Accession Number:
ADA499579
Title:
The Coast Artillery Journal. Volume 58, Number 2, February 1923
Descriptive Note:
Journal
Corporate Author:
COAST ARTILLERY TRAINING CENTER FORT MONROE VA
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1923-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
97.0
Abstract:
This issue of The Coast Artillery Journal contains the following articles Railways and Their Relations to National Defense, by Colonel Frederic A. Delano, late Transportation Corps, A.E.F. Coast Forts of Colonial Massachusetts, by Major Robert Arthur, C.A.C. G.P.Fs Use Indirect Fire at Naval Targets Extracts from the Report of Special Target Practice at Moving Targets with Indirect Fire -- 155-mm Filloux Guns, Battery A, 51st Artillery, by Captain Robert N. Mackin, Jr., C.A.C., Commanding Barrage Balloons, Translated from Ideas on Anti-Aircraft Defense by G. Fontaine, Chef dEscadron dArtillerie, Chief of the Bureau of Anti-Aircraft Defense of the Army Air Service Notes on Command, by Major Rodney H. Smith, C.A.C. and Night Firing Problems for an Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, by Major Oliver L. Spiller, C.A.C., Commanding 61st Artillery Battalion, Anti-Aircraft. This issue also contains an editorial on the Ku Klux Klan Coast Artillery Board notes solutions to employment of heavy artillery problems a history of the batteries of the 62d Artillery recent maneuvers of the 55th Artillery, C.A.C. anti-aircraft firing at targets towed by an airplane the Rhode Island Armory Batteries a new method of corrections for air density and temperature books recently cataloged at the Library, Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, VA and book reviews.
Descriptors:
- *RAIL TRANSPORTATION
- *ARMY
- *MASSACHUSETTS
- *ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNNERY
- *COASTAL REGIONS
- *ARTILLERY UNITS
- *FORTIFICATIONS
- NATIONAL DEFENSE
- PERIODICALS
- ARTILLERY FIRE
- INDIRECT FIRE
- BALLOONS
- AMERICAN INDIANS
- FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS
- MILITARY PUBLICATIONS
- MACHINE GUNS
- MOVING TARGETS
- NIGHT WARFARE
- NAVAL VESSELS
- MILITARY HISTORY
- ARTILLERY
Subject Categories:
- Humanities and History
- Surface Transportation and Equipment
- Military Forces and Organizations
- Logistics, Military Facilities and Supplies