Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 write by Boyd L. Dastrup. This book was released on 2003. Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991
Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 write by Boyd L. Dastrup. This book was released on 1994. Modernizing the King of Battle, 1973-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modernizing the King of Battle 1973-1991
Modernizing the King of Battle 1973-1991 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernizing the King of Battle 1973-1991 write by United States Army Field Artillery Center and School. This book was released on 2015-01-23. Modernizing the King of Battle 1973-1991 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernizing the King of Battle, the companion volume to Boyd L. Dastrup's King of Battle: A Branch History of the U.S. Army's Field Artillery, records the U.S. Army's aggressive program to modernize field artillery during the decades between the end of the Vietnam conflict in 1973 and the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. In order to fight effectively across the entire spectrum of conflict, the Army resurrected itself as a powerful fighting force capable of taking on the heavily mechanized Soviet and Warsaw Pact armies on both high-intensity and low- to mid-intensity battlefields. As recent events in Afghanistan and Iraq have demonstrated, field artillery is still a vital component of the contemporary battlefield. Those involved in the ongoing modernization of the King of Battle will benefit greatly from a careful reading of the historical background in this valuable work.
Bracketing the Enemy
Bracketing the Enemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bracketing the Enemy write by John R. Walker. This book was released on 2013-08-08. Bracketing the Enemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. Crucial to the success of these big guns were forward observers, artillerymen on the front lines who directed the artillery fire. Until now, the vital role of forward observers in ground combat has received little scholarly attention. In Bracketing the Enemy, John R. Walker remedies this oversight by offering the first full-length history of forward observer teams during World War II. As early as the U.S. Civil War, artillery fire could reach as far as two miles, but without an “FO” (forward observer) to report where the first shot had landed in relation to the target, and to direct subsequent fire by outlining or “bracketing” the targeted range, many of the advantages of longer-range fire were wasted. During World War II, FOs accompanied infantrymen on the front lines. Now, for the first time, gun crews could bring deadly accurate fire on enemy positions immediately as advancing riflemen encountered these enemy strongpoints. According to Walker, this transition from direct to indirect fire was one of the most important innovations to have occurred in ground combat in centuries. Using the 37th Division in the Pacific Theater and the 87th in Europe as case studies, Walker presents a vivid picture of the dangers involved in FO duty and shows how vitally important forward observers were to the success of ground operations in a variety of scenarios. FO personnel not only performed a vital support function as artillerymen but often transcended their combat role by fighting as infantrymen, sometimes even leading soldiers into battle. And yet, although forward observers lived, fought, and bled with the infantry, they were ineligible to wear the Combat Infantryman’s Badge awarded to the riflemen they supported. Forward observers are thus among the unsung heroes of World War II. Bracketing the Enemy signals a long-overdue recognition of their distinguished service.
American Artillery
American Artillery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Artillery write by Michael Green. This book was released on 2021-03-15. American Artillery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extensively illustrated history covering the artillery weaponry of the United States military from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. The first regiment of artillery in the American Continental Army was formed in 1775. During the American Civil War almost a century later, artillery evolved from the employment of individual batteries to massed fire of grouped batteries. In 1907, the US Army Artillery Corps was reorganized into the Field Artillery and the Coast Artillery Corps. During the First World War, a lack of American-made weapons saw the adoption of foreign artillery pieces. The Second World War demanded the introduction of many new field artillery pieces by the US Army. General Patton later commented, “I don’t have to tell you who won the war, you know our artillery did.” American artillery firepower also took a heavy toll of the enemy during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. During the Cold War American artillery continued to develop, as the military embraced new weapons systems including tactical nuclear missiles, which thankfully never had to be used. Conventional artillery continued to prove highly effective in the country’s twenty-first century wars. This superbly illustrated and authoritative work covers the full range of artillery weaponry that has been in service with US armed forces. “Full of technical details on cannon, rocket and missile launchers, munitions, and fire-direction equipment. There is also considerable information on how new ordnance was developed and adopted into service over time.” —Military Heritage Magazine
