Talk:Fire control tower

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Edits on 6/8/10

I did several edits to make the scope of this article more general, and added links to other articles on the U.S. Coast Artillery, which manned the fire control towers. I also removed the category reference to WW2 Sites, since that category seems to include sites which were involved in enemy action. (talk) 23:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edits on 6/9/10

Added images of a brick fire control tower at Fort Andrews and twin towers located in Nahant, MA. Also corrected attribution of U.S. Army photo of observation instruments. Pgrig (talk) 13:47, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit of 10/1/10

Article was re-written and the selection of images greatly expanded/edited. In-line images were added. Pgrig (talk) 17:15, 1 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Global perspective needed

Fire Control Tower is defined here as being part of the US coastal defence. The Atlantic Wall is a comparable coastal defense in Europe and obviously has its own Fire Control Towers. There are likely other examples elsewhere, so shouldn't the article be split in a general FCT part and a US-specific FCT part? We ran into this when trying to provide photos of European Fire Control Towers in Fotopedia (which uses the Wikipedia article collection as a backbone). VdHamer (talk) 08:46, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It would obviously be desirable to have a broad international perspective on this coast defense element that was used by several major powers. However, for that to happen someone will have to find the appropriate references and add the material to the article. RobDuch (talk) 05:31, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]