"Artillery In the Vietnam War" Topic
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 Extra Crispy  | 28 Sep 2014 7:30 p.m. PST |
I need a book that goes in to detail about how artillery worked in Vietnam. A lot of the memoirs I read just "we called in arty and blah blah." I'm especially interested in areas of effect for various missions/guns as well as how assets were allocated. |
| Rakkasan | 28 Sep 2014 7:52 p.m. PST |
You can try this link:
link or these books:
Field Artillery and Firepower
Field Artillery, 1954-1973
Firepower in Limited War. 2nd ed.
FM 6-40 Field Artillery Cannon Gunnery, 1967 edition |
 Legion 4  | 29 Sep 2014 7:46 a.m. PST |
Good intel Rakkasan ! BTW, I was a Rakkasan with 3-187; '80-'83 …  |
| corporalpat | 29 Sep 2014 6:12 p.m. PST |
Looks like Rakkasan has it covered nicely. Probably too large of a scope organizationally for your rules Mark, but here is an interesting site if you don't have it already. link |
| capt jimmi | 02 Oct 2014 7:18 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure if this is useful Mark, but as part of the fire control procedure when calling in an artillery fire mission (a big blunt weapon) the description of (including size of) the 'target' is one of the details (/serials). eg; " 30 infantry moving in open , 100 by 150 " …this lets the firing battery sort out the details such as ammo type and how they will intend to cover the requested target area with the amount of 'tubes at their disposal. Is this useful ? |
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