![]() America had no mobile heavy artillery to take to France. The men left America with just the packs on their backs and a rifle but no Artillery weapons at all. At the beginning Mailly-le-Camp was nothing more than an empty field but soon enough the CAC learned that this was not an acronym for Coast Artillery Corps but it came to be known as Construct All Camps to the men. The Howitzer regiment, as they were first known went to Mailly-le-Camp, France, as this was the place the American Army had selected as the main location for its Railway Artillery units to be based out of. So, the paths that some of the early Coast Artillery Corps units traveled get a bit intertwined to say the least. Once in France the United States Coast Artillery Corps units underwent an almost weekly re-organizational process in which units were re-assigned transferred and names changed. It was on Augthat the entire Howitzer Regiment sailed aboard the SS Lapland from New York for France. As created the names of the companies and batteries were as follows: Headquarters Company, Supply Company, 1st Battery, 2nd Battery, 3rd Battery, 4th Battery, 5th Battery, 6th Battery, 7th Battery, 8th Battery. The men for this new regiment to be known as the Howitzer Regiment 30th Separate Artillery, CAC, came mostly from Regular Coast Artillery men along the east coast of the United States. This regiment was to consist of a Regimental Headquarters Company, Supply Company and four battalions of two batteries each. ![]() Orders were issued from the War Department for another artillery brigade to be raised and formed. The first three regiments were the 6th, 7th and 8th Provisional Regiments. This was the fourth regiment within the ranks of the Coast Artillery Corps to be formed for duty in France during the war. The 44th Artillery, CAC has its roots in the Howitzer Regiment, 30th Separate Artillery, CAC.
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