Snag Your Copy The Coast Artillery Corps Of The United States Army Crafted By The Infantry Journal Issued As Manuscript

have the best estate sales, and this was picked up from that of one who liked militariana,

This book is a short look at the Coast Artillery Corps as of, The CAC was a now nearlyforgotten branch of the Army that guarded the coastal United States fromthrough, Reading through I realized that almost certainly this was where my grandfather served while he spent World War II defending

California against Japanese attack,

Not really a kids book and probably written for young men considering the service but DSageloved it in all its artilleryesque glory.
I learned quite a bit myself,

Format alternates a page of text with a photograph,

There were a couple pages dedicated to aircraft monitoring systems, including a nifty giant set of ear trumpets for nighttime acoustic location, and notably a very brief mention of radar.
The latter was a surprise I thought radar was completely hushed up until after the end of the war,

Me:/
DS:/The object of this book is to give the civilian reader an idea of the composition and purpose of the Coast Artillery as one of the combat arms of our greatly expanded war Army.
The author has endeavored to show by pictures and by descriptive text the primary weapons manned by Coast Artillery troops and the principal mission of each of the various and diverse organizations equipped with these weapons.
from the forward.