coast artillery
Americannoun
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artillery used for defending coastal areas.
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a military unit manning such artillery.
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Some Pacific Coast beaches are strung with barbed wire, studded with anti-aircraft batteries, coast artillery, searchlight crews.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Army, which garrisons Navy bases, will have to put barracks, men, coast artillery and antiaircraft, land-based fighters and bombers on the islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
After routine duty in the coast artillery in the U.S. and the Philippines, he taught philosophy at West Point in 1934, went on to Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, graduating in 1936.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naval personnel, including the naval Air Force and coast artillery, is 15,000 men, with 100,000 in reserve.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside the staff departments, the Army now consists of 15 regiments of cavalry, 30 batteries of field artillery, 126 companies of coast artillery, and 30 regiments of infantry.
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