Don W-37 Loc: Bangkok, Thailand

Naval air power all the way! We go where the targets are hiding. Just sayin'. 😁

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

LOl only parts of it now or it was 2008

Dannj

I went thru Arty school as a Marine in ‘69. It was all 05s and 55s at the time...guess that’s changed a lot.
My most vivid memory was doing AO training in an old “whirlybird”...don’t know the designation...with an old Army Warrant Officer who was doing his best to scare the s*** out of me or make me sick the way he was flying. He almost succeeded but I wasn’t gonna let him know.😳

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Interesting poster.

My father was stationed at Ft. Sill. I have pictures of him there. A friend lived near there before moving east.

Dannj

I remember a bar in Lawton that had a fish tank behind the bar with a piranha swimming around. You could buy a goldfish for a quarter and toss it in the tank. Classy place🥴

andesbill

I am ignorant in these matters, so this is a humble question. Of what use was artillery in WW1. It didn’t seem to end the stalemate.

Rusty Lens

I too am a graduate of that academy of arty learning. Just loved the gentle, warm and sun-kissed summer days and beautiful downtown Lawton. When I was there bars & alcohol were illegal, however, for the sum of one dollar you could get a yearly membership to a private club where alcohol was legal. Fun times. (There may be some sarcasm included in this post.)

Schoee Loc: Europe

no offence intended to anyone.
Artillery is only entrusted with non self loading single shot weapons!

ray1940 Loc: Raleigh

I went to school at Ft Bragg with Finley, the artist for this and many similar drawings. We were preparing for a trip to Vietnam and I was stopping for the language school. Long ago 1966.

14kphotog Loc: Marietta, Ohio

Give me an "A-10" Hog and we will reach way beyond the range of both army or navy guns. Air Force !!! LOL

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Two tours in Nam, you Cannon Cockers saved our bacon several times.

ecblackiii Loc: Maryland

Wingpilot Loc: Wasilla. Ak

I was given a direct commission from Chief Warrant Officer to 1LT, infantry (not my branch choice) rather than artillery, but I always appreciated the “arty boys.” I particularly loved this saying, “The call of the Infantry is ‘Follow me!’, but the the cry of the Artillery is ‘After you!’ Proving that the artillery had more common sense.

pendennis

Artillery was the "great equalizer". It forced infantry into trench warfare, and created the stalemate. It made cavalry useless since air bursts could break up a cavalry charge, along with machine gun fire on both sides. By limiting mobility, artillery could then use plunging (high arc) fire to drop shells into those trenches. Infantry was then obliged to build even deeper entrenchments and create underground shelters.

What finally broke the impasse was the tank. While primitive, it offered some protection against shrapnel, and provided some cover for the infantry. Emplaced artillery on the German side couldn't elevate and train fast enough.

One of the great artillery innovations was the "French 75". It was the first artillery piece which could fire and keep the mount carriage in firing position, using a hydro-pneumatic mechanism to dampen recoil. It also allowed for rapid fire reloading. Before that, guns had to be re-aimed between shots. Some of the old films of the Great War show some of the various "solutions" to recoil, such as reverse ramps, to get the gun back in place.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I was originally signed up for infantry OCS, but in basic training they asked if any of the infantry OCS guys would like to change to artillery OCS, and since I was from Oklahoma City I jumped on it to stay in Oklahoma. I was glad also because there's a lot more math in artillery than infantry, and I was always good at math.