200th New Mexico Coast Artillery - Roswell, NM - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

Ordered in late 1941 to provide air defenses for Clark Field in the Phillipines, the 200th's equipment was not even unloaded when the Japanese attacked the Air Field only eight hours after Pearl Harbor. Finally on 9 April 1942 it surrendered to the Japanese 14th Army. Elements of this unit were then forced by the Japanese to march into captivity in the Bataan Death March.

While the memorial includes a 90 mm anti-aircraft gun, the 200th actually were equipped with 3-inch guns. They also had .50-caliber machine guns, and 60-inch (1.5 m) Sperry searchlights.

Stone reads:

In Memoriam
N.M. 200th Coast Artillery AA Regt
8 Dec 1941 - First into Battle W.W. II
15 Aug 1945 - Liberated
from Death Camps
"Let us not forget their faith in
God and Country."
Donated by V.F.W. Post 2575
30 May 1959

Several excellent articles on the 200th exist on the Internet. Angelfire Wikipedia

Date of Dedication: 05/30/1959 Property Permission: Public Access instructions: Located at the northwest corner of the Chaves County Courthouse lawn in Roswell, New Mexico Location of waymark: corner of N. Main and E, 5th Roswell, NM 88201 Commemoration: New Mexico 200th Coast Artillery Anti-aircraft Regiment Access times: Not listed Website for Waymark: Not listed

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