http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/ Support Your Local Fort Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:34:13 GMT Dan Sebby http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11613 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11613 I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:40:07 GMT director@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11612 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11612 Hi Luis, The 732nd CA (AA) Battery, stationed at Fort MacArthur was a Limited Service battery. Some of the guys had one leg shorter than the other and at least Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:33:45 GMT Luis Ramos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11611 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11611 I read a little more on this book and it states that DC was sent to a combat area apparently as a member of an Army Civil Affairs unit. The book states that Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:09:36 GMT Luis Ramos http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11610 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11610 I remember seeing a reference explaining that "limited service" troops were soldiers that could be used for garrison duties but not front-line service, ie. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:43:29 GMT hrunion43 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11609 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11609 I have come across a letter that states that the writer is one of three men in the unit with "limited service". What did you need or do to get such service ? Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:58:53 GMT Pete Payette http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11608 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11608 If Dan Rowbottom is still on this email group, please contact me.   Pete   If Dan Rowbottom is still on this email group, please contact me. Pete Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:22:47 GMT vexillarii@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11607 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11607 I was looking thru this site that lists dissertations:(_http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations/index.cfm_ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:32:01 GMT Joe Janesic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11606 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11606 Thanks John, This is the first time that I have personally seen indications of a room dedicated to the storage of fuses and primers. I wish there were more Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:19:23 GMT John Martini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11605 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11605 Joe J.: CDSG member Morgan Ford took this on Corregidor some years back. He thinks it was Battery Way. ... Joe J.: CDSG member Morgan Ford took this on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:35:42 GMT John Martini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11604 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11604 I believe all the 12-inch LRBC guns like those at Btry Hearn had 75mm guns mounted on top of their barrels for excaliber (subcaliber?) practice. These were Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:24:05 GMT HECP@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11603 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11603 I agree with Shawn; I will not designate actual caliber; but they are 'fixed' rounds. That would mean 75mm, or 3", 105mm and possibly 120mm, 5" or 6" . I Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:05:13 GMT John Martini http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11602 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11602 Thanks! I'll share this information with the other Battery Townsley volunteers. As for storing for primers and fuses, I think the only battery in the Harbor Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:39:02 GMT ROLAND1369@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11601 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11601 John The shell on the chain hoist is not an unfuzed shell but a dummy or drill round. The hole in the rear is for the insertion of a shell extractor. I concur Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:43:06 GMT Shawn and Diane Welch http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11600 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11600 John; I think Jim Webster is right. Those are 75mm ex-caliber shell cases. The photo is of Battery Hearn's magazine. I was taken in the late summer/early fall Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:49:39 GMT Jim Webster http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11599 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CoastDefense/message/11599 ... They look to me like 75mm/3-inch round containers.... -- TTFN Jim ICQ: 58721472 *********************** http://www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment