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unusual facts about Field Artillery



Powder Alarm

Most of the regulars then returned to Boston the way they had come, but a small contingent marched to Cambridge, removed two field pieces, and took them to Boston by foot over the Great Bridge and up Boston Neck.


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102nd Field Artillery Regiment

The lineage of the 102d Field Artillery and the Second Corps of Cadets was transferred to Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion 101st Field Artillery in Danvers, Massachusetts.

The 102nd Field Artillery Regiment was organized in July 1786 in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at Salem, Massachusetts as the Cadet Company and re-designated as the Second Corps of Cadets.

148th Field Artillery Regiment

The 148th Field Artillery was organized on 29 September 1917 by General Order 2, Headquarters 41st Division, trained at Camp Greene, North Carolina, Camp Mills, New York, and Camp Merritt, New Jersey.

192nd Military Police Battalion

The 2/192nd Field Artillery Battalion was mobilized in April 2002 in support of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

258th Field Artillery Regiment

Predecessors of the 258th Field Artillery Regiment fought in the War of 1812, the Spanish American War, the United States Civil War, World War I, World War II, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

The 258th Field Artillery is one of only nineteen Army National Guard units with campaign credit for the War of 1812.

25th Field Artillery Regiment

During this deployment, the brigade assumed responsibility over a number of provinces in eastern Afghanistan under the control of Regional Command East, and the 4th Battalion, 25th Field Artillery provided artillery fires for the brigade using the M777 towed 155mm howitzer.

2nd/10th Dragoons

The 2nd/10th Dragoons (short-form: 2/10 D) (in its last incarnation, the 57th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd/10th Dragoons, Royal Canadian Artillery or 57 FD REGT RCA) was a militia regiment of the Canadian Army, based in the Niagara, Wentworth and Brant regions of southern Ontario.

32nd Field Artillery Regiment

The 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, were able to conduct join fire missions with the ANA D-30 units.

From February 2007 until April 2008, the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, Task Force Patriot, as part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division served in northwest Baghdad where it conducted dismounted infantry operations to secure the populace and defeat extremist, insurgent, and criminal threats to security.

3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery Regiment

During World War I, the battery was one of six 4-gun 155mm batteries in the 157th Field Artillery Brigade, and participated in three major offensives: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Lorraine.

49th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA

49th (Sault Ste. Marie) Field Artillery Regiment, R.C.A. is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve regiment based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

56th Field Artillery Command

They were the first of three tactical nuclear battalions to fall under the 56th Field Artillery Group in command structure.

Artillery Memorial, Cape Town

South African Field Artillery and the South African Heavy Artillery were raised from volunteers to fight in France and East Africa respectively during the Battle of Delville Woodagainst the Germans.

Artillery tractor

The Royal Artillery however, persisted with specialist artillery tractors (known as Field Artillery Tractors or 'FAT's) such as the Morris "Quad" and AEC Matador throughout World War II, rather than adopt a general purpose vehicle.

Barber–Layden–Power effect

The phenomenon is so named after the lead researchers from a joint team drawn from NASA Ames Research Center, the Field Artillery Training Center at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and instructors from the USAF Air Weapons School at Nellis AFB in response to a formal request for assistance from United States Central Command, MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, framed following events during Operation Anaconda.

Battle of Cantigny

The American Battle Monuments Commission erected a monument in the village of Cantigny that was dedicated on 9 August 1937 with a speech given (at the invitation of General John J. Pershing) by Col. Robert R. McCormick, who had commanded the 1st Battalion of the 5th Field Artillery regiment at the battle.

Brescia Mechanized Brigade

Along with the Cremona Brigade in Brescia and the 6th Field Artillery Regiment it formed the 6th Division of the Line.

D44

85 mm divisional gun D-44, a 1945 Soviet divisional 85-mm calibre field artillery gun

Enoggera Barracks

105th Medium Battery (This unit was formerly a field artillery unit until 2005)

French 75

The Canon de 75 modèle 1897, an innovative design that introduced, for the first time in field artillery history, a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism keeping the gun stable during firing and thus permitting high rates of accurate shell delivery.

Gerald Patterson

Patterson was awarded the Military Cross for bravery as an officer in Royal Field Artillery in 1917 at Messines.

Gun data computer

It was composed of computers and remote devices such as the Variable Format Message Entry Device (VFMED), the Digital Message Device (DMD) and the Firefinder Field Artillery target acquisition radar system linked by digital communications using existing radio and wire communications equipment.

Gunner Palace

The film documents the operations of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, an element of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division beginning in the late summer of 2003 until the unit was relieved by 3rd Battalion, 153rd Infantry Regiment, of the 39th Brigade Combat Team, an element of the 1st Cavalry Division in April 2004.

Harry J. Malony

In 1935, he attended the Army War College and subsequently became a Member of the Field Artillery Board.

Horace H. Fuller

He sailed for France in October 1918 and joined the 108th Field Artillery at Véronnes.

Ipswich Camp

Ipswich Camp is a former infantry and field artillery coastal defense base camp that existed from between May 1942 and November 1943 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

James Joseph Kingstone

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, Brigadier Kingstone was under the command of Major General J. G. W. Clark and was part of his relieving Habforce which included the British 4th Cavalry Brigade, a battalion of The Essex Regiment, the Arab Legion Mechanised Regiment, a field artillery battery and a troop of anti-tank guns).

James W. Nuttall

#January, 1976 – April, 1976, Student, Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, United States Army Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma

John Uberti

After completing the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) where he served as a Fire Support Team Chief, Battery Fire Direction Officer, Battery Executive Officer and Battalion S4.

M198 howitzer

It also provides field artillery fire support for all Marine Air-Ground Task Force organizations.

Mark E. Anderson

Aside from his service in Wisconsin, Anderson also serves as Deputy Commanding General for Army National Guard, Field Artillery Center at Fort Sill.

Midnight Sun Run

In 2006, some fifty United States Army soldiers, members of the 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery with the 172 Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fort Wainwright, would not let their deployment in the Iraq War prevent them from participating in the Midnight Sun Run.

Molly Pitcher

The Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery branches of the US Army established an honorary society in Molly Pitcher's name, the Honorable Order of Molly Pitcher.

Army base Fort Bragg holds an annual event called "Molly Pitcher Day" showcasing weapon systems, airborne operations, and field artillery for family members.

Richard D. Dean

He commanded Battery C, 1st Battalion,128th Field Artillery and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 128th Field Artillery in the 1950s.

Richard I. Neal

Following completion of The Basic School and subsequently the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Neal was assigned to the 3rd Marine Division in Republic of Vietnam, where he served as a Forward Observer with the 3rd Battalion 9th Marines.

Sam K. Harrison

The Battalion was then moved to Fort Sill in Oklahoma in February 1944, for a three-month stay at Field Artillery School.

Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon

This undoubtedly inspired their Morris C9/B (officially the "Carrier, SP, 4x4, 40 mm AA"), a Bofors 40 mm AA gun mounted on a chassis derived from the Morris "Quad" Field Artillery Tractor truck.

Tobyhanna Army Depot

At that time the U.S. Army had no artillery training range east of Wisconsin, and Major Charles P. Summerall, commander of the 3rd Field Artillery at Fort Myer, Virginia chose the site as a suitable training range.

Ulrich Fleischhauer

His career was at first grounded in the Imperial German Army where by 1918 Fleischhauer rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and regimental commander of a field artillery unit in Colmar.

United States Army Bermuda Garrison

US Army field artillery batteries were put in long term emplacements around Bermuda, from St. George's Island to Southampton, where field artillery was placed outside Scaur Hill Fort.