Antiaircraft Journal, Volume LXXXXIII, No. 2, March-April, 1950
Washington DC: United States Coast Artillery Association, 1950. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 64 pages, plus covers. Illus. Cover wear and erasure. This Journal was founded in 1892 as The Journal of the United States Artillery and was published as such until 1922. From 1922 until 1948 it was published as the Coast Artillery Journal. The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States between 1901 and 1950. The CAC also operated heavy and railway artillery during World War I. In 1907, Congress split the Field Artillery and Coast Artillery into separate branches, creating a separate Coast Artillery Corps (CAC), and authorizing an increase in the Coast Artillery Corps to 170 companies. National Guard coast artillery units were also formed by the states to attempt to bring the CAC up to strength in wartime. When WWII ended it was decided that few gun defenses were needed, and by 1948 almost all of the seacoast defenses had been scrapped. The Coast Artillery was disestablished in 1950. From 1948 until 1954 there were 34 bi-monthly issues published. In this issue is an article on: Analysis of Automatic Weapons Lead Requirements by Harold Broudy; Guided Missiles Regiment at Fort Bliss; Our Antiaircraft Has A Bright Future by Donald J. Bailey; Test Yourself on RADAR by Leonard M. Orman; Reconnaissance Selection and Occupation of Position for Field Artillery by Edward S. Berry; The ROTC from A to Z by E. W. Timberlake; AAA Protection of a River Crossing--Remagen by C. G. Patterson; Midnight Oil for Redleg Lamps by Dale E. Means and Raymond J. Wilson; Army Rocket Recovered at White Sands; A Plan for the Training of Unassigned Reservists by John M. King; The Fast Submarine by Ian Bremmer; Our Banner Still Waived by Jerome Kearful ()War of 1812); and AAA at the Bridge by R. L. Dineley. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Antiaircraft Artillery, AAA, Anti-Aircraft, Automatic Weapons; Guided Missiles; Radar; Field Artillery, River Crossing, Remagen; Redleg Lamps; Army Rocket, White Sands, Fast Submarine; 161st Gun Battalion; Bridge Construction, New Guinea, Erap River
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