Battle Artillery

World War II had many battles in it. Each battle Artillery was always a key factor whether defending or taking the offensive. One of the Battles, was the Battle of the Bulge. It really paved the way for how modern artillery is conducted. Artillery tactics were improvised and pushed to send rounds down range and eliminate the enemy in extreme conditions and terrain never before implemented on the battle field. During World War II the Battle of the Bulge became a huge factor in new developments and techniques, and incorporating munitions that we use in today’s modern artillery. Techniques such as Time on Target missions, Observer teams, Fires Direction Center was also refined thus changing the artillery tactics and techniques.

In December

The war was going south for the Nazi’s and Hitler had to improvise a new offensive to push back the Allies. The battle took over a month of fighting in the dead of winter. Artillery was a very important piece in the winning of the battle. Countless times fire missions came down and eliminating the enemy assaults, providing counter attacks and key positions of movement up the line. Artillery on the German side was consistent fire missions on the Allie’s positions disrupting supply lines and creating havoc on the Ally front. The Germans used survivability moves with batteries, causing devastating losses to the Allies. Boresight was a big important step in positioning the howitzers on the battlefield. It gave the Gun crews to capability of using direct fire on the approaching enemy, which was used very frequently during the battle. Towed howitzers were key in offense and defense in the battle. During the weather with frozen mud and elements of terrain made artillery easy targets for both sides positioned and in transport. Most of the guns were fired upon and fired on due to terrain, both sides had large amounts of artillery fire power to knock out enemy guns. Track vehicles were easy to trace and eliminated adding obstacles on the terrain. The increasing devastation to the land changed the terrain and was hard to maneuver around in both track and towed howitzers and easy targets on both sides of the battle. Transporting ammo was a big factor in how effective the howitzers were in the battle. Difficulty in the supply lines to move ammunition to the gun line was a battle in its