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...ANTIAIRCRAFT DEFENSE THROUGH WORLD WAR II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 British Antiaircraft Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The V-1 Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 American Antiaircraft Artillery . . . . . . . . . . . 22 German Flak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Allied Cou...

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...tion for a few min­ utes or hours because the communication has no value beyond that time ... an artillery spotter :' 9-mes a target; once the shell l... ...BT .•. ----- AXQ ..• COORDINATE(S) CDL BRIGADE GGP ENGAGE E~"EMY AT HLD .•. ----- JMB ... DIRECT ARTILLERY FIRE AT__ BRIGADE . COOROINATE(S) . DIRECT ... ...AT . . . .. . . ENCODE' . BRIGADE . . . '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . CDL COORDINATE(S) AXQ OmECT ARTILLERY FIRE AT_JMB ENGAGE ENEMY AT GGP .............. ...e grouped by geography, service, and particular operational mission or specialty. Thus, the Army artillery unit based in the Pacific area would not be... ...on. (By the wey, in case I haven't mllDtioned this already, the S OrpnizatiOD Was located at the Naval Security Station, WaahiDgton D.C. until May 196... ...you may _ lee when you tour our productioD facilities. The Navy hu one of comparable size at the Naval Se- -: curity Station for its computers. (But t... ...es from the Government itself. Amons them are the National Science Foundation (NSF), the omee of Naval ORIGINAL ---------------------- ._- ._- • • • •... ...vily and successfully almost from the outset. Towards the end of the war, so did most in-eountry Naval forces, particularly airborne usets. In the SIG... ...required protection. In the Navy casc, it was tbc result of DrlCOoiaD measures by tbe Commander, Naval Forces, Vietnam (COMNAVFORV). That Admiral happ...

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...ah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which... ...avery of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti ... ...ring, we perceive a representation of Rameses III (about 1250 B.C.) watching a naval battle, in which the Egyptian fleet is engaging the battle-ships ... ... Venice became engaged in a war with Genoa, in which "Marco enlisted, and in a naval battle which occurred between the two powers soon after, Polo was... ...tions, and furniture of all sorts; horses in one; in another bows and shooting artillery; in a third castlets, cuirasses, and leather armor; and so in... ... the light, and the mystery was solved, for here were full accounts of all the naval enterprises of John, and Henry the Navigator. The royal dinner wa... ...sistance gave no security, for what native arms could withstand the Portuguese artillery? A tender of friendship was no guarantee of safety, for the P... ...over his vessel uninjured da Gama ordered his ships to stand off and use their artillery on the Khadija. His entire fleet thus engaged all day long i... ...ut constructing a fortified camp, the outer works of which was defended by his artillery, so planted as to command the immediate surrounding district....

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...pire is likely to warrant special attention. Nor is the emergence of this land and naval juggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeat... ...role was the one played by General Shahnawaz Tanai, the communist commander of the artillery, who defected to Hekmatyar's side as early as in 1990.... ...and Khad officers. It was Tanai's defection that provided the Taliban with Soviet artillery, Soviet air force, Soviet intelligence and Soviet tech... ...s and adopted new names and identities replete with the title "mullah". The Taliban artillery commander was the former Soviet Army's Afghan militar...

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... would mow down the Swiss...the Swiss kept rushing toward us...it was our artillery that destroyed them...I fought on my great Conde, the chestnut yo... ...e, pitched higher than his, also lacked accomplished delivery. The silent artillery of time was firing at us. I heard the country’s slaves crying ou... ...utive LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 557 Government, including the military and naval authority, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons..... ...ly days, men fought with antiquated guns and poor equipment; however, our artillery, at least, was superior. Our soldiers were fortunate to have fi... ... fields of battle, designate more than battle lines, regiments, infantry, artillery, cavalry, fortifications...those pins are men, my men, my countr... ...ce-to-face fighting all day. Rifles. Pistols. No help from our cavalry or artillery. Pine woods surround. Trees close together. Weather poor. Fred d... ...rdon as we attain peace, peace for our democracy. I will at once lift the naval blockade. I will urge Congress to appropriate $400,000,000 to assist...

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...ive and it lasted 10 bloody days. Crushed by 2000 trained soldiers and horse bound artillery, the outnumbered 1200 rebels surrendered. Forty of the... ...Germany and France in Morocco more than once. Britain and Germany were engaged in a naval arms race which depleted the coffers and the social cohesi... ...n charge reverted to Yugoslavia's neutrality and refused to join the British-Greek naval treaty, for example. But what appeared to be spontaneous d...

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...ons from conquering their homelands. But, with the invention of invention of artillery and firearms, these expanding waves of Nomadic migration and ... ...country. The arrogance of newfound industrialized power, better guns, bigger artillery. But above all… there had been too many strikes, too many... ...her side. The Japanese adopted the tactics of a Ninja assassin as their basic Naval THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six A: Civilization The Effect ... ... ever been attacked by sharks, and I mean never. Not in the entire history of naval history has there ever been a recorded instance where survivors ... ...nds of the Earth for their unforgivable sin of defying the power of a British naval sea captain. The mutineers searched for an island where they th... ...and Sculptures… we call these things artifacts… Boats, Planes, Guns, Bombs, Artillery, Warships, Armor, Weapons Galore… new technologies designed... ...e Earth for their unforgivable sin of defying the absolute power of a British naval sea captain. The mutineers searched for an island where they th... ...ir colonial empire disappeared, their trade monopolies were taken over, their naval might was shattered. They were left without no morals, no ethic... ... his country.’ He loaded his army with more guns and armor and machines and artillery, and had them run their asses so ragged, they were happy to ...

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...g a close-up foundation for her manuscript. The hailstorm that was once like artillery against her flimsy enclave now seemed a milder sleet tapping an... ... in their home in a scantily lit morning. The trailer was the fortress from artillery shells, taps, and scrapes. For a moment she listened to its sp... ...y survive. It is a place for a young woman to hope that one of the American naval officers that she sells herself to will actually want more than a..... ...side all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of nor empty labels to place on ... ...new. They inveighed the Rice University graduate school graduate with their artillery of words: whore, loser, [bastardess] whom they had taken in, an...

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...f the United States under the super- vision and upon the responsibility of naval officers of such gov- ernments and in conformity to such regulations ... ...ed States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been military or naval officers of said so-called Confederate Government above the rank of c... ...d be economical as well as effective aids to the diplomatic, military, and naval service. The consular system of the United States, under the enact- m... ...your careful at- tention to the report itself. The duties devolving on the naval branch of the service dur- ing the year and throughout the whole of t... ...prizes already sent in for adju- dication amounts to over $13,000,000. The naval force of the United States consists at this time of five hundred and ... ...T -GENERAL GRANT, City Point If Newell W. Root, of First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, is under sentence of death, please telegraph me briefly the cir-... ... not amount to less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery. I do not know the number of men and guns accurately, however. ... ... The coun- try is also full of stragglers; the line of retreat marked with artillery, ammunition, burned or charred wagons, caissons, am- bulances, et... ...se, DeBare, and Custis Lee, several thousand prisoners, fourteen pieces of artillery with caissons and a large number of wagons. If the thing is pre...

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...wed in procession from the tomb to the quay. But with the exception of the artillerymen necessary to lead the horses, and occasionally support the car... ... distance. Colonel Trelawney com- manded in person the small detachment of artillerymen who conducted the car, and, thanks to his great care, not the ... ...sels. Our mourning had ceased with the exile of Napo- leon, and the French naval division dressed itself out in all its festal ornaments to receive th... ...alute of twenty-one guns, and our ships returned the salute with all their artillery. Two other salutes were 15 Thackeray fired during the passage fr... ... reception. At this moment, the vessels fired a last salute with all their artillery, and the frigate took in her flags, keeping up only her flag at t... ...a binnacle, or luffing a marlinspike, or keelhauling a maintopgallant (all naval operations, my dear, which any seafaring novelist will explain to you... ...nsibly too, locked up until they are wanted. Take another example: suppose artillerymen were incessantly compelled to walk about with a pyramid of twe...

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....… TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I submit herewith a list of naval officers who commanded ves- sels engaged in the recent brilliant oper... ... 24 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six insurgents, and military and naval forces which had been called out by the government for the defense of... ...bels are in line of battle in front of our lines. They have nine pieces of artillery, and in position, and cavalry. I shelled the woods in which they... ...L HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: Would be very glad of 25,000 infantry; no artillery or cavalry; but please do not send a man if it endangers any plac... ..., Island Number Ten, and at various other places, whilst in command of the naval forces, embracing a period of nearly ten months. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. W A... ...ngs of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six of Newbern, being in chief command of the naval forces. Commander David D. Porter, for distinguished services in the ... ...cts, none shall be destroyed in wantonness or malice. 2. That military and naval commanders shall employ as labor- ers within and from said States so ... ...ge Patten says he was a classmate of yours and was in the same regiment of artillery. Have you a place you would like to put him in? And if so what is... ... be attempted, and I have accordingly issued orders to the engi- neers and artillery to prepare for it. There is much hazard in it, as there always is...

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...and her allies, her government has permitted so much of it as military and naval needs have not requisitioned to continue to ply for gain, which the g... ... in which the essential factor is the drilled and trained infantryman. The artillery is developing as a means of breaking the infantry; cavalry for ch... ...; the fortified place upon a pass or main road, as a check to the advance. Artillery improves, then fortification improves. The defensive holds its ow... ...he enthusiastic infantry of the re- public, improving transport and mobile artillery, using road- making as an aggressive method. In spite of the succ... ...s. This we will call Grade A. T o this the offensive replies with improved artillery, and par- ticularly with high explosive shell instead of shrapnel... ...e as an irregular side development of the armoured-car branch of the Royal Naval Air Service work. The names most closely associ- ated with the work a... ...f Dr. Macnamara’s in the House of Commons) Mr. d’Eyncourt, the Director of Naval Construction, Mr. W. O. Tritton, Lieut. Wilson, R.N.A.S., Mr. Bussell... ...s been left open you see the little group of engineers, staff officers and naval men receding and falling away behind you. Y ou straighten up and go u... ...ns a steady processional movement. The group of engineers and officers and naval men appears at the other side of the door and farther off. Then comes...

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... business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an American 21 Robert Louis Stevenson war-ship, and became ... ...nsuls. Captain Brandeis. The new actor was Brandeis, a Bavarian captain of artillery, of a romantic and adventurous charac- ter. He had served with cr... ...back of the town; and Malietoa pro- ceeded by the beach road to the German naval hospital, where he was received (as he owns, with perfect civility) b... ...another province, decide it perhaps otherwise. I gather, on the whole, our artillery captain was not great in law. T wo articles refer to a matter I m... ... women and children of the enemy. Being the only other representative of a naval power now present in this harbour, for the sake of humanity I hereby ... ...dler; there was no glory to be gained in beating her; and yet I have heard naval officers maintain she might have proved a dangerous an- tagonist in n... ...atives of Mulinuu appear to be under the protection of the Imperial German naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command, I have the honour t... ...e armed natives at Mulinuu are under the protection of the Imperial German naval guard belonging to the vessel under your command.” To this no answer ...

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...ise was planned. They decided at first that they would call themselves the Naval Mr. O’s, a plagiarism, and not perhaps a very good one, from the titl... ...serge, with a lot of gold lace and cord and ornamenta- tion, rather like a naval officer’s, but more so. But that had to be abandoned as impracticable... ... telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of a great naval battle in progress in mid-Atlantic. He learnt it at last from Kurt. K... ...” He spread his maps, he had to talk, and so he delivered a lecture on the naval situation to Bert. “Here it is,” he said, latitude 30 degrees 50 minu... ...n’t see a bit of it, worse luck! Not a sniff we shan’t get!” 2 2 2 2 2 The naval situation in the North Atlantic at that time was a peculiar one. The ... ...with the flagship by wireless telegra- phy, but risking no exposure to the artillery below. It is doubtful at what particular time the unlucky Ameri- ... ...eek. So they took great pains to direct the popular mind towards defensive artillery, and to divert it from any thought of aerial battle. Their real p... ... at that time gave the maximum vertical range to a heavy gun. Much of this artillery was still unmounted, and nearly all of it was unprotected when th...

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...ing the heart with volley- ing discharges, peal after peal, from the final artillery of woe. The coffin is lowered into its home; it has disappeared f... ...unger brother, and a school-fellow of my own age, called formally upon the naval hero. Why, I know not, unless as alumni of the school at which Sir Si... ...t however that may have been, his services, whether classed as military or naval, were memora- bly splendid. And, at that time, his connection, of wha... ...ly undistinguished by public honors. But having since ascer- tained that a naval officer, well known to my own family, and to a naval brother of my ow... ... filled so large a station in the public eye, being the earliest among the naval heroes of England in the first war of the revolution, and the only on... ...e of noble birth, I should have been delighted to see; St. Paul’s, and its naval monuments to Captain Riou and Captain ——, to- gether with its floatin... ...of organization, delicate as lace for ladies, and strong as the harness of artillery horses, which now enmeshed almost every province of Ireland, knit... ... evening with the 13th regiment, part of the Meath militia, and sufficient artillery. Relying upon these assurances, the small parties of militia and ... ...teen miles short of Wexford. A small detachment, however, with part of his artillery, he sent forward; these were the next morning intercepted by the ...

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...ns, and then he answered perplexingly and brokenly. He was a driver in the artillery, and had only come into action about seven. At that time firing w... ...ruins. Then the Thing shut off the Heat-Ray, and turning its back upon the artilleryman, began to waddle away towards the smoulder- ing pine woods tha... ... up out of the pit. The second monster followed the first, and at that the artilleryman began to crawl very cautiously across the hot heather ash towa... ...k his head against the trunk of a pine tree. At last, after nightfall, the artilleryman made a rush for it and got over the railway embankment. Since ... ...m which we had watched the Martians, and went very quietly downstairs. The artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in. He prop... ...enty-four hours brought them reinforcement. And meanwhile the military and naval authorities, now fully alive to the tremendous power of their antagon...

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...ntry’s sake, O Chevalier John Paul, be a word spent, or misspent! In faded naval uniform, Paul Jones lingers visible here; like a wine-skin from which... ...eration, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height after height to boom the tidings of it all over... ...ed, from each of the Eighty-three Departments of France. Likewise from all Naval and Military King’s Forces, shall Deputed quotas come; such Federatio... ... ask another literary Officer; not yet Captain; Sublieutenant only, in the Artillery Regiment La Fere: a young man of twenty-one; not unentitled to sp... ...have done it. Likewise that the Patriot officers, more numerous too in the Artillery and Engineers than elsewhere, were few in number; yet that having... ...es the Municipality to order, by tap of drum, all citizens acquainted with artillery to turn out, and assist in managing the can- non. On the other ha... ...st? An olive-complexioned taciturn man; for the present, Lieutenant in the Artillery-service, who once sat studying Mathematics at Brienne? The same w... ...ister. Do not her Ships and King’s Ships lie rotting piecemeal in harbour; Naval Officers mostly fled, and on furlough too, with pay? Little stirring ...

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...of practical human sagacity. But where were our armed men? where our great artillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the... ...despatched to sea. He went unwillingly; not so much from an objection to a naval life as from a wish, incomprehensible to grown men and boys, and espe... ..., that England had em- barked her costly cavalry to offer it for a mark of artillery- balls on three sides of a square: and the belief was universal t... ...in- gers at them. Everard expected, he had prepared himself for, the young naval politician’s crow, and he meant to admit frankly that he had been wro... ...rmenian con- vent—a lord and a poet. This was to be infinitely more than a naval lieutenant. But Nevil claimed her as little personally as he allowed ... ...ence to be used to get him appointed to the first vacancy in Robert Hall’s naval brigade, then forming a part of our handful in insurgent India. The f... ...letter of tears as to make Mr. Romfrey 100 Beauchamp’s Career believe the naval crown of glory his highest ambition. Who on earth could have guessed ... ...ce. That’s what principles lead you to.’ Principles may be hazy, but heavy artillery is disposable in defence of them, and Beauchamp fired some reverb... ...e a draught of foaming Sillery; Go in and win the uriddy with your Radical artillery.’ And if Sillery will not do, he is advised, he being for super- ...

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... just left the University. My brother was a lieutenant in the horse- guard artillery. His battery was stationed at Krasnoe Selo— it was summer time. M... ... everywhere, especially in the provinces and especially among infantry and artillery men; they talked and corresponded in his language; behaved with g... ...n who was a man of influence, he obtained a commission in the horse-guards artillery; and, though with some difficulty, passed his examination first a... ...ng before he had sent to the authorities a project for some reforms in the artillery department and that the project had been returned to him “with a ... ... from Tyeglev. “Eh! Eh!” cried the doctor all at once. “Is that Tyeglev an artillery officer, a man of middle height and with a stoop, speaks with a l... ...ined for some time motionless in the street; but at the thought that he, a naval officer (Kuzma Vassilyevitch had a very high opinion of his rank) had...

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...eur de Reybert, who is not an intriguing man, far from it, is a captain of artillery, retired in 1816, having served twenty years,—always at a distanc... ... band belongs.” “In what regiment did Monsieur de Reybert serve?” “The 7th artillery.” “Good!” said the count, writing down the number. He had thought... ...promotion and no hierarchy. From a cavalry officer Chosrew simply became a naval officer. Sultan Mahmoud ordered him to capture Ali by sea; and he did... ...ng the French occupation of Illyria to one of our most gallant officers of artillery?” said the count, slyly. “And you believed that artillery officer...