Border Security During Ww2

During the duration of WWII, air defense played a key role in border security along with overseas operations. At the start of the war in 1940, the Costal Artillery Corp was mostly comprised of gun battalions, automatic battalions and searchlight battalions. (Anderson, 2000) One major area of defense was along the coast of San Francisco, California. During 1940’s the Coastal Artillery Corps participated in many Army-Navy joint maneuvers. In November of 1940 1200 guardsman from the regiments left the port of Los Angeles for their new assignment in Oahu, Hawaii. (MacDonald, 2016) After two months of training and the regiment receiving its quota of draftees at 2400 soldiers, the unit was operational at Camp Malakole. “December 7, 1941, a