Text and photos by Colonel E. Paul Semmens (reprinted with permission from ADA Magazine)

An American antiaircraft artillery unit peppers the sky with ack-ack fire from 90-mm guns in an attempt to shoot down a buzz bomb headed for Antwerp in the Fall of 1944. Note the artist has depicted two searchlights in the left background and an SCR-584 gun-laying radar in the right background.

Preface

Chapter 1 – The Coast Artillery Joins the Army: The Creation of Antiaircraft Artillery

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Footnotes