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214th
Coast Artillery, May 1st, 1940 at Camp Stewart, GA The 214th Coast Artillery Regiment (AA) Headquarters, Headquarters Company, and Battery "G", 214 Coast Artillery were inducted into Federal service 30 November 1940 and was only to serve for one year. As the saying went "Goodbye dear, I'll be back in a year", things did not work out that way. On December 7th, 1941 Pear Harbor was attacked and war was declared on Japan. Battery "G" and Hq & Hq Company had to stay for the duration of WWII. A partial roster of "G" Battery included: Charles T. Adams, Jack S. Biley, John Harris Bailey Sr., Hubert J. Bell, Hudson Blackman, Fred C. Booth, Rufus E. Burden, George H. Caldwell, Horace G. Cornell, Homer G. Eberhardt, William O. Edwards, Fletcher D. Fleming, Wilton G. Fortson, George W. Gaines, J. C. Gaines, A. H. Gleichauf, Leon G. Gunter, Clyde Hall, Stanley Higinbotham, Claude L. Hill, David C. Hudson, Carl, J. Jackson, Zygmunt Kazmilerczak, William H. Lengel, James E. Lunsford, Albert Martin, James W. McGill, Robert R. McLanahan, Frank Moss, Dallas Nash, Rayford H. Nash, J. W. Price, Melvin Rainbor, William Rosser, Charles Sanders, Jack Schlock, E. L. Shelton, Mid Strickland, B. C. Teasley, Harvey E. Thompson, Asbury H. Townsend, John P. Wallis, Jim Ed Webb, Harris Webb, Claude White, Allen White, Bill Willis, Elbert T. Young, Wallace Harper, Russell E. Kite, Adams Clifton, J. M. Bailey, Joe Cleveland, James W. Johnson, Edward J. Pulliam, Eveln Farrell. In Headquarters, 2nd Battalion there was James W. Dove, George A. Gaines, James S. Gaines, A. P. Goodson, William W. Johnson, Frank E. Madden, George H. Madden, Robert W. Mize, Hubert Powell, Henry D. Ray, Marshall H. Sorrells, Robert C. Ward, James Ward, Woodrow W. Daniel, Fan Story, James A. Bryant.
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