Field Artillery

The First World War interrupted his brilliant ascent as a scientist. He served as lieutenant in the field artillery, in France and on the Russian front. In 1917, he was called by Fritz Haber to the Kaiser-Wilhelm In-stitut in Berlin-Dahlem, as associate professor to work on problems of chemical warfare. He formed a lasting friendship with Haber. His stay in Berlin-Dahlem was also of personal importance, for there he met his wife. 

Primers used in small arms and field artillery weapons were of the nonelectric type, but in stationary cannons, such as in coastal artillery or in Naval cannons, electric primers could be used... 

Fuzes, Proximity, M513 (T226) and M513B1 (T226B1). Early models of the adjustable, delayed-arming type for use in 75-mm to 105-mm field artillery projectiles, including terrestrial targets (pp 5-117 5-118)... 

Refs 1) A. Niblach, Field Artillery Journal 1928 (March-r April), pp 145-50 (Prematures in die USA) 2) E. Dunin-Marcinkiewicz, MemArtilFr 14, 135—74(1935) (Sur les eclate-ments dans Tame des bouches a feu) Translated from PrzegladArtyleryjski 1930, No 4 3) G.L. Schuyler, US Naval Report, Oct 21, 1946, "The Diagnosis of Puzzling and Important Misbehaviors of Naval Ordnance Material The following prematures and their possible causes are cited a) The Colorado s 5" 25 caliber gun explosion. 

We have no information about weapons used after WWII by the French, but presume that they are still using some of the WWII items Refs I) Anon, FAJ (Field Artillery Journal) 34, 641(1944) 2) G.B. Jarrett, FAJ 35 669... 

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T. B.A. Bailey, Field Artillery and Firepower (Annapolis, Md Naval Institute Press, 2004), pp.290, 303-21. 

Tubular and multiperforated powders for field artillery are, in addition, designated by a fraction, in which the numerator shows the web thickness in tenths of millimetres, and the denominator the number of perforations. The letters TP (Russian TR) following these figures mean that the powder in question is a tubular one. Thus y TP denotes a single-perforated tubular powder with a web thickness of 1 mm. Similarly... 

Refs 1) Anon, Field Artillery Journal 34, 505(1944) 2) B.T. Fedoroff et al, PATR... 

Anon, "Basic Field Artillery, Military Service Publg Co,Harris burg, Pa(1934)... 

Field Artillery, The King of Battle, Houghton Mifflin Co,Boston(1935) 18a)A. Basset, MAF U, 881-1280(1935) (Hssais sur I Historique des Fabrications d Ar-mement en France) 19)J.S,Hatcher, "Textbook of Pistols and Revolvers/ ... 

Exc Excellency FAFM Field Artillery Field Manual... 

In 1914 he published a monumental exptl work on the determination of pressures and velocities as functions of projectile travel for the 3" field artillery gun, which is still of practical value today. Zabudsky was elected a member of the French Academy of Science in 1911 Refs 1) A.D. Blinov, Kurs Artillereii, Voyen-noye Izdatel stvo , Vol 1, Moscow (1948)... 

The section CANNON, etc was reviewed by A.B.Schilling of PicArsn, Dover, NJ Refs l)W.W.Greener, "The Gun and Its Development , Cassell, Petter Co, London (1881), 17-18 27 2)Col H.W.L.Hime, "The Origin Of Artillery", Longmans, Green Co, NY (1915), 120 127 3)Marshall 1(1917), 18-19 4)Anon, "History of Trench Warfare Materiel , Army Ordnance Pamphlet(l920)(available at PicArsn Museum) 5) J.H. Wallace, "The Field Artillery Journal, March-April 1932,pp 201-5 (available at PicArsn Museum) 6)Marshall 3 (1932), 1-2 7)Hayes(1938), 153 85 7a)J.H. 

RFA Royal Field Artillery(Brit) Committee(Brit)... 

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