14th Coast Artillery (United States)
The 14th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army. It served as the Regular Army component of the Harbor Defenses (HD) of Puget Sound, Washington state from 1924 through October 1944, when it was broken up and disbanded as part of an Army-wide reorganization. The 248th Coast Artillery Regiment was the Washington National Guard component of those defenses. Lineage Constituted in the Regular Army 27 February 1924 as 14th Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense), and organized 1 July 1924 at Fort Worden by redesignating the following companies of the Coast Artillery Corps (CAC): 106th, 108th, 94th, 92nd, 85th, 149th, 93rd, 150th, 126th, and 160th. Regimental Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB) and Batteries A, D, and G activated, primarily as caretaking detachments for HD Puget Sound. Battery D inactivated 20 September 1930. Battery D reactivated 1 January 1931 with personnel from HHB and Batteries A & G. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalion HHBs constituted as inactive on 12 September 1935 (Battery K disbanded). 1st Battalion HHB activated 1 July 1939. 2nd Battalion HHB and Batteries B, C, and E activated 3 January 1941 at Fort Worden. Batteries A, B, and C moved to Fort Casey on