Antiaircraft Command

After a period of trial, error, and compromise the smoke line was established just beyond the antiaircraft positions of the port and just short of the field artillery observation posts. The line was divided into four sections with generators spaced at 1,000-yard intervals. Smoke positions were connected by telephones, and each section had radio communication with the command post. The amount of smoke needed was determined by an observation tower in Nettuno, abetted at times by liaison planes borrowed from the artillery. Each hour an Air Forces... 

ANTONOV, NIKOLAI SERAFIMOVICH. Antonov rose to the rank of major general in the Soviet and Russian armies. He was a professor and doctor of technical sciences. When World War II ended, Antonov commanded an antiaircraft battery. Following the war, he studied military chemistry, and in 1968-1970, he served as commander of the Shikhany military chemical establishment with the rank of colonel-engineer. In 1994 he published an account of the Soviet chemical weapon (CW) establishment. See also TOMKA. 

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