The Coast Artillery Journal. Volume 58, Number 2, February 1923
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.F's 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 d'Escadron d'Artillerie, 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1923
- Accession Number
- ADA499579