PATRON SAINT OF ARTILLERYME

According to legend, Saint Barbara was the dau

family of Heliopolis in Egypt. Early in the fourth 

haps during Diocletian's ruthless persecution of t

Barbara was shut up in a tower and then martyred 

having become a Christian. As he descended the 

himself had cut off her head, a fierce storm arose, 

lightning struck him and completely consumed him

Barbara came to be invoked against thunder and 

against all accidents arising from explosions and 

chosen as patron saint of artillerymen, possibly 

pieces frequently exploded when fired and artiller

in constant danger from their own weapons.
?\ 

A tank - - or a plane - - is in effect a mobile gun platform. Hence it

! is neither cavalry or infantry but, in the strictest sense, artillery. The

,-" defense against these weapons is likewise a gun- artillery."

Anon

The Field Artillery Journal

February 1942

"When American artillery goes after the Germans, they don't just

plunk one shell here and one there to heckle. Every available gun gets

on one area and smashes away for whatever length of time is necessar

to wipe the place out."

Anon

The Field Artillery Journal

January 1944

"The cannoneers sweated at their tasks with a will and an unbeatab

morale that made difficult jobs look easy."

Anon

Quoted in "Arti lIery in Combat"

The Field Artillery School

January 1945

" ••• Artillery fire broke the backbone of the determined counter·

attack."

Anon

Quoted in "Artillery in Combat"

The Field Artillery School

January 1946

"One German p1'isoner remarked with an air of desperation that the

only thing necessary to bring down one of our artillery concentrations

was to extend one's hand outside a foxhole •••• "

Anon

Quoted in "Artillery in Combat"

The Field Artillery School

January 1945

Anon

Quoted in "Artillery in Combat"

The Field Artillery School

2 January 1945

The air OP has become the primary 

arti lIery •••• "

Ano

Quo

The 

Janu

"Prisoners are unanimous in their gru

Allied artillery •••• "

Ano

Quo

The 

Janu

"Allied artillery fire caused the Germ

the entire front."

Ano

':luo

rhe 

Jan

"The demoralizing effect of 'round th

terized by ••• helplessness, panic and co

German personnel •••• Personnel of all 

terrori zed' •••• "

Ano

Quo

The 

Jon

"All the doughfeet know that without 

swimming the channel instead of being 

Germans fear that more than any arm of 

Ano

The 

Feb

-
" ••• So if anyone makes any squawk against men of arti lIery units,

he has a good stiff kick coming from us doggies. Wherever you are,

artillery, thanks a million. 'K_p throwing 'em,' "

Anon

The Field Artillery Journal

April 1945

••.•• The effectiveness of our counterbattery fire also became quickly

evident because of the appreciably reduced shelling received from

enemy arti lIery as our forces advanced ••• " I

Anon

Quoted in "II Corps, Lessons of

the Italian Cam?aign" in

The Field Artillery Journal

June 1945

Anon

Statement of a Japanese prisoner

of war in Luzon as quoted'in

The Field Artillery Journal

September 1945

"Pray, do they let the enemy planes fly this sky at their will?

Even the artillery observation plane flies like a butterfly as if mocking

us. Yet, I must rema in here and fulfill my duties as a soidier of the

Imperial Army."

Anon

As quoted in "Artillery Cubs in

Mountain Operation" in

The Field Artillery Journal

October 1945

••The invention of arti lIerr spelt the death. knell of castles,"

Anon

"From the Observation Post"

The Gunner

April 1949

"Predictors, rockets and radar - - to mentio

have made 'The Great Art of Artillery' more 

than a Science,"

Anon

The Gu

July 1

"The close- knit integration of the Artille

fostered by the Artillery and so aptly illustra

and liaison offi,cers, is the basis of all Artil

Anon

Informa

The Ar

August 

"An Infantryman's be

Is not his mother

It's the Artillery, Bro

Anon

A range 

Fort B

1953

Major 

As quo

20 May 

"; •• Air bombing and artillery fire served 

other. "

"'Anzio 

Hi storic

of the 

1 Octob
"Individually and collectively artillerymen did a magnificent job

in the war just won. No branch did better."

Colonel Devere Armstrong

"The Changing Present - - A New

Editor Thinks Out Loud" in

The Field Artillery Journal

December 1945

"The artilleryman •••• must invade the field of effort of other

branches and the services in order to become a true arti lIeryman."

Major.General Archibald V, Arnold

"Artillery with the Team" in

The Field Artillery Journal

Januray February 1948

"The artillery accomplished a great deal in the war, a very great

deal. In certain cases it did, perhaps by itself, resolve a situation

••• - - thus contributing toward the common victory."

Marshal Pietro Badoglio

In a speech quoted in

The Field Artillery Journal

January 1940

Philip James Bailey'

"Festus, A Metropolis"

18 _.

"There is nothing the artillery won't or can't do; no place the

artillery won't or can't go."

Major General David G. Barr

CG, 7th Inf Division

Korea 1950

"To Insure success it is vital Importanc

have an everwhelml ng force of field arti lIe

Gener

As qu

of the 

Army

23 Au

"I hope to cover the ground on the artille

but all the way."

Major 

In a 

The 

May. 

"Gun flashes are squirts of flame. Mor

bursts flashes. Nebelwerfers like Roman 

"Battl

The 

1944

4. 

"And Jonathan gave his artill:r~ unto h

Go, carry them into the city." -

The 

I Sa

"From the very beginning of its existen

apart .••.

Major 

"Field 

1935

Majo

"Fiel

1935

-

"
Major General H. G. Bishop

Subtitle for" Field Artillery"

1935

, "The basic tools of the field artilleryman are his guns, his transport,

and hi s five senses."

Major General H. G. Bishop

"Field Arti lIery"

1935

" ••• Field Arti lIery entered the ••• War with a strong sense of

missi on - - not only to support, but k» Iive and die with its infantry."

Major General H. G. Bishop

"Field Artillery"

1935

"The criterion of an artilleryman or any artillery unit is the abi lity

to produce results in battle."

Brigadier General James F.

Brittingham

To Officer Candidates upon

graduation The Artillery School

1935

Lt. Col. E•. H. Burba

As quoted in "Sidi Bou Zid To

Sbeitla" in

The Field Artillery Journal

Jnauray 1944

~Artillery which cannot march is useless and a burden upon the lines

of supply; Artillery which cannot maintain itself, soon falls by the wayside, and artillery which cannot shoot, becomes not only useless, but a

positive menace to its own associates."

Colonel Henry W. Butner

In "The Shrapnel 1923",

Field Artillery School 1923

J / ' . 

"Arm. Arm. it iSo-it is •• the cannon s openin

George, Lo

"Childe Ha

"The Cannon's breath

Wings the far hissing globe of deat

George, Lo

"The Seige 

Stanza 2

"Then shock the hill s with thunde

Then rush'd the steed, to battle d

And louder than the bolts of Heave

For f1ash'd the red artillery."

Thomas Ca

"Hohenlinde

1803

"The three great elements of modern civilizat

Printing, and the Protestant Religion."

Thomas C

"State of 

Critical a

"The whiff of grapeshot •••• if need be, wi I

of it."

Thomas C

"The Fre

1837

"The first lines are not all that we must exp

by artillery fire in case of attack, but the whol

forward pos iti on. "

General d

Commande

February 

- _
" ••• Our guns must no more retreat on the approach of tanks than

W II '

''The great superl"o.rl'ty of our artl"llery gave 

e ington s squares at Waterloo on the approach of hostile cavalry.' n the Germans."

Winston Churchill

"The Second World War," Book I

1948

Arthur Hugh Clough

"The Bothie of Tober.na.Vuoli

"The artillery saved the day at Buena Vista •••• "

Robert F. Cocklin

In a review of "Thomas: Rock

Chickamauga" in

The Field Artillery Journal

January. February 1949

"Thomas never lost his appreciation of the tremendous value of

field artillery, and he became its leading exponent during the Civil

War. "

Robert F. Cocklin

In a review of "Thomas: Rock 0

Chickamauga" in

The Field Artillery Journal

January. February 1949

"To preserve the pride of accomplishment which has always mad

the Artillery great."

Brigadier Geaeral William H. Co

Message to students in Informat

Pamphlet

The Artillery School

August 1950

Lieutenant 

As quoted 

Journal

September 

"We have the best artillery in the world."

General J

Desert R

25 May 1

,

"The rocket is, in truth. an arm by which 

ilitary tactics is destined to be changed."

Major Ge

(circa 18

"The essence of field artillery is the man

Major G

"Full U

The Fiel

June 19

"The artillery must be prepared to concent

ire wherever it is needed, at any moment, so 

any part of the battlefield which may be threa

General 

"The A

1941

It ••• The atom shaved down to fit into an 

The greatest ordnance udvance since the Gr

Colonel 

As quo

A. Gun 

The Sa

21 Nov
Dispatch from the Russian

Commander

Battle of Inkerman

Crimean War

1854

" ••• The formidable concentrations of Soviet artillery material in

the course of the wa, were possible only because the German Comma

tending almost exclusively towards the 'Blitzkrieg' , did not understand in time the full importance of the cannon and was not able to

throw against the Soviet artillery a weapon capable of countering it.'

Official Document

United States Army

"Mar;;hal Stalin called the artillery the 'main shock force of the R

Army!' The Soviet Command, in fact, considers the artillery at least

on the echelon where it is centralized, as the essential means of actr

available to the command."

Official Document

United States Army

"Artillery is the dominant factor in winning this war. Its techriiqu

in massing fires quickly is amazing. We have the best artillery in th

world."

Major General Manton Eddy

Commanding General, XII Corps

As quoted in "BattJefield

Information" The Field Artiller

School

(circa) 1944

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

As quoted in officiai correspond

1943

••••• Our massed fire technique was OM of 

ur ground campaigns throughout the world."

General 

As quot

of World 

and V. 

"The speed, accuracy and devastating po

won confidence and admiration from the troo

inspired fear and respect in th~ enemy."

General 

As quote

Journal

May 194

President 

As quot

Chiang 

19 ••

"The first definite description of a gun o

American 

Vol. II

1952

"The missiles spread themselves abroad 

hunder; they flame like a furnace; they reduc

"Arti lIery is the most effective means of 

he most economical."

"FA Inf

United S

31 Octob
...

"To be effective, artille~'y fire of suitable density must hit the

tar9!tt at the right time and with the appropriate proiectile and fuze.'

FM 6.40, Field Artillery Gunne

January 1950

General Ferdinand Foch

"The Principles of War"

1918

"The Artillery had gained in importance to a degree never dream

o •f

Herman Foertsch

"The Art of Modern Warfare"

1940

" ••• The Artillery came out of the war with more brilliancy than

the other corps of the army ••• "

Fortescue

As quoted by Lt. A. W. Wilson

"The Story of the Gun" in

The Field Artillery Journal

1946 J "Do not forget your dog s of big guns, which are the most· to· be

respected arguments of the rights of kings."

Frederick the Great

As quoted in "War Through the

1946

Fuller

Army Ordnance

January. February 1931

"The ••• Iesson which I learnt ••• accentua

already led me to suppose, namely that artill

arm.' •"

J. F. C

As quo

Journal

t-ebruar

"When the Germans renewed their large s

Front in 1916 at Verdun, it was the newly c

artillery which beat them back and saved th

Irving 

"Maker

"Guns will make us powerful; butter wil

Herman

Radio 

, Summe

I

"tOivisional artillery, reinforced with a 

artillery, was often the giant member of the 

decisive role in battle ••••••

Kent 

"The 

1954

"Form the crossed can

They never will run··

The limber and rolling 

The trace and the col

The rumble of gun

As we follow the Red 

Gerald 

Choru

"
"Promiscuous concentrations at suspected areas chosen either on

the ground or from a map will seldom achieve any results •••• "

Colonel L. S. Griffing

As quoted in "Battlefield

Information"

The Field Artillery ,School

(circa) 1944

"Always aim at the enemy if you know where he is, either by

registered or predicted fire."

Colonel L. S. Griffing

As quoted in "Battlefield

Information"

The Field Artillery School

(ci rea) 1944

"A large measure of the success of the Fifth Army offensive can

be attributed to the complete domination of the battlefield by supporti

artillery. This superiority was obtained by a most complete and

thorough planning by all artillery commanders."

Colonel L. S. Griffing

As quoted in "Battlefield

Information"

The Field Artillery School

(circa) 1944

"The frontal attack upon a battery in action can never succeed, if

only the gunners stand firm and keep cool."

(pseud.) Handspike

"Aldershot Fifty Years Ago" in

The Gunner

August 1949

"The artillery ••• reaped a harvest and 

furtherance of the common cause than poss

a similar groupof battalions in the history 

Brigad

Inoffic

As qu

Begin

1950

"The development of a cannon capable 

of atomic shell fire rapidly, accurotely an

is a signal landmark in military history."

Majo

"Test 

1 Ma

" ••• it is by the concentrated use of a 

commander aims, in reality, to deliver the 

B. H

"The 

1927

"Field Artillery support is essential 

Brig

"Ar

Lev

in T

Sep

"The Artillery, as a branch of service

Ma

An 

Art

.4 J
"The battlefield achievements of the artillery arm have enhanced

the prestige of the entire American Army as well as its own reputation,"

Major General Harry F, Hazlett

In official correspondence

14 June 1943

"Throughout the day the discipline was excellent, The guns were

$erved steadily, there was no sign of the men being rattled, and when

the time came to retire the drivers went off at a slow jog without any

jostling to be away first,"

Major General Sir John Headlam,

K.B.E.

"Gunners- to be proud of" in

The Gunner

August 1949

"Infants in World War II, rocket missiles are destined to be the

giants of future warfare."

Colonel T. O. Headekin

Caption with" Artillery Rockets"

in The Field Artillery Journal

.Jctober 1946

"Kay is a fickle dame,

And she plays a wicked game,

Within proper transfer limits,

Of the shei I,

And when she works,

She works very, very well,

But when she gOes wrong,

She's as wrong as •••

Well, she's unptedictable."

Lt. Colonel Arthur V. Hempstead

Log, 345th FA Battalion

As quoted in "Two Weeks on Active'

T~ Field Artillery Journal

November 1945

"Artillery constitutes a most formidable s

available to any commander of combined arms 

and deep over the battle area."

General 

The Fie

March 1

"The flexibility and power of modern arti

perly organized and coordinated, it constitute

power continuously available to the comman

that may at any time be applied wide and de

the most decisive locality."

Genera

The F

January

"T~ first duty of artillery is to hit, the 

the third is to hit:'

Hohen

"Lette

"A single gun is no gun a

Hohen

"Lette

(Walf

"Ben Battle was a soldier 

And used to war's ala

But a cannon· ball took 

So he laid down his a

Thom

"Fait

1840

"They ate their horses!

But saved their Guns.

L. 

"A 

The 

Ma

19
"Sponge me dry and keep me clean, and I'll fire a shot to Calais

Green. "

"Men call me breaker of tower and wall, through hili and dale I hurl

my ball."

Inscription on 16th century field

piece commonly known as "Queen

Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol"

J

1544

"The last argument of kings."

Inscription on French Cannon

Engraved by order of Louis XIV

(circa) 1700

" ••• Terrible as a dragon and huge as a mountain; destroyer even

of the strongholds of heaven, and a weapon like a fire· raining dragon."

Inscription on the Zam· Zammah

(First gun cast In India)

Engraved by order of Emperor

Durri Dowian

1757

"The Major General tenders to the troops ••• his good wishes for

happy new year, and especially to those officers and men at the pieces

of Arti lIery."

General Andrew Jackson

Orders, Battle of New Orleans

December 1812

"As a front .llne Infantry battalion officer, It is my unqualified

opinion (and I can vouch for its being that of every Infantryman with

whom I served) that the work of the artillery units In the 4th Infantry

Division was the deciding factor in the cr,uclal battles fought by the

regiments in the campaign from Utah Beach toCherbourg, in the bloody

battles in the hedgerows of the Carentan swamps, and especially in the

critical battle of Mortain."

Colonel Gerden F. Johnson

As quoted in "Artillery in

Normandy"

The Field Artillery Journal

March. April 194'9

"There ought to be a respectable b

shall be equal to all the services of w

C

I

A

,"The artillery, however, presented 

men, trained in the ways of honor, an

their hearts, kept the stragglers and 

guns. Here when a horse fell it was 

the officers' private carriages or from 

would not be left behind. When horse

selves to the lighter pieces, bound th

dragged on."

V"There is something very encourag

when at ••• critical moments they hea

at hand ••••••

•••••• Artillery played a very imp

fectlvely and aggressively and contri

the operation."

"PROPERTY 

21

~
USAt!

fOR~il "The artillery must sacriflc!f' itself. Even at the risk of being

captured together with your ordnance, fire your last shot at the enemy.

Count Kutaisov

Order of the Day, Borodlno

1812

Ludendorff

As quoted in The Field Artillery

Journal '

February 1942

"On every occasion when artillery was used with audacity the

Japanese were checkmated and seemed completely bewildered,"

General Douglas MacArthur

The Field Artillery Journal

"Cannons and fire arms are cruel and damnable machines; I belie

them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had s

In a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he w

have died of grief-"

Martin Luther

"Table- Talk," DCCCXX

1569

"In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been

most vltaJ factor."

General Douglas MacArthur

The Field Artillery Journal

June 1942

"The strong effect of massing artillery fire ••• Jas been proven

beyond question."

General Douglas MacArthur

The Field Artillery Journal

June 1942

"tn our operotions over thirty five years, 

episode than the fight by which the field art

Gauntlet. "

S. L. A

13 Ma

S.L.A. 

Title 

Comba

May 1

"Artillerymen have a love for their guns 

than the feeling of any soldier for his weap

me'nt,"

S. L.A

"They 

in Com

May 1

"The French •••• glve sentimental homa

real respect is for the artillery. It Is the d

Rober

(Publi

"Fren

The 

JC':1

"And rounder, rounder, rounder, roared 

Hurling death! "

G. H

"Carm

1849

-

-
",The battle results in the matter of artillery support have demon.

strated conclusively that the current artillery doctrines are sound and

probably the most advanced in the world."

Lieutenant General L.J. McNair

In official correspondence

'3 June 1943

"Cannon his name,

Cannon hi s voice, he came."

George Meredith

"Napoleon I"

18·

"It takes good artillery •• arti lIery inspiring the utmost confidence

In tankers and infantry •• to support a headlong charge toward a hail

of high explosive."

Captain John H. Merriam

"Artillery's Part in the

Bastogne Break· in" in

The Field Artillery Journal

July 1945

"I would like to pay a cOllipliment to the gunners, and I would like

this to be passed on to every gunner.

"The gunners have risen to great heights in this war; they have

been well commanded and well handled."

Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery

Tribute to Royal Regiment of

Artillery

27 June 1945

"In my experience the artillery has never been so efficient as it i

today; it is at the top of Its form."

Field Marshal B.L. Montgomery

Tribute to Royal Regiment of

Artillery

27 June 1945

"The contribution of the artillery to fi

immense. This will always be so; the ha

the war, the more the infantry, and in fact 

gunners."

Field 

Tribu

Artil

27 J

Sir J

As 

Jour

Febr

Mott

5th 

Mot

13th 

Mot

68th 

Mot

82nd 

Mot

120

Mot

192

-
Motto

195th FA Battalion

Motto

31lth FA Battalion

Motto

323rd FA Battalion

Motto

567th FA Battalion

Motto

577th FA Battalion

Motto

579th FA Battalion

Motto

The Field Artillery Sch'"ool

Fort Sill, Oklahoma

(authorized) 1926

"Atillery has never been em

Red Army in this war against N

"When once the melee has 

bring up an unexpected force o

it, is sure to carry the day."

"In march, or in position, t

with the divisions of infantry 

it three hundred rounds, withou

the complement for 2 battles."

"Artillery should always b

positions, and as far in front o

possible, without compromising 

"Missile weapons are now 

fire and not shock that battles 
"The better the infantry is, the more it should be used carefully and

supported with good batteries. I

"Good infantry is, without a doubt, the sinew of an army; but if it is

forced to fight for a long time against very superior artillery, it will

become demoralized and will be destroyed. It is possible that a general

who is more skillful and a better maneuverer than his adversary, having

better infantry, will gain success during a part of the campaign although

his artillery park is very inferior; but on a decisive day in a general

action, he will feel his inferiority in artillery cruelly."

Napoleon

As quoted in "ROOTS OF STRATEGY"

"The better the infantry the more reason its strength should be

husbanded by the support of artillery ••••• "

Napoleon

"Maxims of War"

"A commandant of artillery should understand well the general

principles of each branch of the service •••

Napoleon

"Maxims of War"

"There is no infantry so good that it can with impunity march 1000

or 1200 metres against 16 well placed guns, served by gOl)d gunners."

Napoleon

"Maxims of War"

Napoleon

St. Helena

"In seige warfare, as in the open field, the gun plays the chief

part; it has effected a complete revolution •••• "

Napoleon

AI quoted in The Field

Artillery Journal

February 1942

"It is with artillery that war is made~"

Napo

As q

Journ

Napo

The 

July

"If the commander has the skill to bring 

concentration of artillery to bear upon a se

capture it."

Nap

As 

Mod

"Artillery will be the scourge ofthe w

Gen

As 

1942

& "I do not have to tell you who won the 

A~~~ ._....

Gen

Arti

Bad 

May 

"Modern warfare demands of the artiller

knowledge of his weapon and a thorough u

employment. 'I

Gen

In a 

11 

-
"The World War demonstrated the importance of the Field Artillery.

The majority of casualties were inflicted by this arm."

General John J. Pershing

Letter in "The Shrapnel. 1924"

The Field Artillery School

1924

"Certainly, in all armies, it is in the artillery that the soldier can

best perform hi s duty."

Calonel Ardant du Picq

"Battle Studies"

1944

Ernie Pyle

"Brave Men"

1944

"Our artillery ••••• The Germans feared it almost more than anything

we had."

Ernie Pyle

"Brave Men"

1944

"Our artillery played a hlge part all through the Mediterranean

fighti ng."

Ernie Pyle

"Brave Men"

1944

"After the Battle of the Marne the Allied powers began to make up

their artillery backwardness very rapidly, and by the end of the war

were superior in artillery to GermClny."

Ludwig Rehn

"Warfare; the Relation of War to

Society" 1939

"If, after the battle is over, your infantry do

a poor artilleryman."

Captain Henry 

The Field Art

September. Oc

"The destruction was complete. They were 

fi re from one end tot he other."

Lieutenant Ge

As quoted in 

The Field Ar

1944

"The artillery •••• is constant. It can fire 

kind of weather, and IS limited in the protection 

infantryman only by the supply of ammunition."

Lieutenant G

As quoted in 

The Field A

1944

"In none of our previous combat experience 

artillery been greater both in inflicting losses 

minimizing those of our own Infantry." . 

General Mat

Quoted from 

September 1

"The British Artillery demQnstrated once a

excellence. Especially noteworthy was its gr

of reaction to the requirements of the assault 

Rommel

As quoted i

February 19

~'.The men •••• who batter the foe·· the men 

John Jerome 

"The Men B

1898
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr

"Average Americans"

1919

"American artillery, working under peculiar difficulties was called

on or strong support an gave' f d • i •• t.

"St Lo"

Historical Division, War Department

21 August 1946

" ••• T,he Am~rican arti lIery, guided by air observers •••• , was

not only silencing German batteries but destroying the infantry even

in their dugouts."

"51 Lo"

Historical Division, War Department

21 August 1946

" ••• Field Marshal Kluge ••• required the German air combat the

'particularly obnoxious artillery observation planes' ••••• "

'1St Lo"

Historical Division, War Department

21 August 1946

",The German Seventh Army singled out for special mention the

power of U.S. arti lIery sfpport •••• "

"St Lo"

Jiistorical Division, War Department

21 August 1946

Shakespeare

"Henry V," Act III

"The cannons have their bowels full 

And ready mounted are they to spit f

Their iron indignation."

Shakespeare

"King John,

"Washington rode from the bloody fray

Up to the gun that a woman manned

'Mally Pitcher, you saved the day,'

He said, as he gave her a hero's h

Kate Brown

"Molly Pitc

l"No matter how highly trained the infantry and 

b¥, there is no action until the artillery is ready,"

Brigadier Ge

"A Message t

The Field A

January.March 

r'No army is efficient unless its field artillery 

Major Genera

Letter in "Th

The Field A

1 March 1924

1 "There is no ot~r arm of the service whose e

~irectly dependent upon its officers as is the field 

Major Genera

Letter in "Th

The Field A

1 March 1924

Captain Oliv

"Notes on F

1908

'
"The guns are the nucleus of, and reason for the artillery defense

artillerymen must defend their guns."

ST 6.101.1 Defense of Field

Artillery Against Ground Attack

The Artillery School

September 1951

ST 6.101.1 Defense of Field

J Artillery Against Ground Attack

The Artillery School

September 1951

"Artillery units properl" prepared for defense cannot be overcome

by the enemy."

(,

''..-/'' Artillery is the god of war."

ST 6.101.1 Defense of Field

Artillery Against Ground Attack

The Artillery School

September 1951

Stalin

As quoted by Captain W. 'B. You'

"Artillery Offensive" in

The Field Artillery Journal

January 1946

"Whoever thinks that one can win a war with mighty aviation alone

~s deeply mistaken. If we look back into history we see what an .

Important role artillery has played in all wars."

Stalin

As quoted in "Soviet Military

Doctrine" 1953

"At no other time in history has Field Artillery occupied such a

conspicuous place as it won in the World War." .

Major General Charles P. Summ

The Field Artillery Journal

S~ptember 1930

34

"It matters not what form the enemy's attack 

edium he appears, The Field Artillery must be 

Major Genera

The Field A

September 

Major Genera

The Field A

September 

~" ••• Artillery succeeded where, otherwise,'';'e 

General Cha

As quoted in 

1951

General Zac

Battle of Bu

22 February 

"For this is England's greatest 

He that gain'd a hundred fight

Nor ever lost an English gun.

Alfred, Lo

"Ode on the Death of 

Cannon to right of them,

Carinon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volley'd and thunder'd."

Alfred, Lo

"The Char

1854
"No branch of the U. S. Army has a better combat record in World

War II than the Field Artillery."

Time Magazine

23 August 1943

" ••• Respite in infantry fighting brings no respite from the nervewracking devil's clockwork of the ••••• artillery. men,"

Time Magazine

29 March 1954

"'Artillery wi II determine the pace and fj nal s ucces s· • •• The old

adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon,"

Time Magazine

22 May 1944

"Artillery had its infancy in common with all other sciences' but

its progress towards improvement was much ~Iower." '

Louis de Tousard

"American Artillerists Campanion," Vol II

1890

"The battle of Fredericksburg is of considerable interest to

artillerymen, representing one of the prime cases in the Civi I War of

the engagement of infantry by cannon in masses."

Major John B. B. Trussell, Jr

"Pelham- Gallant Gunner" in

The Field Artillery Journal

March. April 1949

" ••• The decisive effect of a well. placed battery appealed to his

instincts with greater force than the wild rush of a charge of infantry •.,

Major John B. B. Trussell, Jr

"Guns Before Chapultepec," in

The Field Artillery Journal

May June 1949

Major John 

"At the Gat

The Field A

March. April 

"It's high time we heard from the Artillery, to

wrong with our Artillery during the war was its 

Artillery'was so good that it didn't have to whip 

Garrett Und

In a review of 

Armored Ca

January. Fe

I

'

"It may well be that an American Artilleryman 

'

appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of a fo

highly conscious of the value of fire and movem

l Garrett Un

In a review of "Th

Armored C

January- F

, "The Russian counter· offensive which open

1942, ••• began with a barrage that surpassed a

and was officiolly credited with being the princ

,rout. "

Fred K. V

"The Theoretical Ev

in Military 

Fall 1952

••• ,•• The weight of Allied artillery ground th

Fred K. V

"The Theoretical E

in Military 

Fall 1952

-
,

"Don't talk to me about your Hussars; against that rascal'it Is guns:-

we want, and plenty of guns."

Furst Van Blucher

As quoted in "The Transformations of War' '

1912

"Artillery increases the destructive principle of fire; it is the most

redoubtable of arms •••• "

General Carl Von Clausewitz

"On War" (Vol. II)

1911

"Now, more than ever, the artillery Is the indispensable companion

of the Infantry."

General Colmar Van Der Goltz

"The Nation In Arms"

1883

" ••• Not having prepared their attack by artillery fire, it came to

nothing ••• "

Field Marshal Count Van Maltke

"The Franco- German War"

1891

Field Marshal Count Von Moltke

"The Franco- German War"

1891

Field Marshal Count Van Moltke

"The Franco- German War"

1891

Field Marshal Count Van Maltke

"The Franco- Geramn War"

1891

38

General Vo

forr-1erly CG

1945

/~l'..Artillery has shown itself, especially in 

b~bone of the front."

Captai n vo

As quoted in "Artil

Military l<

December 

Duke of W

Roget's Th

1954

Walt Whitm

As quoted in "Nar

lUYth F. A

1932

Walt Whitm

As quoted in "Na

109th F. A

"Possibly no single piece of equipment has 

from all quarters than has the artillery Cub plan

Lieutenant Colone

Assistant Chief o

Armored 01vi sian

February 1944
"Extremely difficult terrain, the limitations of available materiel,

and the fast. moving nature of most campaigns made the employment of

artillery against Indians a difficult problem and often of questionable

value. However, when served by well· trained crews and handled by a

commander who understood its capabilities, artillery proved its

effectiveness against the red man time after time."

Lt Colonel Philip R. Willmarth

"Artillery on the Western Frontier" in

The Field Artillery Jo ••.nal

July. August 1949

"Judging from the record, it is clear that artillery •• although used

sparingly •• did its part and did it well whenever and wherever it was

committed against the savage raiders of the West. ,.

Lt Colonel Philip R. Willmarth

"Artillery on the Western Frontier" in

The Field Artillery Journal

July. August 1949

" ••• The reechoing of the guns through the valley ••• undoubtedly

multiplied the number of our guns in the estimation of the Indians."

Lt Colonel Philip R. Willmarth

"Artillery on the Western Frontier" in

The Field Artillery Journal

July. August 1949

" ••• Sometimes horse artillery, without being followed by its j"

caissons, dashes itself in the very face of the enemy, who is deluged

with grape in preparation for a charge ••• "

Lt Calonel Philip R. Willmarth

••Artillery on the Western Front ier" In

The Field Artillery Journal

July. August 1949

"The Field Artillery accepts with pride its mission as the primary

supportlllfj arm to the Infantry and Armor. It operates zealously to

maintain its established reputation as the greatest killer on the battle.

field, whether by conventional prolectile, atomic prolectlle, free rodeet,

or guided missile. It executes Its mission with an esprit that Is wldel,

recognized as the Spirit of the Field Artillery."

Major General A. M. Harper

"Renown awaits the commander who first in th

artillery to its prime importance on the battlefieldt

"That guns will never b. deserted simply beca

is a point of honor around which the artillery has 

solid discipline of its corps."

S. L. A. Mar

"They F~ugh

General J. L

Desert Rock, 

25 May 1953

1 "Augment your artillery, without which you wil

rour enterprises."

Frederick Th

"·The Gunners are distinguished from the other 

excellent spirit. In action their handling is skillf

and their courage supreme."

"The artillery saved my arm Iinfantryl from u

sacrificed itself to cover the retreat."

. "The great artillery masses decided the result 

enemies were compelled to imitate him before they 

"In my opinion the terror the cannons breed is 

as the execution that follows though it be great."