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This selection of photos is from a set that depict the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, Regular Army, while stationed at Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii in 1913-1914. Schofield was established in 1908 and soon thereafter the 1st FA Regt. was added to the growing garrison on the Island. From the ranks of this regular army artillery regiment other units would be formed including the 9th FA established in Hawaii in 1916.

 

Mounted Color Guard, 1st Field Artillery Regiment, 1914

 

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1st Field Artillery Headquarters Detachment - Army Maneuvers Hawaii 1913

 

Details of Horse Holders, Bugler and HQ Officers wearing OPFOR stripes on their campaign hats.

 

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1st Field Artillery Regiment, Climbing Kipapa Gulch (Schofield Barracks, TH) US Army Maneuvers 1913

 

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1st Field Artillery, 1914 Manuevers - Artillery Crossing Kolekole Pass, Schofield Barracks, TH

 

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Photo detail, horse team and field piece 1914

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Photo detail, Caissons, Wheels and a Remount 1914

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1st Field Artillery, 1914 Maneuvers - Schofield Barracks, TH - Artillery HQ Signalers setting up Heliograph 1914

 

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Etching of Army Heliograph is: A combination photo / engraving (photo with backdrop replaced by engraving) of US Army Signal Corps personnel training with Heliograph ca July 1898 while waiting to be sent to Cuba for the Spanish-American War. From "With the Waiting Army" by Irving Bacheller, July 1898, "The Cosmopolitan", page 316. This is a crop of the bottom figure, which is titled: Signaling with the Heliograph. Note the crossed-flags badge of the Signal Corps on their sleeves. From the accompanying text, this could have been from the encampment at Chickamauga, or Tampa

 

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1st Field Artillery, 1914 Manuevers - Schofield Barracks, TH, Field Pieces Firing on the Range (for those of you familiar with Schofield, this is now Area X)

 

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1st Field Artillery, 1914 Maneuvers - Schofield Barracks, TH, The Heavies - Firing the Siege Guns with the Waianae Mountains in the background

 

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Gun Crew standing by their Piece

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Recoil

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Heavy Battery Firing on the Range

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1st US Field Artillery on parade, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1912 - Mounted Band

 

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1st US Field Artillery on parade, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1912 - Mounted Band Leading the Regiment

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1st US Field Artillery park at Castner (Schofield Barracks) 1914

 

3" M1902 Field Pieces with caissons

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Two Redllegs with a 3" M1902 Field Piece (Could also be a M1904 or M1905)

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1st US Field Artillery temporary quarters at Castner Village (Schofield Barracks) 1914

 

The 3-inch field gun M1902 (76.2 mm), a.k.a. M1904 and M1905, was the U.S. Army’s first nickel steel, quick-firing field gun with a recoil mechanism

 

This weapon replaced the 3.2-inch gun M1897 in most combat units, but both weapons remained in service until after World War I. General John J. Pershing brought several of the guns with him during the Mexican Punitive Expedition in 1916–17, but they were not fired in combat.
 
The M1902/5 was in service from 1905 through 1919. During World War I, the Army primarily used the French 75 mm gun instead of the M1902s, which were mostly kept in the United States for training. Although this weapon appears in World War I-era tables of organization and equipment, very few of the M1902s were used in combat in Europe. They were gradually phased out of active service in the 1920s.
 

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Promotion to Corporal, First Regiment Field Artillery, September 1914 Schofield Barracks, T.H.

 

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Artillery Officer in spurs observing the fall of shot, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1914

 

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Siege Gun Practice, Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1914

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1st US Field Artillery Castner Village, 1914

Maintenance & Repair

 

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Gun Springs

 

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Artillery Officer wearing spurs pouring over the schematic drawings

 

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1st US Field Artillery - 7" Howitzer 1912

 

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1st FA Gunner, 1914

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Setting the 5" & 7" Fuses

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"Easy does it Sarge"

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Hawaiian Service

Camp Castner (Schofield Barracks) Territory of Hawaii 1914

 

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Yes, fascinating details about artillery.  The larger guns (7 inch?) on what look like retracting carriage look very similar to the CAC 10 inch guns at Fort Casey on Whidbey Is. WA.  Part of the "Triangle of Fire" covering the Strait of Juan de Fuca.  I understand those guns came to Fort Casey from the Philippines.  Thanks for posting those wonderful photos!

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Wonderful photographs, much to see.  Thanks for posting.  Not being pickey, but the vehicles that contain the mounted spare wheels are: 3-inch Gun Battery Wagon Model of 1902.  The caission no longer carried the spare wheel as was done with the muzzle-loading system.

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