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The 10th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. ==Lineage== Constituted 27 February 1924 as 10th Artillery (HD) Coast Artillery, and organized 1 July 1924 at Fort Adams from the following Companies- 173rd, 52nd, 97th, 102nd, 110th, 129th, 147th, and 174th. (and 7th CA Band). Only HHB activated. * 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalion HHB constituted as inactive components on 31 January 1935 * Batteries A, and B activated at Fort Wetherill on 1 July 1939 * Batteries C, D, E, F, activated 10 February 1941 at Fort Adams. Battery C assigned to Fort Greene, (Point Judith, Narragansett, R.I.) Batteries D, E, F, assigned to Fort Church, R.I. * 1st and 2nd Battalions HHB activated on 25 April 1941 * Battery G activated 6 January 1941 at Fort Adams, as (SL) search light battery. * Battery E transferred to (HD) Portland, (less personnel and equipment, and redesignated Battery L 8th Coast Artillery (United States) 10th Coast Artillery reassigned to Camp Forrest, TN. 14 March 1944, and inactivated 10 April 1944. Unit broken up as follows * HHB to 10th Artillery Group (see 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command) * 1st Battalion as 10th Artillery Battalion? * 2nd Battalion as? * 3rd Battalion as? :Disbanded 31 May 1944 (note- according to Sawicki the Automatic Weapons battalion was converted to a Missile Battalion on 5 December 1956 (Nike), and inactivated 1 September 1958 at Fairchild Air Force Base) ==Distinctive unit insignia== * Description A Gold color and metal enamel device 1 inch (2.54 cm) in height overall blazoned: On a wreath Or and Gules, a triton torque drawing a bow and arrow aimed bendwise Or, above a sea wave Vert (Transparent Sea Green) in front of a Latin cross couped Azure. * Symbolism The blue cross indicates the Civil War service of Battery B, 5th Coast Artillery (Now Battery E, 10th Coast Artillery). It served in the 3rd Division, 6th Army Corps during this conflict. The triton with bow and arrow symbolizes danger rising from the sea, against which the Coast Artillery in its forts must guard. * Background The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 10th Coast Artillery Regiment on 27 February 1926. It was redesignated for the 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion on 13 June 1952. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「10th Coast Artillery (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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