24th Coast Artillery (United States)

24th Coast Artillery Regiment
Active 1942 - 1945
Country  United States
Branch Army
Type Coast artillery
Role Harbor defense
Size Regiment
Part of Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St. John's
Garrison/HQ Fort Pepperrell
Mascot(s) Oozlefinch

The 24th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. It was the garrison of the Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St. John's, Newfoundland from February 1942 through October 1944, as a battalion after March 1943.[1][2]

Lineage

Constituted 13 January 1942 and activated 17 January 1942 at Fort H.G. Wright, New York as 24th Coast Artillery (HD) Regiment (Composite). HHB and Batteries A and B organized at Fort H.G. Wright. Batteries C, D, and E organized 16 February 42 at Fort Pepperrell in Newfoundland Base Command (NBC) with personnel reassigned[3] from Battery A, 53rd Coast Artillery (Tractor Drawn) (TD) Regiment; Battery D, 52nd Coast Artillery (Railway) Regiment; and 2nd Platoon, Battery G, 53rd CA (TD) Regt, that were inactivated in Newfoundland and transferred back to their parent regiments in CONUS, less personnel and equipment.[1]

  • HHB and Batteries A and B were transferred 3 March 1942 to the New York Port of Embarkation for transshipment to Newfoundland, arriving at Fort McAndrew, Newfoundland 25 March 1942.[1]
  • Battery F activated 27 June 1942.[1]
  • Reorganized as 24th CA (HD) Battalion (Separate) 23 March 1943; reorganized as 24th CA (HD) Battalion (Composite) 10 April 1943.[1][2]
  • HHB and Battery C transferred to Camp Shanks, New York for inactivation and reassignment of personnel, arriving 2 January 1944. Detachment of 24th CA Battalion transferred to Camp Shelby, Mississippi 4 January 1944, inactivated and personnel reassigned to Army Ground Forces upon arrival 15 January 1944.[1][2]
  • The remainder (HHD, Batteries A, B, D, and F) operated in NBC with detachments at Harmon Field and Fort McAndrew until reorganized October 1944. Battery B inactivated Fort Jackson, SC. HHD, Batteries A, D, and F transferred to Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts, where the battalion was inactivated and disbanded 8 September 1945.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gaines, p. 16
  2. 1 2 3 Stanton, p. 484
  3. ↑ Technically, units "transferred less personnel and equipment" back to their parent unit
  • Berhow, Mark A., Ed. (2015). American Seacoast Defenses, A Reference Guide, Third Edition. McLean, Virginia: CDSG Press. ISBN 978-0-9748167-3-9.
  • Gaines, William C., Coast Artillery Organizational History, 1917-1950, Coast Defense Journal, vol. 23, issue 2
  • Stanton, Shelby L. (1991). World War II Order of Battle. Galahad Books. ISBN 0-88365-775-9.

Further reading

  • Heitman, Francis B. (1903). Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1789-1903, Vol. 1. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
  • Emerson, William K. (1996). Encyclopedia of United States Army insignia and uniforms. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0806126-22-7.
  • Greg Hagg; Bolling Smith; Mark Berhow. "Insignia of the Coast Artillery Corps" (PDF). The Coast Defense Study Group, Inc. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  • Official US Army lineage website for current units
  • Harbor Defenses in Newfoundland at the Coast Defense Study Group website
  • FortWiki, lists most CONUS and Canadian forts
  • American Forts Network, lists forts in the US, former US territories, Canada, and Central America
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