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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * it ... it it it ... ... ... it ... ... it iC ... ... ... .Coast Artillery Jollrnal Fifty-ucond Year of Publication COLOXEL FREDERIC A. PRICE, Editor LT. COL. ARTHUR SY~IOXS, Associate Editor ~IASTER SERGEAXT CHARLES R. MILLER. Circulation Manager The JOURNAL prints articles on subjects of professional and general interest to officers of all the components of the Coast Artillery Corps in order to stimulate thought and provoke discussion. However, opinions expressed and conclusions drawn in articles are in no sense official. They do not reflect the opinions or conclusions of any official or branch of the War Department. The JOURNAL does not carry paid advertising. The JOURNAL pays for original articles upon publication. Manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor. The JOURNAL is not responsible for manuscripts unaccompanied b)' return postage. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The United States Coast Artillery Association OFFICERS MAJOR GENERAL J. A. GREEN PRESIDENT BRIG. GENERAL DONALD B. ROBINSON VICE-PRESIDENT COLONEL FREDERIC A. PRICE SECRETARY-TREASURER ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL BRIG. GENERAL GORDON DE L. CARRINGTON BRIG. GENERAL CHARLES C. CURTIS BRIG. GENERAL STANLEY R. MICKELSEN BRIG. GENERAL RALPH C. TOBIN COLONEL HENRY I. ELLERBE COLONEL H. N. HERRICK COLONEL CHARLES I. CLARK The purpose of the Association shall be to promote the efficiency of the Coast Artillery Corps by maintaining its standards and traditions, by disSt!minating professional knowledge, by inspiring greater effort towards the improuement of materiel and methods of training and by fostering mutual understanding, respect and cooperation among all arms, branches and components of the Regular Army, National Guard, Organized Reserues, and Reserue Officers' Training Corps. It It It It It It It It It It It >I- It >I- >I- It >I- >I- It It It It It It It It It It It It It >I- >I- It It !11111!111II11Ii11ll11111ll1ll1!l111ll1l!1111!lIIlll11ll11lll11l11ll11llll11ll11l11l11llmllllll!1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIII!II!!rI ?2ews and Comment 1II11111111111111111111111111111mlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1II11111111111111111111111111111111111mllllllllili \Vashingron Meeting Officers of the Coast Artillery Corps on duty in and around \Vashington met at the Anny and Navy Club with their wives on December 10 for a late afternoon cocktail party. One hundred and three persons took advantage of this opportunity to renew old friendships and to acquire new friends. This was the second meeting of local Coast Artillery officers in an endeavor to bring together those who are widely separated in office or field location. These meetings have been such a pronounced success that a third one is planned for late in February. OCS Overseas In addition to the eighteen separate branch officer candidate schools maintained by the Anny in twentyfour locations in the United States, officer candidate schools have been established and are in operation overseas. Combined with the desirability of giving every enlisted man of the Anny, no matter where he may be stationed, an opportunity to earn his commISSIOn through attendance at a candidate school, the \iVar De. partment particularly appreciates the added qualification in the case of an enlisted man who has served overseas, especially if he has experienced actual combat during his service. Consequently, since the inception of the officer candidate program, several thousand candidates have been returned to schools in the United States from points all over the world where are garrisoned. United States troops However, because of the distances involved, the time required for return to the United States, and the irregularity of transportation, officer candidate schools have been established overseas also and several classes have already been graduated. vVhile the capacities of such schools are necessarily a military secret, candidate schools have been established for some time in Australia, England and a limited number of small island bases. Additional schools will be authorized as the need arises. f CAOCS in Australia The Holly Ridge Barrage, Camp Davis newspaper, reports that a Coast Artillery Officer Candidate School is now in operation in Australia, and is headed by a former member of the Davis OCS staff. This is the second CAOCS on foreign soil; the first was opened in England. f f
19-13 NE\VS AND COl\Il\1ENT 69 Popular Names of Military Planes The United States Army and Navy have decided to referto military planes by their popular names, in press releasesand broadcasts. The names, and present designationsof the planes, are listed: HEAVY Navy and BOMBERS Marine Corps Name TRAINERS PT-l3 & 17 NZSl & 3 Caydet Boeing PT-19 & 23 Cornell Fairchild NZT Tutor Timm PT'22 NR Recruit Ryan BT.l3 & 15 SNV Valiant VuItee AT-6 SN] Texan North American SNC Falcon Curtiss AT-7 SNBZ Navigator Beech AT.s & 17 Bobcat Cessna AT-IO ArmY B-17 B-24 B-18 B-23 B-25 B-26 B-34 ,\.20 '\.24 '\-25 '\-29 ,\.34 ,\.35 0'\.10 p.38 P-39 P-40 P.43 P.47 P.51 (.43 C45A (.46 (.47 (.53 (.54 (.56 C-61 (.69 (.76 (.S7 Flying Fortress PB4Y Liberator MEDIUM BOMBERS ;Bolo Dragon PB] Mitchell Marauder PV Ventura BD SBD SBZC PBO SBzA GB ]RB R5C R4D R5D R50 GK ]RZS Wichita Beech Original Manufac-turer Boeing Consolidated Douglas Douglas North American Martin Vega LIGHT BOMBERS Havoc (Attack) Douglas Dauntless (Dive) Douglas Helldiver (Dive) Curtiss Hudson (Patrol) Lockheed Bucaneer (Dive) Brewster Vengeance (Dive) Vultee SBZU Vindicator (Dive) Vought-Sikorsky TBD Devastator (Torpedo) Douglas TBF Avenger (Torpedo) Grumman PATROL BOMBERS (FLYING BOATS) PBY Catalina Consolidated PBZY Coronado Consolidated PBM Mariner Martin FIGHTERS Lightning Lockheed Airacobra Bell Warhawk Curtiss Lancer Republic Thunderbolt Republic Mustang North American FzA Buffalo Brewster F4F Wildcat Grumman F4U Corsair Vought-Sikorsky SCOUTING OBSERVATION (SEAPLANES) S03C Seagull Curtiss OS2U Kingfisher Vought-Sikorsky TRANSPORTS Traveler Voyager Commando Sky train Skytrooper Skymaster Lodestar Forwarder Constellation Caravan Liberator Express Excalibur Beech Beech Curtiss Douglas Douglas Douglas Lockheed Fairchild Lockheed Curtiss Consolidated Vought-Sikorsky AT-ll SNBI Kansas Beech AT-I3 & 14 Yankee-Doodle Fairchild AT-15 Crewmaker Boeing AT-19 Reliant Vultee LIAISON 1..1 1..2 1..3-C l..4-B 1..5 ME Vigilant Taylorcraft Grasshopper Aeronca Grasshopper Piper Grasshopper Sentinel Vultee Taylorcraft Aeronca Piper Vultee Antiaircraft Marching Song Contest The United States Coast Artillery Association offers a cash prize of $100.00 for the best Antiaircraft Artillery marching song submitted by July 1, 1943. The winning composition will be judged on both words and music. A full announcement of the detaj]s of the contest will appear jn the March- April issue of the JOURNAL.Please do not submit entries for the contest before the announcement in the next JOURNAL. New Circulation Chart The dream of every edhor-an extensjon to hjs circulation chart-has been realized at the JOURNALoffices. The circulation curve ran right out of the frame, so an extension chart was made up to hang above the old one. We offer thanks and congratulations both to our subscribers and to those tireless missjonaries who have, faithfully through the years, extolled the merits of the JOURNALto non-subscribing Coast Artillerymen. Quantity subscription orders are still helping to swell our circulation figures. Lieutenant Colonel V. W. Wortman, executive of the 65th Coast Artillery, sent in twenty-three new names. Captain Roderick J. Britton, adjutant of the 469th Coast Artillery Battalion, sent in the ejght subscriptions necessary to pun hjs unit jnto the select ranks of the hundred percenters. Lieutenant Colonel Edmund H. Stillman forwarded eighteen subscriptions from a group of future officers who believe jn getting a good start-the senior class at Michigan State College. Second Lieutenant George W. Spurgeon, adjutant of the 14th Coast Artillery, sent in fifteen subscriptions; and Captajn Albert Michel, adjutant of the 264th, gave us the names of eleven more new subscribers. From Ljeutenant Colonel Paul L. Reed, 1st BattaHon, 502d Coast Artillery, came seven new subSCriptions. Colonel Reed is one of the JOURNAL'Smost consistent boosters, and over a perjod of years he has jntroduced the magazine to many new officers. The 20th Coast Artillery, commanded by Colonel Joe F. Simmons, sent in twenty-seven subscriptions, with the Colonel's signature on the letter. It always helps to know that unjt commanders beHeve that the JOURNALjs an important training pubHcation. The 479th Coast Artillery Battalion rang the bell with the biggest order received in quite a whHe-fortyone subscriptions for a 100% record for the 479th. An unusual order came from Colonel Louis Thompson, on forejgn service. Colonel Thompson sent in his own sub--
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