INDEX
Paragraphs | Pages | |
Advance guard artillery | 70 | 37-38 |
Air support | 62-65 | 34-35 |
Aerial photographs | 64 | 35 |
Air-artillery cooperation | 63 | 34-35 |
Air missions | 42, 64, 65 | 21-22, 35 |
Air observation | 42, 65 | 21-22, 35 |
Alternate positions | 85 | 50 |
Ammunition | 13 | 5 |
Salvage | 115 | 70 |
Supply | 113 | 67-69 |
Train commander | 28 | 12 |
Annexes, field artillery orders | 31 | 14-15 |
Army artillery | 10 | 4 |
Army artillery officer | 26, 27 | 11-12 |
Artillery: | ||
Control | 19,78,92 | 8, 41, 53 |
Estimate of requirements | 30 | 13-14 |
In reserve | 23 | 9-10 |
Intelligence | 43 | 22 |
Missions | 20-22 | 8-9 |
Movements by rail and water | 73 | 38-39 |
Officers | 26 | 11-12 |
Orders | 31 | 14-15 |
Organization for combat | 24 | 10 |
Plans | 30 | 13-14 |
Positions | 85 | 49-50 |
Staffs | 28 | 12 |
With the corps | 9 | 4 |
Artillery fire: | ||
Ammunition | 13 | 5 |
Counterbattery | 79, 89, 90, 100 | 41-45, 52-53, 58 |
Effect sought | 14 | 5-6 |
Form | 15 | 6-7 |
In defense | 87-92 | 50-53 |
In offense | 76-81 | 40-47 |
Observed and unobserved | 16 | 7 |
Prearrangement | 17 | 8 |
Supporting fires | 14-17 | 5-8 |
Attached artillery | 7-9, 24, 70-72, 77, 83, 85, 86 | 4, 10, 37-38, 40-41, 48-50 |
Attack: | ||
In a meeting engagement | 77 | 40-41 |
Night | 101 | 58 |
Of a fortified locality | 110 | 63-65 |
Of an organized position | 77, 79 | 40-45 |
Preparation | 81 | 46-47 |
Barrages | 15, 79, 90, 100 | 6-7, 41-45, 53, 58 |
Battalion | 4,5 | 3-4 |
Battery | 3 | 3 |
Bivouacs | 75 | 39 |
Brigade | 8 | 4 |
Chain of command | 27 | 12 |
Characteristics of field artillery | 2 | 1-3 |
Classification of artillery fire | 12-18 | 5-8 |
Coast line, defense | 109 | 62-63 |
Combat in towns | 111 | 65-66 |
Commanders, artillery | 26 | 11-12 |
Command posts | 29 | 13 |
Communication: | ||
Axis | 58 | 32 |
Codes and ciphers | 60 | 32-34 |
Means | 59 | 32-33 |
Reconnaissance | 57 | 32 |
Concentration | 15 | 6 |
Contingent zone of fire | 25 | 10-11 |
Control of artillery action | 19, 21, 78, 92, 97, 111 | 8, 9, 41, 53, 56, 65-66 |
Coordination | ||
Of fire | 48-54, 92 | 25-31, 53 |
With supported arm | 48-50 | 25-29 |
Corps artillery | 9, 25, 79, 89, 96 | 4, 11, 41-45, 51-52 |
Corps artillery commander | 26 | 11-12 |
Counterbattery | 79 | 41-45 |
Counterpreparation | 89 | 51-52 |
Covering force | 86 | 50 |
Daylight withdrawal | 96 | 55-56 |
Defensive combat | 84-93 | 49-54 |
Artillery fires | 87-92 | 50-53 |
Artillery positions | 85 | 49-50 |
Defense of coast line | 109 | 62-63 |
Defense of river line | 103 | 59-60 |
Support of covering force | 86 | 50 |
Support of rear position | 93 | 53-54 |
Defensive-offensive operations | 82 | 47-48 |
Delaying action | 97 | 56 |
Desert warfare | 107 | 62 |
Destruction fire | 14 | 5 |
Direct support artillery | 20, 54, 86 | 8-9, 31, 50 |
Displacement of artillery | 54 | 31 |
Division artillery | 7, 79, 89 | 4, 41-45, 51-52 |
Encircling force | 78, 83 | 41, 48 |
Estimate of artillery requirements | 30 | 13-14 |
Field artillery: | ||
Capabilities of weapons | 2 | 2-3 |
Characteristics | 2 | 1-3 |
Modes of transportation | 2 | 2 |
Role in combat | 1 | 1 |
Staffs | 28 | 12 |
Field orders | 31 | 14-15 |
Fire direction | 51-54 | 30-31 |
By large units | 52 | 30 |
Displacements | 54 | 31 |
Within battalion | 53 | 30 |
Zones of fire | 25 | 10-11 |
Fires: | ||
Prearrangement | 49, 79 | 25-27, 41-45 |
Shifting | 50 | 27-29 |
Types | 14-18 | 5-8 |
Flank guard artillery | 72 | 38 |
Fortified locality, attack | 110 | 63-65 |
Forward observer | 39 | 19-20 |
General headquarters artillery | 11 | 5 |
General-support artillery | 21 | 9 |
Groups, artillery | 6 | 4 |
Halts, march | 74 | 39 |
Harassing fire | 14 | 5-6 |
Heavy artillery | 2 | 1-3 |
Intelligence, artillery | 43 | 22 |
Interdiction fire | 14 | 5-6 |
Jungle warfare | 106 | 61-62 |
Landing operations | 108 | 62 |
Liaison | 44 | 23 |
Maintenance | 114 | 69 |
Maps | 18 | 8 |
Marches: | ||
Day | 68 | 37 |
Night | 69 | 37 |
March halts | 74 | 39 |
Messengers | 59 | 33 |
Missions: | ||
Air | 65 | 35 |
Artillery | 20-22 | 8-9 |
Mountain warfare | 105 | 61 |
Movement by rail and water | 73 | 38-39 |
Neutralization fire | 14 | 5 |
Night attack | 101 | 58 |
Night marches | 69 | 37 |
Normal zone of fire | 25 | 10-11 |
Observation | 38-42 | 18-22 |
Air | 42 | 21-22 |
Battalion | 40 | 20 |
Forward observer | 39 | 19-20 |
Posts | 40 | 20 |
Sound and flash | 41 | 20-21 |
Observed fires | 16 | 7 |
Offensive combat: | ||
Artillery positions | 77 | 40-41 |
Attack of organized position | 79 | 44 |
Defensive-offensive | 82 | 47-48 |
Meeting engagements | 77 | 40-41 |
Night attack | 101 | 58 |
Pursuit | 83 | 48 |
Registration | 80 | 46 |
Supporting fires | 79 | 41-45 |
Officers, artillery | 26, 27 | 11-12 |
Organization: | ||
Army artillery | 10 | 4 |
Battalion | 4, 5 | 3-4 |
Battery | 3 | 3 |
Brigade | 8 | 4 |
Corps artillery | 9 | 4 |
Division artillery | 7 | 4 |
General headquarters artillery | 11 | 5 |
Groups | 6 | 4 |
Organization for combat | 24 | 10 |
Division artillery | 24 | 10 |
Corps artillery | 24 | 10 |
Penetration, artillery in | 79 | 41-45 |
Photographic missions | 64 | 35 |
Planning supporting fires | 49 | 25-27 |
Plans, artillery | 30 | 13-14 |
Positions, artillery | 33, 77, 82, 85, 88 | 16, 40-41, 47-51 |
Prearranged fires | 17, 48, 79 | 8, 25, 41-45 |
Preparation, artillery | 79 | 41-45 |
Pursuit, artillery in | 83 | 48 |
Radio communication | 59 | 32-33 |
Raids, support of | 100 | 58 |
Rail movements | 73 | 38-39 |
Rear guard artillery | 71 | 38 |
Reconnaissance | 32 | 16 |
Extent | 37 | 17-18 |
For communications | 57 | 32 |
For positions | 33 | 16 |
Planning | 35 | 17 |
Routes | 34 | 16 |
Time available | 36 | 17 |
Registration | 14, 80 | 5-6, 46 |
Reinforcing artillery | 22 | 9 |
Reserve artillery | 23 | 9-10 |
Retrograde movements | 94-98 | 55-57 |
Daylight withdrawal | 96 | 55-56 |
Delaying action | 97 | 56 |
Night withdrawal | 95 | 55 |
Retirement | 98 | 56-57 |
River crossing | 102 | 59 |
River line, defense | 103 | 59-60 |
Role of artillery | 1 | 1 |
Salvage | 115 | 69-70 |
Schedule fires | 50 | 27-29 |
Security | 61 | 34 |
Shifting of fire | 50 | 27-29 |
Signal communications | 55-60 | 32-34 |
Snow and extreme cold operations | 104 | 60-61 |
Sound and flash observation | 41 | 20-21 |
Special operations | 99-111 | 58-66 |
Attack of fortified locality | 110 | 63-65 |
Combat in towns | 111 | 65-66 |
Defense of coast line | 109 | 62-63 |
Defense of river line | 103 | 59-60 |
Desert warfare | 107 | 62 |
Jungle warfare | 106 | 61-62 |
Landing operations | 108 | 62 |
Mountain warfare | 105 | 61 |
Night attack | 101 | 58 |
Raids | 100 | 58 |
River crossing | 102 | 59 |
Snow and extreme cold | 104 | 60-61 |
Staff functions | 28 | 12 |
Supply | 112,113 | 67-69 |
Support of covering force | 86 | 50 |
Supporting fires | 49, 50, 79 | 25-29, 41-45 |
Targets of opportunity | 17, 40, 50 | 8, 20, 27-29 |
Temporary positions | 85 | 49-50 |
Time schedules | 50 | 27-29 |
Troop movements | 66 | 36 |
Bivouacs | 75 | 39 |
Halts | 74 | 39 |
Marches | 67-69 | 36-37 |
Rail and water movements | 73 | 38-39 |
Security detachments | 70-72 | 37-38 |
Unobserved fires | 16, 18 | 7-8 |
Visual communication | 59 | 32-33 |
Voice communication | 59 | 32-33 |
Water movements | 73 | 38-39 |
Withdrawal, artillery in | 95, 96 | 55-56 |
Wire communication | 59 | 32-33 |
Zones of fire | 25 | 10-11 |