Royal Artillery In The Second World War

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750979313
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Artillery in the Second World War written by Richard Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that was better than that in any other army. However, the Royal Artillery delivered much more than field and medium artillery battlefield support. Gunner regiments manned antitank guns on the front line and light anti-aircraft guns in divisional regiments to defend against air attack at home and abroad. The Royal Artillery also helped to protect convoys that brought essential supplies to Britain, and AA gunners had their finest hour when they destroyed the majority of the V-1 flying bombs launched against Britain from June 1944. Richard Doherty delves into the wide-ranging role of the Royal Artillery, examining its state of preparedness in 1939, the many developments that were introduced during the war – including aerial observation and self-propelled artillery – the growth of the regiment and its effectiveness in its many roles. Royal Artillery in the Second World War is a comprehensive account of a British Army regiment that played a vital role in the ensuing Allied victory.

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781803995564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Artillery in the Second World War written by Richard Doherty and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of the ubiquitous artillery of the Second World War

Author : Stig H. Moberg
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473895626
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunfire! written by Stig H. Moberg and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an insight into how artillery resources were established, developed and employed during the Second World War, using the British Royal Artillery as an example. Beginning with an overview of the nature and state of readiness of the Royal Artillery on the outbreak of war, the book analyses in great detail the weapons available to the Royal Artillery, their technical functionality and their performance capabilities. With this knowledge the author then examines the organization, methods, procedures and tactics employed by the Royal Artillery. To complete this fascinating study, Stig Moberg looks at a number of key battles from the war to see how the artillery was used, and the effectiveness of its support to the British and Allied infantry, in campaigns in North Africa, Burma and Europe. British Artillery of the Second World War is profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, maps, plans, graphs, charts and diagrams to demonstrate precisely how the British Artillery was used on the battlefields around the world. Although I am an infantryman, and proud of it, I have many times said that the Royal Regiment of Artillery, in my opinion, did more to win the last war, more than any other Arm of the Service.Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

Author : Edward W. Chafe
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Creative Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780920021446
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunners, World War II : 166th (Newfoundland) Field Regiment Royal Artillery written by Edward W. Chafe and published by St. John's, Nfld. : Creative Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Massimo Mangilli-Climpson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781594449
Total Pages : 1963 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Larkhill's Wartime Locators written by Massimo Mangilli-Climpson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 1963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artillery survey suffered during the pacifist inter-war period but the war in North Africa highlighted its importance. By the end of 1942 ten major survey units had been formed. Nine were conventional serving in all the main theatres, including the Far East. They played a key part in victories such as El Alamein, Anzio, Caen and Imphal, with their flash-spotting, sound-ranging and surveying of gun lines. A tenth regiment was secretly involved tracing the flight of Hitlers V1 and V2 rockets in order to locate their launch bases. These ‘soldier-scientists were all trained at the School of Survey, Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain. Their work took them to the front line and a considerable number were casualties or became POWs. This is the story of the contribution of these 4,000 men who made up the Survey Regiments. It tells of the heroes, such as Robert (Tug) Wilson of the SBS and the skilful men whose actions under the most difficult and dangerous conditions have received little acknowledgement until now."

Author : John Headlam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847344694
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War written by John Headlam and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sir Headlam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845740436
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War: Volume II 1899-1914 written by John Sir Headlam and published by . This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the theme of the development of the Royal Artillery during the run-up to the Great War, fifteen years compared with the forty of VoL I, fifteen years devoted to definite preparation in which the developments in Organization, Armament and Training discussed in Vol I were co-ordinated to a common aim. On the other hand the breach between branches was widened by the separation between mounted and dismounted, and the general trend towards spacialization. So, in this volume a different method has been adopted in which the developments of each branch are recorded separately in three parts - The Field Army Artillery, The Siege Artillery and the Coast Artillery. Part V has a couple of chapters on the Auxiliary Artillery which included the Militia, Volunteers, the Special Reserve and the Territorial Force. The final Part VI deals with Regimental Institutions such as the Remount Department, the Riding Establishment, the RA Institution, the Artillery College, Gunnery courses, the RMA, the RA Mess and the Bands. One of the appendices provides a chart showing the distribution of units as on 1 Aug 1914. There is a very comprehensive index

Author : Dominick Bidwell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844152162
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire Power written by Dominick Bidwell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is, without doubt, the finest book about the crucial role that artillery played in the two World Wars of the Twentieth century. The authors, both former artillery officers who saw action in Word War Two, describe the development of their neglected, inadequate and class-ridden arm through the battles of the First World War and the eventual war-winning role that artillery played, to the culmination of professional military deployment in the Second World War.

Author : Sanders Marble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351954709
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War written by Sanders Marble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the popular imagination, the battle fields of the Western Front were dominated by the machine gun. Yet soldiers at the time were clear that artillery - not machine guns - dictated the nature, tactics and strategy of the conflict. Only in the last months of the war when the Allies had amassed sufficient numbers of artillery and learned how to use it in an integrated and coherent manner was the stalemate broken and war ended. In this lucid and prize-winning study, the steady development of artillery, and the growing realisation of its primacy within the British Expeditionary Force is charted and analysed. Through an examination of British and Dominion forces operating on the Western Front, the book looks at how tactical and operational changes affected the overall strategy. Chapters cover the role of artillery in supporting infantry attacks, counter-battery work, artillery in defence, training and command and staff arrangements. In line with the 'learning curve' thesis, the work concludes that despite many setbacks and missed opportunities, by 1918 the Royal Artillery had developed effective and coordinated tactics to overcome the defensive advantages of trench warfare that had mired the Western Front in bloody stalemate for the previous three years.

Author : Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Royal Artillery from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War written by Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: