58th+artillery+battalion

Upon entry into the World War, the United States was put with the problem of providing artillery of a type different than any army. The 58th Regiment of Coast Artillery was formed pursuant to instructions from the war department issued in December 1917. Two armored field artillery battalions, the 73rd and the 58th, were still firing from positions close to Longvilly, pouring shells onto the road junction from which task force harper has been driven. Always attached to a larger until fighting in actions where they were needed, with 19 divisions, in seven corps which were parts of four filed arms. On June 6, 1984, a few of the 58th were again at Omaha Beach with Americans and allies from all over to gather for the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings. It was in place at the Vierville draw at the west end of Omaha Beach where the 58th had landed 40 years before. They worked there way through every rank from private to captain in the 58th, including that most hazardous of jobs in a risky occupation,, artillery forward observer.