Originally posted by Voriax
Chief, thanks for the reply.
One reason for my question is that a smart man in Finland developed arty practices during early 30's into level normally attributed to US arty only.
However lack of ammunition, guns and comm gear often reduced the effectiveness of Finnish arty.
And that effectiveness was main reason why the Sov attacks were stopped in '44...at best some 200 tubes were firing at an area of 2-3 football fields...breaking up Sov attacks before they even begun.
Voriax
And thats the whole point .. the US had the Guns, the commo, the ammo , the doctrine ( can't stress the doctrine enough , getting Bde and Div CO's to not try and hoard their arty for their sub units was a big part of this), the Training ( this won't work unless the Plt Sgt can call for what he needs and knows how to do it ) and the spotter Aircraft .. unlike any other nation on Earth.
Chief same process in the Pacific but different scale of Arty .. go back to the post with the link on the history of the 4.2 Mortar .. See what they could do with those on Beach landings .. Most the Heavy stuff was Naval .. Ships had the same basic Computer with added features of adjusting for ship movement in 3 axis and a direct register read into the turret , Big Suckers like BB's had a Electric powered Analog Computer weighting almost a ton with thousand of driveshafts and cams to account for 30 knots in a Buford 6 sea in a tight turn on a moving target doing same. Field Arty with the guns and ground in the same spot for hours at a time and a target sitting still for 5 minutes was truely simple stuff . Did I mention Spotter Aircraft ?
