ARTILLERY (Field)

Fire Control

Military Article Photocopies available from Military/Info

• Bruff, Capt. Lawrence."Pointing," Ordnance and Gunnery (1896), Chapter VIII.; 40 pages, 32 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.20547} [Includes: 270. Pointing, 271. Cases which may occur in pointing - First case - Height of rear sight - Corrections for drift, 272. Second case, 273. Third case - Errors - Fourth case, 274. Permanent angle of drift, 275. Indirect pointing, 276. Causes of deviations in pointing - Effect of wind, 277. Estimating distances - By the eye - By Sound - Le Boulenge telemeter, 278. Range finders - Principle - Class 1, 279. Range finders - Class 2 - Depression range finders - Range and position finder, 280. The Fiske range finder, 281. The Fiske position finder - Range by trail shots, 282. Effect of light - Errors of the eye - Errors in height of front and rear sights, 283. Motion of target - Rotation of the earth - Variations in ammunition, 284. Jump, 285. Description of sights for 8, 10, and 12 inch seacoast guns, 286. Gunner's quadrant for mortars, 287. Sights for siege artillery - For 7 inch howitzer, 288. Sights for field artillery - 3.6 inch mortar - 3.2 Field gun, 289. Deviations - How measured, 290. To find the centre of impact - Example, 291. Errors]
• Bruff, Capt. Lawrence."Probability of Fire," Ordnance and Gunnery (1896), Chapter VIII.; 23 pages, 8 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.20548} [Includes: 293. Division of sheaf of trajectories - Law of error - Probability curve - Principles upon which form of curve depends, 294. Equation of the probability curve - Properties of the curve - Limits, 295. Equation of the probability curve - Properties of the curve - Limits, 295. Modulus of precision h - Use of table I, 296. Probable error - True mean error - Relation between probable and true mean errors, 297. Probable zone - Examples - Comparison of mean and true mean errors, 298. 25 percent rectangle - Probable rectangle - Rectangles of any percentage, 299. Examples - Measure of accuracy of guns - Calculation of probable rectangle from mean error, 300. Use of probable error in calculating probabilities - Use of table II - Example, 301. Probability of hitting any plane figure, 302. Right line method, 303. Value of probability by the right line method]
• Lissak, Ormond M.."Range and Position Finding," Ordnance and Gunnery (1915), Chapter XIV; 16 pages, 18 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.20574} [Includes: Range finders, Depression range finders, Swasey depression range and position finding, The plotting room, Field range and position finding, The Weldon range finder, The battery commander's telescope, The battery commander's ruler, Plotting board for mobile artillery, Other range finders, The Berdan range finder, The Barr and Stroud range finder, The Le Boulenge telemeter]
• Tschappat, William H.. "Aiming Devices,"Ordnance and Gunnery, Chapter XII, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1917); 29 pages, 17 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20741} [Including: Purpose. Direct laying Sights. Correction for Inclination of Trunnion Axis. Independent Line of Sight. Sights for Mobile Artillery. Indirect Laying of Mobile Artillery Guns, the Panoramic Sight. Improved Panoramic Sight. Range Quadrants for Mobile Artillery Guns. Aiming Seacoast Guns. Telescopic Sight, Model 1898. Telescopic Sight, Model 1904. Telescopic Sight, Model 1912. Aiming Seacoast Mortars]
• Tschappat, William H.. "Fire Control Instruments,"Ordnance and Gunnery, Chapter XIII, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1917); 26 pages, 20 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.20742} [Including: Definitions. Swasey Depression Position Finder. The Plotting Room. The Pratt Range Board. The Deflection Board for Guns. Range Finders for Mobile Artillery. The Self contained Range Finder. The Battery Commander‘s Telescope, Model 1915. The Battery Commander‘s Ruler. The Field Artillery Plotter, Model 1907. The Parallax Table]
• Russell, Lt.Colonel H.and Major Charles P.Murray."Get That Fire,"Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.46, No.1 (January 1956); 13 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.10762} [Setting up a Fire support conference demonstration]
• U.S.Army Infantry School. "Adjustment of Observed Fires," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.XXXII, No.1 (January 1948); 25 pages, 15 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.10301} [Includes: Introduction, Bracketing, General principles of conduct of fire, Terms and definitions, Procedure to obtain fire, Determining the deflection factor (S), Conduct of fire by range-bracketing procedure, Deflection-bracketing procedure, Flank observation]
• U.S.Army Infantry School. "Target Grid Method of Fire Adjustment," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.XXXIV, No.1 (January 1949); 23 pages, 22 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.10334} [Includes: Introduction, M-10 Plotting board, Base point adjustment, Target adjustment by a platoon leader, Summary]
• Barone, 2nd Lt.Cosmo M.."Fire for Effect,"Infantry. Vol.50, No.4 (August-September 1960); 1 page Price .50 {Item No.11120} A new technique for obtaining rapid and accurate mortar and artillery fire]
• Blundon, Lieut.Montague, 74th Engineers."High-Burst Ranging," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 15 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.6307} [Includes: Introduction, General remarks, Systems: Telemetric system, False angle of site method, Tangent reticule method, Instruments and operations, Reports and manuals]
• Blundon, Lieut.Montague, Training section, Prepared by, Office Chief of Engineers."The Telemetric System of High Burst Ranging," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.XI (1919); 30 pages, 14 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.6321} [Includes: Introduction, General outline of system, Instruments, Theory, Operation]
• Chrietzberg, Major James , Jr.."Fire Support for the Combat Patrol," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.44, No.1 (January 1954); 8 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10629} [Planning and execution of fire support in Korea]
• Folkerts, Lt.Orville C., Infantry."The Range Deflection Scale", Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.41, No.1 (July 1952); 7 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10537} [The use of a range deflection scale with the M10 plotting board]
• Ives, 1st Lt.A.R., Infantry."Forward Observation: Simplified," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.38, No.1 (January 1951); 11 pages, 8 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10453}
• Massa, Capt.Paul L.(Ret.)."Naval Gunfire Support," Infantry, Vol.51, No.1 (January-February 1961); 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.11154} [Good article with WWII experience notes]
• Mildren, Col.Frank T.and Major Alexander R.Bolling."Fire Support Planning," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.44, No.2 (April 1954); 10 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10654} [Includes: Introduction, Planning - Regiment, Battalion, Company, Platoon, Detailed planning, The assault, Other considerations, Reorganization]
• Russell, Lt.Col.George H. and Major Charles P.Murrey."Use Your Fire Support," Infantry School Quarterly, Vol.45, No.3 (July 1955); 8 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.10728} [Including: Introduction, Fire support coordination center, Communications, Location, Common fire support target numbering system, Prearranged fires, Targets of opportunity, Target designation, Value of the system, Atomic fire planning]
• Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Range and Position Finding for Purposes of Gunnery," by William Oliver Smith. Columbian Exposition (1894), XI.; 28 pages Price 3.00 {Item No.6111}
• War Department, Ordnance Office. "Range and Position Finding—Past and Present," by Captain H. Watkin, R.A.. Ordnance Notes.—No.200 (Washington, 7 June 1882) Before the Royal United Service Institution; 18 pages, 1 plate of illustrations Price 2.00 {Item No.5200}
• Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers. "Range and Position Finding," by Capt.W.T.Unge, Late of the Staff-General and Captain in Royal Uplands Regiment (Army of Sweden). Columbian Exposition (1894),XXXII.; 10 pages, plus 1 plate of illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6134}

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