"Count Every Shot and Make Every Shot Count," 



Loading one of our coast defense 

 guns. Coast artillery is charged 

 with protecting places of great 

 strategic or commercial im- 

 portance against naval attacks 



At left: The breech of the big 

 gun thrown open to receive a 

 shell, several of which are 

 mounted on trucks specially pro- 

 vided for that particular work 



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