the eastern
shore battery. During the WWI
several command positions for the
protection of fire control instruments
were constructed at each battery, and
the first air defense positions were
established.
It was with these old weapons that eventually Odderøya Fort
met the German invasion April 9, 1940. The fort fired upon the
approaching German warships, 30 rounds from the 21 cm guns,
60 rounds from 15 cm cannons, and 12 howitzer rounds. Several
German ships were hit, but only an unfortunate merchant vessel,
the M/S Seattle, that got in the middle of the battle was sunk. The
Germans bombarded the fortress, both with naval guns and from
the air. The fortress had 8 killed and 13 wounded in the fighting.
During the German occupation of the city, they established the
Artilleriegruppe Kristiansand headquarters at Odderøya Fort.
They moved the 21 cm and 15 cm guns in 1940-1941 to new
coastal forts on Flekkerøy and Eastern Randøy as Odderøya was
too far within the harbor for the range of its guns. In the postwar
era, Odderøya received a three-gun 10.5 cm training battery. After
some time, these guns were replaced with newer artillery guns of
the same caliber; 10.5 cm SKC/32. Two of these guns remain in
place today, along with a memorial to the events of 1940.
We were able to drive our vans right up to the top of the island
and park behind the main gun line around 11 am. The area is
open parkland today, so most of the emplacements have been
sealed. Tour members quickly dispersed to visit various batteries
and other structures as it begun to rain. A very wet group gathered
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for a field lunch before leaving the fort at 2 pm for the island
of Flekkerøy. This island is about 15 km from Odderøya via an
undersea tunnel once you drive through downtown Kristiansand.
Access to Laksevika Fort on Flekkerøy is complex, so we relied
on our local guide, Vic Phillipson, to show us the way through
the woods and marshes to the two single gun emplacements that
the German built (as MKB 3/502 Flekkeroy) to mount the two 21
cm St. Chamond L/45 guns they moved from Odderøya Fort in
1940. In addition, the fort had three positions for 40 mm Bofors,
four positions for 20 mm Flak, as well as four positions for 60
cm searchlights. When the Norwegians abandoned the fort in
1958 they removed these guns. Each emplacement is located on
high rocks that rise out of the forest so a series of cableways was
needed to transport ammunition from the wharf. The Germans
used a mixture of concrete and carved rock to build the fort’s
emplacements. After spending an hour exploring these slippery
emplacements in the rain, we drove about 3 km to the Battery
Vara Command Bunker. This multi-level fire direction bunker
(S-100 model) was built by the Germans to be the principal
position finding location for Battery Vara (as MKB 6/502) with
four 38 cm guns. The bunker is now used as a telecommunication
installation, surrounded by a fence and cemented closed. After
Signal Staton at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
West Battery (2 x 15cm L47.5 Armstrong)
at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
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Fire Control Station for Howitzer Battery (4 x 24cm L/16
St-Chamond) at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
10.5cm SKC/32 at Central Battery at Odderoya Fort,
Kristiansand
Emplacement #2 for Howitzer Battery (4 x 24cm L/16
St-Chamond) at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
Cableway to 21cm emplacement at Laksevika Fort,
Flekkerøy
Filled in Howitzer emplacement for memorial to German
attack in 1940 at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
Fire Control Station for Central Battery (2 x 15cm L/47.5
Armstrong) at Odderoya Fort, Kristiansand
German built emplacement for 21cm gun at Laksevika
Fort, Flekkerøy
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a brief visit, the group head back the 14 km to Kristiansand to
check into Scandic Kristiansand Hotel for the next two nights.
Battery Vara Secondary Fire Control Bunker
at Movik Fort
Battery Vara Fire Control and Command Bunker on
Flekkerøy
Day 6 began with a hotel breakfast and 10 km drive to Movik,
which was the site of Battery Vara (as MAB 6./502 Vara) during
World War II. After the war, the Norwegians named it Møvik
Fort. The fort was constructed between 1941 and 1944 by the
German navy to mount four 38 cm/52 SK C/34 guns in single
S-169 emplacements on center-pintle mounts (C/39) with splinter shields. Together with four other coastal batteries, it formed
the Kristiansand Artillery Group. Together with its sister battery
at Hanstholm in Denmark (roughly 116 km away), Møvik Fort
was built to obstruct Allied naval forces by blocking the Skagerrak
Strait and the seaways to Eastern Norway, as well as the access
to the Kattegatt Strait leading to the Baltic Sea. Only a gap of
10 nautical miles in the Skagerrak could not be covered by the
guns of these batteries. This gap was therefore mined to stop ships
from avoiding the batteries’ fields of fire.
Construction at Møvik commenced in the spring of 1941. At
the initial stage, the work force was comprised of 750 Norwegians,
350 Danes, and 300 Germans. From early 1943, 200 Russian
prisoners-of-war were also used, and they remained until the
end of the war in 1945. As construction proceeded and guns
were completed, the battery crew of 600 Germans arrived (450
sailors to man the guns and 150 soldiers for close-in defense).
Trial rounds were fired from Cannon #2 and #3 on March 12,
1942, and from Cannon #4 in November of the same year. By
then, the emplacement for Cannon #1 had been completed, but
the gun itself had not yet been delivered. It was not until summer
1944 that work on Emplacement #1 was taken up again, but
now as a casemated emplacement to protect the gun from aerial
attack. The cannon well was covered with a casemate with a 4.5
meter-thick roof and 3.8 meter-thick walls, built in 10 weeks.
Then the process of delivering the cannon parts was started. By
the beginning of 1945, all the parts were in place, except for the
barrel, which was the heaviest single part of the cannon (19.76
meters long and 110 tons). It was shipped on the Porto Alegre
from Germany in February 1945, but on the night of February
22 it was sunk in the Kattegatt by a British air attack. In addition
to the main cannon, there were 16 smaller guns, as well as many
bunkers, defense posts, tunnels, barracks, and a 2.6 km railway
network to transport ammunition from the two large bunkers
CDSG members visit Battery Vara Secondary Fire Control
Bunker at Movik Fort
Emplacement #2 with surviving 38cm SKC/34 gun at
Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Main Hall of Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at
approximately 1 km to the rear of the cannons. For a few years
after the war, Møvik Fort was an operating Norwegian fortress.
In 1953 it became part of Kristiansand fortress. On April 20,
1959, the fort was closed and in 1962 Cannons #3 and #4, as well
as the existing parts of Cannon #1, were scrapped. Fortunately,
Cannon #2 was saved, and is today the only remaining example
of this type. After extensive renovation in the late 1980s and early
1990s by local armed forces and the Foundation Kristiansand
Cannon Museum Møvik, a part of the fort was opened to the
public in 1993. The Kristiansand Cannon museum is run today
by the Foundation Kristiansand Cannon Museum Møvik and administered by the Nasjonale Festningsverk (National Fortresses).
Our group gathered in the museum parking lot with our
cameras and field lunches in hand, as we were scheduled to
spend most of the day exploring Battery Vara. Our local guide,
Vic Phillipson, started our guided tour at the battery’s secondary fire control position. The challenge of a foggy day mixed
with moss-covered rocks resulted in a number of slip and falls.
Retreating to the safety of Cannon #2’s S-169 bunker we visited
the museum in the ammunition magazines of the emplacement.
We also visited the power rooms and ammunition handling area
before walking to the topside of the emplacement to see the 38
cm gun and its mount. By this time it was noon, so we picnicked
next to the emplacement before moving on to a storage building
built by the museum to house its larger artifacts, ranging from an
Shell Room of Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at
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German 88 mm AA gun to a small railway unit for the narrowgauge line that served the fort. We next visited the huge casemate
constructed over Emplacement #1, very similar to the German
batteries along the English Channel in France. We then visited
one of the S-174 reserve ammunition bunkers before exploring
the emplacements for Cannons #4 and #3, which are abandoned.
We also visited several 4 cm flak positions as well as several MG
casemates and shelters, including a few Tobruk positions. Our
last stop was a communication/generator bunker before one last
visit with the wonderful 38 cm gun.
Powder Room of Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2
at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Shell Wagon waiting for projectile at flash proof doors
at Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
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Shell Room of Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at
Loading table with flash-proof doors behind at Kannon
Museum in Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Fire Control computer at Kannon Museum in
Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Power Room of Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at
Chris Bristow purchases some large souvenirs at the
Kannon Museum in Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
38cm SKC/34 gun and mount in Emplacement #2 at
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38cm gun showing breech and block at Emplacement
#2 at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Central Pintle in Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara, Movik
Fort
38cm gun showing breech and block at Emplacement
Inside 38cm mount with shell lift, loading table, and air
ram for Emplacement #2 at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Large artifact on display at the Kannon Museum at
CSDG watch loading drill for 38cm gun in Emplacement
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Tank turret used in defense of Kristiansand’s airport
during WWII at the Kannon Museum at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Huge casemate for Emplacement #1 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Rear of casemate for Emplacement #1 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Entrance to reserve ammunition bunker at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Inside the casemate for Emplacement #1 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Entrance to bunker for Emplacement #4 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
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Back in our vans, we now traveled a few kilometers to an
adjunct property where the abandoned underground command
complex called Sandviktoppen is located. Sandviktoppen was
NATO’s hardened command and control bunker for all of Southern Norway. We parked our vans at the bottom of a hillside, at
the former barracks and motor pool garage. We hiked up the road
that led to a camouflaged entrance to a tunnel that led to heavy
blast doors of NATO’s Atlantic North Command and Control
Bunker, built during the Cold War. This NBC-proof (nuclear,
biological, chemical) facility was in service until 1992. After
being decommissioned, the bunker has been locked and sealed
awaiting a decision about its future use, and is now owned by
the local government. We explored the operations theatre, map
room, command center, troop quarters, and all the engineering
spaces, which are still in relatively good condition, although with
limited lighting. A few hardy tour members climbed the some
300 steps in the service tunnel to the radar and signals installation above the complex. Returning to our vans we made our way
back to our hotel in Kristiansand.
This completed our tour of the defenses of the Kristiansand.
Part three of the tour had us flying to Trondheim and its U-boat
bunkers from Kristiansand. We visited the triple 28 cm naval
turret from Gneisenau at Orland and other defenses of Trondheim Fjord over a three-day period. Part Four had us flying on
to the Harstad/Narvik area, where we visited several fascinating
batteries over two days: the main attraction was the four 40.6 cm
guns at Battery Trondenes. From Harstad we flew back to Oslo
and ended the tour. Due to the length of the tour and resulting
long tour report, it will be published in the CDSG Newsletter
over several issues.
Emplacement #4 without 38cm SKC/34 gun at Battery
Vara, Movik Fort
4 cm Flak position at Battery Vara, Movik Fort
Entrance to bunker for Emplacement #3 at Battery Vara,
Movik Fort
Entrance to NATO Command and Control Complex at
Sandviktoppen, Movik
Control post at NATO Command and Control Complex
at Sandviktoppen, Movik
Operations theatre at NATO Command and Control
Complex at Sandviktoppen, Movik
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16-Inch Guns - Last Call
Terrance McGovern
Still looking for good homes for five 16-inch/50 barrels
and time is running out
Barrels need new homes by November 1 or they may be
scrapped
In June 2011, the Coast Defense Study Group (www.CDSG.
org) was asked to help find safe homes for eight historic 16inch/50 Mark 7 navy gun barrels located at St. Juliens Creek
Naval Annex in Chesapeake, VA, or the barrels would cut into
eight-foot sections and scrapped. The US Navy is purging all the
Iowa-class materials in their inventory and as the navy felt that
they had allowed plenty of time for qualified organizations to
claim these barrels, it was now time to liquidate them (as they
did for 14 similar barrels in storage at Hawthorne, NV, in June
2011). The CDSG was able to convince the navy to give us more
time to find organizations that would be able to take care of a
16-inch/50 barrel and pay for the cost of moving a 70-foot object
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weighing about 120 tons. As these barrels are similar to the ones
that were once in WWII 16-inch coast defense batteries, we approached the current owners of such sites to see if they would
be interested in preserving and interpreting a barrel at their site.
As these barrels also saw wartime service during World War II
and Korea we reached out to those who would have interest in
displaying a barrel from such famous ships as USS Missouri, USS
Iowa, and USS New Jersey. So far we were able to inspire three
groups to take up the challenge of raising funds and organizing
transportation. It was great accomplishment to have three barrels
leave St. Juliens and make their way to new homes. One barrel
went to the Cape Henlopen, DE, State Park (location of former
Battery Smith at Fort Miles); the second went to the US Fish
and Wildlife Refuge at Cape Charles, VA, (location of the former
Battery Winslow at Fort John Custis); while the third barrel was
taken by rail to the State Capitol in Arizona to become part of
their World War II memorial (where is joined by a 14-inch barrel
off USS Arizona).
The task of finding good homes for the remaining five barrels
(four off USS New Jersey and one off USS Iowa) is even more difficult, as many of most likely candidates have already declined to
take on the financial and organizational effort to move a barrel to
their site. The navy has proposed a November 1, 2014, deadline
for this effort, after which the five barrels will offered for sale as
scrap. Currently the best prospects for these barrels are:
The Monmouth County Park System, NJ, has submitted a
formal plan to move one of USS New Jersey’s barrels to the former
Battery Lewis as part of their interpretive plan (see the CDSG
Funds item on helping them raise funds). They hope to move
a barrel this fall.
The USS Iowa Association wants to move the barrel from USS
Iowa to the USS Iowa Memorial (dedicated to the 47 sailors that
died during a turret explosion in 1989) on the Norfolk Naval
Station. While they have official approval from the navy, they
have just begun their fundraising effort.
We are trying to develop with the State of Virginia a Cape
Henry Lighthouse/First Landing Memorial at Cape Henry, VA,
(location of the former Battery Ketchum at Fort Story), but we
need local support.
A small civic group in Oklahoma City has expressed interest
in a battleship barrel for their riverfront redevelopment plans,
but they would really like a 14-inch barrel like that of the USS
Oklahoma.
There is a possibility that a US Air Force fuse testing project
in Florida will require several barrels, but this just an interesting
idea with no funding as yet.
We need your help in finding organizations that will take a
barrel and give it a good home and we need to do it now. Please
let Terry McGovern at 703/934-3661 or [email protected]
know if you have a good home in mind for any of these 16inch/50 barrels.
Note: We are also looking for a good home are four 8-inch/55
Mark 14 guns. These barrels are located in Suffield, Alberta,
Canada, where they were used in experimental testing. These last
remaining 8”/55 Mk 14 guns are going to be scrapped soon if
nobody takes an interest in them, as the Canadian Armed Forces
has an active project to dispose of them. These guns armed two
early aircraft carriers as well as many of the 1920s to 1930s treaty
cruisers. They are about 33 feet long and weigh about 30 tons.
The photographs below show the five remaining 16-inch/50
Mark 7 barrels at St. Juliens Creek Naval Annex, waiting for a
new home.
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CDSG T-Shirts Are Available Again!
Updated Design and New T-Shirt Color - Black
Terrance McGovern
The CDSG is happy to announce that our T-shirt supply has
been refreshed with over 200 shirts in varying size and colors.
We have updated the design on the back of the shirt and add a
new color – Black (is black a color?) with white ink. We have
stocked primarily large sizes (L, XL, XXL, XXXL) because that is
where the demand is, but we do have some mediums and smalls.
Colors beside black are navy blue with yellow ink, fire engine red
with white ink, and army khaki with black ink. Please order your
t-shirts today and help raise awareness of the CDSG.
Please send your orders to Terry McGovern at 1700 Oak Lane,
McLean, VA 22101, with cash or check (US$18 domestic or
US$26 foreign) or you can order on-line at CDSG.org using
your credit card. Below is the back side of our updated t-shirt.
The front remains the same.
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County Park System, NJ, to help them restore Battery Lewis and
transport a 16-inch/50 barrel from St. Julien Creek Naval Annex
to the battery. Since February 2014, members have donated $250
towards this project but we need more donations from you to
reach the $1,500 challenge goal. Over the past two years the
CDSG Fund has donated funds from our members to help several
16-inch/50 barrels find good homes. We provided $3,000 to the
Fort Miles Historical Association to help them to move a barrel
to Cape Henlopen, DE. We also provided $3,000 to help move
a barrel to the USFWS at Cape Charles, VA. We want to do the
same for The Friends of the Parks for the Monmouth County Park
System. Having a 16-inch barrel in the gun casemate will allow
visitors a better understanding of the function of these massive
structures. Your donation can make this happen. Remember your
gift to the CDSG Fund is tax-deductible for federal tax purposes
and 100% of your gift will go to the Battery Lewis 16-inch/50
Project (please indicate this purpose on your check). Please send
your check made payable to the CDSG Fund as soon as possible,
as the CDSG Fund will match your gift, dollar for dollar, up to
$1,500. Your check should be mailed to Sam Stokes at P.O. Box
807, Bogeda Bay, CA 94923-0807 USA. You can also donate
via the CDSG website at www.cdsg.org.
Battery Lewis
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Future CDSG Tours to the Defenses of
Panama and Switzerland
Terrance McGovern
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Battery Lewis, Hartshorne Woods Park
Challenge Update: Member Donations Needed
for 16-inch/50 and Battery Lewis
Monmouth County Park System, New Jersey
Terrance McGovern, CDSG Fund Trustee
The CDSG Fund has challenged our membership to match its
$1,500 donation to The Friends of the Parks for the Monmouth
Paolo Sanfilippo and Terry McGovern are discussing a possible
CDSG special tour to the defenses of the Panama Canal for
2015. The first and last CDSG tour to Panama was in 1993, so
it has been 20 years since the CDSG has toured these defenses.
Recently, several CDSG members returned from a private tour
of the defenses of Panama with Paolo and reported back on the
details of their tour (please see Michel van Best’s report on the
CDSG website). While many coast defense sites have suffered
from economic development in the last 20 years, many batteries remain and are accessible. Paolo has developed this tentative
schedule below (subject to change) for a 10-day tour to the
defenses of Panama.
Please advise Terry McGovern at [email protected] of your
interest in attending a 10-day special tour to Panama. Based on
your response by the end of the year, we will begin the detailed
planning process.
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Chain mail helps protect this 15.5 cm casemate at
Festung Magletsch, Sargans
Please advise Terry McGovern at [email protected] of your
interest in attending a 10-day special tour to Switzerland. Based
on your response, by the end of the year we will begin the detailed
planning process.
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CDSG Logo Hats, Shirts & Patches
Swiss cows man 10.5 cm turret at
Festung Furggels, Sargans
Pascal Bruchez and Maurice Lovisa of the ASMEM (Association St-Maurice d’Etudes Militaires), the primary fortification
study group in Switzerland (similar to the CDSG) have invited us
to visit the fortifications of Switzerland for a week in 2016. The
focus of the tour will be the National Redoubt, encompassing a
widely distributed set of fortifications on a general east-west line
through the Alps, centering on three major fortress complexes,
Fortresses St. Maurice, St. Gotthard, and Sargans. These fortresses
primarily defended the alpine crossings between Germany and
Italy. We will also visit a few defense sites of the Border Line, the
advance line of defenses near the borders; and Army Position,
somewhat farther back. These two defense lines were designed
to protect the Swiss heartland (the industrialized and populated
heart of Switzerland)
The CDSG is pleased to offer custom-made hats, T-shirts and
patches to our membership. Wearing these hats, T-shirts and
patches are a great way to make others aware of the CDSG and
its goals. It is also an excellent way to promote new memberships in the CDSG.
The CDSG patches have been available for several years. Designed especially for the CDSG, these quality patches combine
the Coast Artillery Corps and the Corps of Engineers symbols
to reflect their involvement in U.S. coastal defenses. This logo
is now on hats and a set of T-shirts which are great for showing
the CDSG “flag.”
To order your hat, T-shirt or patch, please complete the order
form below and send it along with your check (made out to
CDSG, Inc.) to Terry McGovern at 1700 Oak Lane, McLean,
VA 22101-3326 USA (e-mail: [email protected]).
CDSG hats, T-shirts and patches ordering information
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Red T-Shirt with white ink:
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Kaki T-Shirt with black ink:
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Hats: ______ times $ _____
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(domestic $20/overseas $25) each
Be sure to include your name and shipping address.
You can also order online at http://cdsg.org/shopping/
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The CDSG Newsletter is published quarterly by the Coast Defense
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Submission deadlines are the first of the month in February, May, August,
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Upcoming Conference and Tour Committees
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and foreign. An updated copy can be purchased for $10 by sending the
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cover a range of historical documents related to seacoast defenses, most are
copied from the National Archives. Included are PDFs of annual reports
of the chief of coast artillery and chief of engineers; various board proceedings and reports; army directories; text books; tables of organization
and equipment; WWII command histories; drill, field, training manuals
and regulations; ordnance department documents; ordnance tables and
compilations; and ordnance gun and carriage cards.
Harbor Defense Documents. These PDF documents form the basis of
the Conference and Special Tour Handouts that have been held at harbor
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building records; and aerial photos taken by the signal corps 1920-40.
These collections are available as PDFs on DVD, the size of the collection varies from harbor to harbor. Please visit cdsg.org for more details.
Past meetings include: Manila Bay, PI, 1991; Oahu, Hawaii 1991; Los
Angeles/San Diego 1992; Canal Zone, Panama 1993; Delaware River
1996; New York 1997; Tampa/Key West 1998; Columbia River 1999;
Chesapeake Bay 2000; Portsmouth/North Boston 2001; Mississippi River
2002; Long Island Sound 2003; Charleston/Savannah 2004; Portland
2005; San Francisco 2006; Boston 2007; Galveston 2008; Baltimore/
Washington 2009; Puget Sound 2010; Wilmington, 2010; Narragansett
Bay/New Bedford 2011; Great Lakes 2012, Pensacola and Mobile 2013.
Please visit cdsg.org for a complete listing of electronic documents.
CSDG Press Books ($ domestic / $ international)
Notes on Seacoast Fortification Construction, by Col. Eben E. Winslow (GPO,
1920), hard cover reprint, with 29 plates included in a separate paperback.
Both items: $35 / $45
Seacoast Artillery Weapons (Army Technical Manual 4-210, 13 Oct. 1944),
hard cover reprint. $25 / $35
The Service of Coast Artillery, by F. Hines and F.W. Ward (1910),
hardcover reprint $40 / $60
Permanent Fortifications and Sea-Coast Defenses, Congressional Report No. 62,
U.S. House of Rep. (1862), hardcover reprint $30 / $45
American Seacoast Matériel, Ordnance Dept. Doc. #2042, (1922),
Hardcover reprint $45 / $65
American Seacoast Defenses: A Reference Guide, Second Edition,
edited by Mark Berhow (2004), softcover $45 / $80
The Endicott and Taft Reports, reprint of original reports of 1886, 1905, 1915,
hardcover, with plates included in a separate paperback $45/ $80
Artillerists and Engineers, the Beginnings of American Seacoast Fortications, 17941815, by Arthur P. Wade (2010) $25/ $40
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May 2014 - Coast Defense Study Group

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