Artillery

About Artillery

Born: March 4, 2023

Family

Hokko Tarumaefather

Notable quotes

“Ahead, muffled by distance, was the sound of artillery in the night- always more terrifying than it is by day, though less effective.”
— Alvah Bessie, Men in Battle, pp. 270-271
“In peace the cry is for mobility, in war for weight of shell.”
— Lt Col Alan F. Brooke (later Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke), The Evolution of Artillery in the Great War (1925)
“...если угодно знать, «Войну и мир» читал… Вот, действительно, книга. До самого конца прочитал — и с удовольствием. А почему? Потому что писал не обормот какой-нибудь, а артиллерийский офицер. У вас десятка? Вы со мной…”
— ...If you really want to know, I've read War and Peace. Now there's a book for you. Read it right through — and enjoyed it. Why? Because it wasn't written by any old scribbler but by an artillery officer.
“Artillery is an arm equally formidable both in the offensive and defensive.”
— Antoine-Henri Jomini, (1838), article XLVI, as translated by W. P. Craighill (1862)
“The poorer the infantry, the more artillery it needs; the American infantry needs all it can get.”
— French General Koechlin-Schwartz, speaking to U.S. General George S. Patton on two occasions. Reported in The Patton Papers, 1940–1945, ed. Martin Blumenson; George Smith Patton (Houghton Mifflin, 1972), pp. 520-521
“Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.”
— Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944)

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