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[Note 4] It was also an outport for the town of Easton, which was largest town on Maryland's Eastern Shore. [26] Easton had the only armory on Maryland's Eastern Shore, a bank, and plenty of goods for the British to plunder. [Note 5] Boats and small vessels could be used on the St. Michaels River to get within three miles (4.8 km) of Easton. [24]
Hans-Ferdinand Geisler (19 April 1891 – 25 June 1966) was a German general during World War II. Military career.
After the Fall of France in 1940, the Army's Harbor Defense Board met to consider the future of coast defenses. The board decided to replace the turn-of-the-century defenses with new casemated 16-inch gun batteries with two guns each, typically one or two batteries per harbor defense command ; most previous 16-inch batteries were also to be ...
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Including field artillery units deployed in coast defense, harbor defense forces peaked at 70,000 troops from spring 1942 until mid-1943. In 1943–44, with most of the new defenses completed, the numerous older weapons of the Endicott and Taft periods were scrapped, with their crews largely reassigned to field artillery units.
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