...Railway Artillery: a Report On the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, Etc ...
...Railway Artillery: a Report On the Characteristics, Scope of Utility, Etc ...
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept, Harry W. Miller
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The acceleration of the mount is too great to permit the men remaining on it when it is fired or to permit coupling the shell and powder cars to it. 12-INCH GUN (OLDER MODEL). 264. This mount is the first design made up for a 12-inch gun and served most valuable purposes in the Somme offensive of 1917 and in the general offensive of 1918. The writer observed one of these mounts near the one-time village of Dickebush, in Belgium, in March, 1918. It had been emplaced in that location for some tim...e, being operated on a curved track, and was camouflaged as a huge manure pile by raffia nets spread out from the mount in all directions. Some of the very vigorous opinions of the officers in charge are now recalled with reference to the relative merits of spring and pneumatic recuperators. These men had had a ^ood Digitized by VjOOQ IC 152 long taste of the mud of Flanders and were in consequence *de- cidedly opposed to any refinement or delicacy in the mechanisms that they were called upon to handle.
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