Field Artillery Training 1914

Author : William Gray Price
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330168905
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Activities and Citations of the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade written by William Gray Price and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Activities and Citations of the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade: Twenty-Eighth Division, United States Army, World War, 1914-1918 The 53rd Field Artillery Brigade, 28th Division, Brigadier-General William G.Price, Jr., commanding, embarked from New York for Overseas Service on May 18th, 1918, arriving in Liverpool May 31st, 1918. After spending several days in Rest Camps in the vicinity of Southampton, England, the Brigade crossed the Channel and by June 9th, 1918, all the Units, including the 107th, 108th and 109th Field Artillery and the 103rd Ammunition Train and the 103rd Trench Mortar Battery were established in the new American Camp at Camp De Meucon, in the heart of quaint old Brittanny. Here the Brigade received its full complement of materiel and horses and underwent an eight weeks' course of training in the use of the French 75's and 155 mm. Howitzers. On August 6th, 1918, the entrainment for the front commenced and by the 8th of August, the 53rd Field Artillery Brigade had rejoined the 28th Division in the Chateau Thierry salient just east of Fismes. Here the Units of the Brigade remained in constant action under continual fire until September 5th, when the advance was ordered which culminated in the crossing of the Vesle River. The attack continued until September 8th, 1918, when orders were received relieving the Division. An eleven-day hike from the Marne to the Argonne Forest then followed. The route of the Brigade from Treloupe sur Marne passed through Epernay, Vitry le Francois and Contression and finally ended in the heart of the Argonne Forest. The batteries went into position in the vicinity of Croix de Pierre on the evening of September 20th, 1918, the Brigade being augmented by two French regiments, the 64th and 238th, with 18 batteries of 75's. On the morning of the 26th of September, the Division attacked in the famous Argonne Offensive. The battle in the Argonne was marked by continual daily attacks until October 10th, when the Division was relieved. The last Units of the Ammunition Train left the Argonne Forest on October 17th, 1918. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.