Smoke for artillery practice
Item
-
Title (Dublin Core)
-
Smoke for artillery practice
-
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
-
Our Artillery Shoots at Curling Smoke for Practice
-
Caption: No, they're not fumigating an orchard. The
puff of smoke is a target for artillery practise
-
extracted text (Extract Text)
-
SOMEWHERE in the United States”
our artillerymen are practising.
They have to have something to shoot at.
Recently ingenious soldiers rigged up the
apparatus shown in the accompanying
illustration. It consists of a long pole
at the end of which is a container for
holding two
ounces of black
powder. This is
ignited by pulling
a string. A per-
cussion cap is set
off. The resulting
puff of smoke sim-
ulates a bursting
shrapnel closely.
Somewhere in the
distance are a line
of artillerymen,
who want to get
the range. As the cloud of
smoke bursts in the air, it
represents within certain limits
the entrenched position of the
enemy. As he sees the smoke
curl upward, the commanding
officer gives his directions to the
gunners. The gun crews im-
mediately answer with dummy
rounds of ammunition. As the
bombs go off in different quart-
ers and at different heights,
they see to it that the guns are
trained to bear on the point
where the enemy fire originates,
and not on the actual place
where the cloud of smoke is
observed. In this way they
get accurate training, and more
complete preparation for actual
service “over there.”
-
Language (Dublin Core)
-
eng
-
Date Issued (Dublin Core)
-
1918-04
-
pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
-
506
-
Rights (Dublin Core)
-
Public Domain (Google digitized)
-
Archived by (Dublin Core)
-
Filippo Valle
-
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 4, 1918
