Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these connections increase and multiply we should come indeed to an end of that traditional antipathy between town and gown, once so keen in a certain New England collegiate community that when one of the dormitories of the college caught fire the citizens sat out on a neighboring hillside and cheered for its burning. Boston Transcript...
Colonel Rees pointed out that the "importance of the work of the airplanes lies more in directing the artillery fire and in scouting and photographing than in the actual bombing of enemy trenches and positions." By means of the auxiliary maps which are made of the battlefields a pilot can report to the artillery and infantry a location to an accuracy of ten yards, he stated...
...Yesterday, on the last day at Catoosa, the five best men of each company were made into teams for a battalion competition--we shot 10 shots at 300 yds. slow fire, and my score 46 in 50 led by 1 point, which makes me top in the battalion. My score in shots...
Captain Amann of the French Military Mission lectured to members of the advanced course last night on the subject of trench organization and the principles of flanking fire as developed during the last three and a half years. The value of machine guns and automatic rifles placed in salients, with the intervening stretches of the trench only very lightly manned, was pointed out and explained in detail. Such a system of defense although requiring fewer men in the first line trench is by far the most effective, Captain Amann asserted...
...English is evident, but they did cause considerable trouble. A strengthening of such-points of resistance would very likely make a fortress. How are such pits to be destroyed? Maybe the tanks will be equipped with heavier guns, so that they can amble up to a "pill box" and fire point blank. Some new weapon or method of attack will certainly be devised to put the machine gun strongholds out of commission. Whatever is contrived, however, will be but one more step in the development taking place along the Western spout...