Sentences with phrase «coast artillery»

This was the only single - pit battery built as part of the expansion of the U.S. Coast Artillery, and was constructed during the period 1904 - 1910.

Fort Baker's Horseshoe Cove was the home of the Harbor Defense's mine depot, where Coast Artillery soldiers would carefully load 800 pounds of TNT into metal mines and then plant them underwater, outside the mouth of the bay, with a complex series of electronic cables.

The Coast Artillery Corp went on to fight in both World War I and World War II and remained in service until the army officially deactivated the Corps in 1950.

The men stationed at Fort Baker were members of the Coast Artillery Corps, which was officially created in 1907 by the U.S. Army to protect and defend the nation's harbors.

At the southern end of the peninsula is historic Fort Rosecrans, site of the U.S. Army's Coast Artillery Corps during World War I and World War II.

During World War II the entire southern portion of the peninsula was closed to civilians and used for military purposes, including a battery of coast artillery.

From February 1940 through October 1944 Fort Rosecrans was garrisoned by the 19th Coast Artillery Regiment.

In 1898 the Army built a coast artillery installation on the site which remained active until 1945, when the University of California Division of War Research and the Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory occupied the site as the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL).

One of the deftest quarterbacks in his school's history (in a game against Missouri in the Orange Bowl he was tackled on 32 plays although he actually carried the ball only 11 times), he became a coast artillery officer and, later in the war, a bomber pilot, then returned to Tech to handle the delicate job of distributing season tickets to alumni.

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Elsewhere, a squadron of the Italian Arditi («The Daring Ones») assaults a mountainside base, while the Australian special forces act as runners through the artillery shelled coast of Gallipoli.

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