Fort Bliss, TX : Air Defense Artillery Museum, 1984. — 212 p. Defining the Aerial Hazard. To Build a New Branch: Organization of the Antiaircraft Service of the A. E. F. The Parameters of Success: Technical and Doctrinal. At War. Photographs. Tables of Organization. Statistics on A. A. Units.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1918. — 557 p. General statement - Artillery as used to-day by the forces of the United States may be divided into two classes, namely, mobile artil lery and seacoast artillery. Mobile artillery is for use in the field, seacoast artillery for use at fortifications. Under the first head, however, are included several types of seacoast...
Ottawa: Museum Restoration Service, 1967. — 32 p. — (Historical Arms Series No. 9). The 9-Pounder cannon was the first gun of the first Canadian Permanent Batteries in 1871. Developments in breech loading guns made the 9-Pdr. RML obsolete by 1890, but as late as 1905 it was still in use in Dominion Artillery Association competitions to expend existing stocks of ammunition. It...
Washington: Goverment Printing Office, 1920. — 383 p. During research on the opening days of the World War II in the Pacific, particularly the Philippine Islands defense, author encountered information referring to dated weapons systems which quickly disappeared from the U.S. wartime arsenal. The supplantion prevented access to information on these systems from standard...
Carrollton: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1993. — 48 p. — ISBN10: 0897470486, ISBN13: 978-0897470483. Railroad guns are a very interesting part of the history of artillery development since the American Civil War. Railroad artillery was dependent on the availability of an extensive railway network for the greatest mobility.
Przemysl, 2002. — 119 s. Niniejsze opracowanie, w zamyśle autora, ma przybliżyć Czytelnikowi to co jest nieodłączną częścią historii Twierdzy Przemyśl. Literatura poświęcona Twierdzy jest przebogata w opisy i zdarzenia, które związane są z początkiem budowy, obroną i dalszymi, ale mniej ciekawymi już zdarzeniami, w końcu wspaniałej jak na owe czasy twierdzy.
Pen & Sword, 2011. — 272 p. Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War - it dominated the battlefields. Yet the history of artillery during the conflict has been neglected, and its impact on the fighting is inadequately understood. Paul Strong and Sanders Marble, in this important and highly readable study, seek to balance the account.
New York: Wiley, 1907. — 698 p. A text-book prepared for the cadets of the United States military academy, West Point. "The niter furnishes the oxygen to burn the charcoal and sul phur. The charcoal furnishes the carbon, and the sulphur gives density to the grain and lowers its point of ignition. The distinguishing characteristic of charcoal is its color, being brown when...
London: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1974. — 248 p. A classical book on atrillery history. A reader's rewiew: "To be read again and again and again. There is so much technical discussion in here that a first read will be like a swallow in the clouds; afterwards, one can dive in like a hawk to pick up the various pivot designs for 1870's coastal guns. As the late Ian V....
London: William Clowes and sons, 1899. — 187 p. This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages, mountings of heavy ordnance, transporting carriages and machines,...
Washington, D.C.: J. J. Chapman, 1884. — 698 p. Instruction in Heavy Artillery is divided into ten parts, viz.: Preliminary Instruction. Service of the Piece. Mechanical Manceuvres. Care and Preservation of Artillery Material. Transportation of Artillery. Employment of Artillery against Armored Vessels and in Harbor Defenses. Field Intrenchments. Attack and Defense of...
L.: J.Murray, 1873. - 620 p. Ordnance, carriages, and ammunition. Part I. gives a general description of the construction and objects of the different guns, carriages, and kinds of ammunition now used, without which the subsequent parts would be but imperfectly understood. To simplify the subject, naval stores and small arms have been omitted, occasional reference being however...
Technical manual. – Washington: War Department, 1943. – 184 p. This manual is published for the information and guidance of the using arms and services. There is included as much technical information required for identification, use, and care of the German 88-mm antiaircraft gun as can be ascertained from printed matter and the materiel on hand. Corrections and additions to...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. - 395 p. In King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, a distinguished array of authors examines the centrepiece of battle in the Great War: artillery. Going beyond the usual tables of calibres and ranges, the contributors consider the organization and technology of artillery, as well as present aspects of training, doctrine, and other national...
ABC-Clio, 2007. — 550 p. Series: Weapons and Warfare Addressing its technical evolution as well as its military and social impact, this comprehensive reference shows how historic leaders such as Dionysus of Syracuse, the Ottoman sultan Mohammad II, Oliver Cromwell, and Napoleon Bonaparte were successful in battle because of their innovative use of artillery. Includes case...
Chief of Ordnance Office, 1984. – 54 p. Being the chronological record of procurement of manufacturing rights by the United States Government; of cooperation between the Army and Navy in purchasing it and then coordinating production for both services; of facilities chosen to make its components, and their contributions toward its improvement; of its perfection under American...