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	200th Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment
		The 200th Coast Artillery (AA) (200 CA) arrived in the Philippines, in September of 1941.
		The 60th CA was equipped with 12 3-inch guns[?] (an older model with a vertical range of 8,200 m),.50-caliber machine guns[?], and 60-inch Sperry searchlights[?].
		This unit was not attached to the Philippine Coast Artillery Command.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/20/200th_Coast_Artillery_(AA)_Regiment.html (87 words)

	60th Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 60th Coast Artillery (AA) (60th CA), during the World War II era, was part of USAFFE's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, under the Philippine Coast Artillery Command.
		The 60th CA was equipped with 3-inch guns (an older model with a vertical range of 8,200 m), 37mm guns,.50-caliber machine guns, and 60-inch Sperry searchlights.
		One battery, with a platoon of searchlights, was located at Fort Wint, in Subic Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/60th_Coast_Artillery_(AA)_Regiment (132 words)

	Report on Operations and Material - Fort Drum - During the Bataan Corregidor Campaign, 8 December 1941 to 6 May 1942. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		For antiaircraft artillery there were two 3-inch mobile AA guns jacked down on spider mounts on the deck.
		Coast Artillery for manning the 60-inch antiaircraft searchlight; 4 Philippine Scouts from Fort Frank manning the B-2 station for that fort; medical detachment, one officer and one enlisted man; Ordinance personnel were civilian Ordinance machinists, numbering 3 or 4.
		The remaining defense was seacoast artillery, and it is a matter of record that almost all of the open seacoast batteries had either been knocked out or rendered ineffective with the outstanding exception of the 14-inch guns on Fort Drum guarding the south channel.
	www.concretebattleship.org /King_38.htm (6537 words)

	Artillery Regiments Page
		The unit was formed in March 1901 as the 10th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, consisting of D Bty in Umballa, India and E Bty in Kirkee, India, being renamed 3rd Brigade Royal Horse Artillery, in October 1906.
		The unit was formed in March 1901 as the 9th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery consisting of F Bty in Sialkot, India and J Bty in Bangalore, India, being renamed 4th Brigade Royal Horse Artillery in October 1906.
		In 1939 G Battery left to serve in 5th Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and DD Battery was formed to replace it as part of the re-organisation of the Royal Artillery after Dunkirk, in October 1941.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/orgartillery.htm (15080 words)

	Japanese Capture of the Philippines photos and text related to The Edge by First Lieutenant George Francis, USMC, ...
		With three airfields in their hands and no signs of a counterattack, the Japanese commanders decided to move the entire regiment down the west coast and join up with the main forces of the XIV Army that were to land on the beaches of Lingayen Gulf.
		The XLVIII Division, the IX Infantry Regiment, four artillery regiments with 75-mm, 105-mm, 150-mm guns and 150-mm howitzers, two tank regiments with 80/100 tanks, and a large number of service and special troops were put ashore on the north coast of Lingayen Gulf.
		The 60th was credited with shooting down at least 25 aircraft during this six-day period but the record does not tell the complete story.
	www.fourthmarinesband.com /photos_fall.htm (10849 words)

	AD0699-5 Lesson 1
		After the Coast and Field Artilleries were separated, the Artillery School was reorganized under the name of The Coast Artillery School as directed by General Orders No. 178, War Department, 28 August 1907 (Figure 5).
		The need for antiaircraft artillery was not completely forgotten, however, as evidenced by its inclusion in the battery officers course established in 1920 to teach tactics and techniques of antiaircraft and heavy artillery to company grade officers.
		In 1941, the M4 AA director was superseded by the M7 director (Figure 33), which was basically an improved version of the M4.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/policy/army/accp/ad0699/lesson1.htm (11545 words)

	Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chief of Coast Artillery Major General Joseph A. Green had recommended reassigning elements of the Harbor Defenses to anti-aircraft duty, but this proposal was rejected.
		The War Department had been intending to send three additional AA regiments and two brigade headquarters, however this was not accomplished before the Japanese invasion in December of 1941.
		With the exception of those areas covered by the 60th and 200th Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment, the Philippine islands were virtually defenseless against air attack.
	72.51.33.237 /cgi-bin/nph-surf.cgi/010110A/uggc/ra.jvxvcrqvn.bet/jvxv/Uneobe_Qrsrafrf_bs_Znavyn_naq_Fhovp_Onlf (254 words)

	Battery "E" 60th CA (AA)
		Battery, 2nd Battalion, 60th CA; and Battery C, 91st CA (PS)/ to fight as infantry, and to be used in establishing a new line.
		In addition, a system of strong revetments was constructed using salvaged lumber and galvanized iron sheeting to form the frameworks (3 feet thick and 12 to 15 feet high), bound by heavy wire and nails, and then filled with rock and dirt.
		Even this amount of overhead cover did not constitute a bomb-proof, however, for on December 29, 1941 during the heavy bombing of that day a heavy caliber bomb penetrated the dirt covering and enough of the concrete to crack the ceiling in one of the powder magazines.
	corregidor.org /ca/btty_erie/e.htm (6050 words)

	Fort Wint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was one of the locations where, under the National Defense Act of 1935, coastal artillery training was conducted.
		Stationed here was a battery of the 60th Coast Artillery (AA).
		This United States military article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Wint (98 words)

	U.S. Army Field Artillery Biography Page 5
		Artillery assignments have included III Corps Artillery, 2/2nd FA, 214th FA Bde, 1st/12th (Lance), 1st Armor Divarty, 1/94th FA, Berlin Bde, 75th FA Bde.
		General Charles P. Summerall: 1867-1955; USMA 1892; transferred to the 5th Artillery March 1893; 5th Artillery in the Philippines Insurrection 1899-1900; China Relief Expedition 1900; 106th Coast Artillery 1901; 3rd Field Artillery Battery, Ft.Myer 1903-05; Sr.
		Artillery Tactics Instructor, USMA; National Guard Division Artillery Commander 1911; 67th Artillery Brigade Commander; Commanding Officer 1st Artillery Brigade, France 1917; V Corps Commander 1918; Chief of Staff 1926-31; President of the Citadel 1931-53.
	www.angelfire.com /ca5/militaryhistoryus/biog5.html (4912 words)

	Purple Heart Austin War Stories - B. D. McKendree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He sailed for the Philippines on the Army transport, Republic, arrived on April 22, 1941, and was assigned to Battery I. He then went through basic training and settled into the routine of life in the unit.
		AA gunners shot down several planes in the days to come.
		Artillery shelling of the island began on April 9th, after the fall of Bataan, and B.D. was wounded during an especially heavy barrage on April 28th.
	www.purpleheartaustin.org /mckendree.htm (1586 words)

	Japanese Supremacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Antiaircraft defenses, especially in the Manila area, were strengthened, and one battery of the 60th Coast Artillery (AA) which had left Corregidor after dark on the 8th was in position on the morning of the 9th to furnish local protection for the port area, Nichols Field, and the oil storage and railroad yards.
		About five hundred men of the 200th Coast Artillery (AA) from Clark Field were dispatched to Manila during the day, supplied with equipment from the Philippine Ordnance Depot, and organized into a provisional antiaircraft regiment, later designated the 515th.
		The B-17s at Clark refueled and took off immediately after their arrival, remaining in the air until dark to avoid being caught on the ground as had the others the day before.
	c.1asphost.com /scanhead25/Japsupp.htm (2315 words)

	Battery "M" 60th CA (AA)
		Besides the harassing fire on roads and installations the AA gun batteries were fired upon whenever they began to fire at planes overhead.
		About April 28th an artillery spotting balloon promptly dubbed ‘Peeping Tom’ was raised near Limay on Bataan.
		They had borne up well indeed in their position of only being able to duck down in their gun pits as the bombers flew over at an altitude of from 25,000 to 30,000 feet often even beyond range of the AA guns.
	corregidor.org /ca/btty_mobile/m.htm (10102 words)

	THL July-August-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The defensive fortifications were obviously strong and their field of fire was certainly to their favor.
		Many of the remaining bomb and artillery shell craters are 40 to 50 feet across and 15 to 25 feet deep.
		From the appearance of this moon-scape 60 years later, it is unimaginable that anyone could have survived the force of such a barrage.
	www.thehoustonlawyer.com /aa_july05/aa_feature/page38/page38.htm (2532 words)

	Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
		There was no plan to concentrate on the west coast and no schedule for the movement of men and supplies to the Philippines.
		When stopped, they always had the same story to tell-how they were subjected to heavy mortar and artillery fire, bombed and strafed by enemy planes, threatened by hostile tanks usually headed straight for them, deserted by their officers, and left all alone to meet the oncoming Japanese.
		To its left was the 11th Division (PA), and along the southern coast of Lingayen Gulf was the 21st.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_06.htm (8043 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 3]
		To accomplish this reorganization, MacArthur said he needed an infantry regiment, a field artillery headquarters and headquarters battery, two field artillery battalions, a reconnaissance troop, and a military police platoon for the division.[15] The War Department agreed to provide these units and the staff began the detailed work necessary to select and ship them.
		The Scouts thus released could be used to bring the 91st and 92d Coast Artillery Regiments of the Harbor Defenses up to strength, retain several small units already in existence, and provide station complements for Forts McKinley and Stotsenburg.
		At least 240 were required to equip the artillery regiments of the ten reserve divisions and another 36 for filed artillery training centers.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-3.html (8157 words)

	US-Japan Dialogue on POWs
		We fought there on starvation rations, living partly off of what we could obtain from the jungle until Bataan was captured on April 9, 1942.
		The night of the capture, our Battery was returned to Corregidor to rejoin our 60th Battalion, where we continued the fight until the Philippines were captured, on May 6th, 1942.
		I was born in 1922 in a tiny village on an island off the coast of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
	www.us-japandialogueonpows.org /Graham.htm (1061 words)

	65TH ARTILLERY HISTORY
		Also on board was the 55th Regiment of coast Artillery drawn from the forts in the Boston area.
		Battery B of the 65th Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Amador, Canal Zone, established a record on November 27, 1925, by bringing down a towed sleeve target with the first round fired by the battery for the day.
		The unit is reflagged as the 3rd Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery and moved to Fort Hood and placed under 31st ADA Brigade..
	www.missilesofkeywest.bravepages.com /65thHISTORY.html (6564 words)

	Active Duty Military Army Navy Air Force Marines Coast Guard Reserves Veterans
		The mechanized divisions are also Soviet style units, similar in most respects to the armored divisions, except in the ratio of infantry to armor.
		The field artillery regiments each have 30 122mm 2S1 self-propelled artillery, while the air defense regiments attached to the armored divisions provide considerable cover with 30 ZSU-23-4 self-propelled guns and Batteries of SA-9 and SA-13 mobile surface-to-air missiles.
		There is considerable evidence that Sarin nerve agents and HD(mustard gas) are produced at facilities just north of Damascus and near Hama, while the deadly VX nerve agents are produced at a petrochemical complex just south of Homs.
	www.active-duty.com /MI_SyrianMilitaryForces.htm (3390 words)

	60th Coast Artillery (AA) Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The 60th Coast Artillery (AA) (60th CA) during the World War II era was part of USAFFE 's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays under the Philippine Coast Artillery Command.
		This anti-aircraft unit was to provide air defense Manila Bay and the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula.
		The 60th CA was equipped with guns (an older model with a vertical of 8 200 m) 37mm guns.50-caliber machine guns and Sperry searchlights.
	www.freeglossary.com /60th_Coast_Artillery_(AA)_Regiment (259 words)

	4/60th Arty - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Mang Yang and the An Khe passes were the two choke points on Highway 19 linking Qui Nhon on the coast with An Khe and Peiku to the west.
		Men of the 4th Battallion of the 60th Artillery man this Duster.
		These little kittens (4/60 AA) have lost their mittens-asbestos mittens for handling hot barrels and brass.
	www.mystae.com /reflections/vietnam/vnphotosc2.html (419 words)

	From Corregidor to the Philippines photos and text related to The Edge by First Lieutenant George Francis, USMC, Retired
		At 2240 the artillery shelling concentrated on the north shore beach defenses in the 1st Battalion sector.
		By 0900 the 4th Battalion was stalled and Williams sent to Colonel Howard for reinforcements and artillery support to resume the attack.
		He organized his platoon with volunteers from the Navy Communications Tunnel and Battery M, 60th Coast Artillery, to attack the Japanese from the west at the same time Williams was attacking from the east.
	www.lastchinaband.com /shanghai.htm (17854 words)

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		32 - THE FINNISH COAST ARTILLERY by Ove Enqvist
		The Coast Artillery and the New Coats from Bolling W. Smith.
		The Portsmouth Armory and the Coast Defenses of Portsmouth 97
	www.cdsg.org /content1.htm (7113 words)

	Here a picture of Clinton Edgar Maxson son of Harry Edward and Hazel Ruth
		Al McGrew explains: "The 60th Coast Artillery consisted of anti-aircraft batteries, searchlight batteries and Headquarters batteries.
		It had six AA gun batteries, B, C, D, F, G, and H. Four 50 cal. machine batteries, I, K, L and M. and two searchlight batteries, A and E. Each battery had about 100 to 120 men.
		Since AA guns shoot up, the walls of sandbags were 7 or 8 feet high.
	www.maxson2000.net /clintonmaxson.htm (1018 words)

	Colour Patches of Engineers (cont'd) and Signals AMF & AIF
		Additional confirmation of use is given by a HQ Newcastle A.A.S.L. Battalion memo, No. 0326 of 3.9.1942, advising that this patch had been allotted to all AASL units of Newcastle AA Group.
		Disbanded and absorbed by AA and Fortress Signals, New Guinea, in October 1943.
		No authority located although it is understood that use commenced with fortress signal, units in Western Australia immediately prior to the formation of AA and Frt Sigs.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-badges/patches/engrs.htm (5661 words)

	Internet Taps / Memorials
		JOHN was a member of the ARMY, 60 CAC AA HQ 2 BN.
		WILLIAM was a member of the ARMY, 60 CO (AA).
		CLYDE was a member of the ARMY, 60th Coast Artillery.
	www.combatvets.net /asp/tapspage.asp?DateList=Yes (1633 words)

	Leon Skabicki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Private First Class Skabicki was serving in the Philippine Islands at the outbreak of the war, with Headquarters Company of the 60th Coast Artillery Regiment at Fort Mills, on Corregidor.
		The AA shells lacked proper fuses, as did many of the 155mm artillery shells.
		One of these men was a soldier named Red Wells, private first class, from the 59th coast artillery.
	www.dvrbs.com /ccwd-ww2/camdenww2-LeonSkabicki.htm (3838 words)

	Internet Taps / Memorials
		Henry was a member of the ARMY, I Battery 59th Coastal Artillery Corps.
		WALTER was a member of the ARMY, BATTERY ERIE, 60 TH COAST ARTILLERY.
		Edgar was a member of the Army, 59th Coast Artiiery.
	www.combatvets.net /asp/tapspage.asp (1630 words)

	Robert G. Winston, WWII POW and Corregidor Survivor
		The Army first sent him to Angel Island, California, then he was assigned to Battery D, 60th Coast Artillery and deployed to the Philippines (then a territory of the United States).
		A young soldier named Bingham, took Winston's place on the AA gun, while he went to operate the height finder.
		It is dedicated to First Sergeant Dewey Brady, Battery D, 60th CA (AA), who was killed in action at Ft. Mills, Corregidor, Philippine Islands, on April 24th 1942 by enemy artillery fire from Bataan peninsula.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/ww2/winston.htm (1983 words)

	Fallen Son & Daughters Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In January of 1942 the Japanese started the attack on the Philippines.
		The men there endured 27 days of artillery bombardment.
		General Jonathan Wainwright surrendered to the Japanese on May 6, 1942.
	www.state.sd.us /military/VetAffairs/sdwwiimemorial/SubPages/profiles/Display.asp?P=1021 (785 words)

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