"These 1932 regulations prescribe a systematic procedure for the performance of duties in the service of the piece by personnel assigned to howitzer sections of batteries equipped with 155-mm, howitzer materiel, M1917 and M1918."
"The following brief account of the elementary principles of gunnery has therefore been written so as to serve as an introduction to a proper study of the subject and with the hope that it may prove of some use to those who may wish to learn a very...
"The following brief account of the elementary principles of gunnery has therefore been written so as to serve as an introduction to a proper study of the subject and with the hope that it may prove of some use to those who may wish to learn a very...
"The extraordinary importance which the Gruson-Schumann Shielded Mountings have obtained in military science during the last five years has naturally somewhat diverted the public interest from the armoured turrets and batteries of the Gruson...
The accompanying instructions for the care and cleaning of recoil cylinders of seacoast carriages, prepared in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, are published for the use and information of the Coast Artillery.
The Illustrated War News was a weekly magazine during World War I, published by Illustrated London News. The magazine contained articles, photographs, diagrams and maps. This book is a compilation of issues from October, November and December of...
FM 6-65, Field Artillery Field Manual, Service of the Piece 75-mm Gun, M1917A1, Truck-drawn, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
"This 1939 manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one gun section of the firing battery."
Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
Sections detail information on the inspection and maintenance of mount, a general description of the 12-inch howitzer railway mount (recoil mechanism, elevating / traversing mechanism, ammunition crane, brakes, foundation, muzzle support, etc.),...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates 7
General description 9-30
Emplacement 9
Carriage 9-10
Action of carriage 10
Principal parts 10
Base ring 10
Traversing roller system 11
Racer 11
Dust guards 11
Azimuth circle and pointer 11-12
Chassis and transoms...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates 5
General description 7
Emplacement 7
Carriage 7
Action of carriage 8
Principal parts 8
Base ring 8
Traversing roller system 8
Racer 9
Dust guards 9
Azimuth circle and pointer 9
Chassis and transoms 10...
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one gun section of the firing battery. Sections include organization, posts (mounting and dismounting), movements if the carriages...
Manual for the use of 4.72-inch gun, Armstrong, 50 caliber, mounted on barbette carriage. "The gun is constructed entirely of steel and is designed for obtaining great rapidity of fire. For this purpose it is mounted in a special mounting and is...