Artillery battery

Vietnam War Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a commitment of 30 military advisors which was later increased to about 7,000 over a decade. Australia’s commitment was increased because of the Menzies government’s decision in 1965 to try and protect South Vietnam. Australia’s commitment was due to the alliance with the USA under the ANZUS treaty. The Australian troops were based in Vung Tau but undertook missions throughout the Phuoc Tuy province. Australians involvement in…

during college, he became a part of the patriot volunteer band known as the “Corsicans” - they drilled every morning before classes. On March 14th, 1776, he was commissioned captain of a company of artillery set by the New York Provincial Congress. While at White Plains in October of 1776, his battery guarded Chatterton’s Hill and protected the withdrawal of William Smallwood’s militia. Impressed by his heroics, General George Washington, promoted to Lieutenant Coronel and became a part of…

This dirt pulled from the Rodriguez Canal would be used to make a wall that stretched a quarter of a mile long, and was an impressive 8 feet high and twelve feet thick. This would be known as Line Jackson and would be equipped with eight different batteries. So the mud work was essentially turning into a thing of masterful firepower. Jackson would also send men to the West bank to establish cannon pulled from the warship USS…

craft opening only to have entire groups of soldiers mowed down in machine gun fire before ever leaving the craft. A veritable bullet storm covers the beach, flying every direction. Explosions rock the shores over and again: mortars, field artillery, shore batteries and defense-softening charges to remove barbwire and crew-served weapon entrenchments. But the Allies must push forward, if not for their lives then for the lives of the comrades and their loved ones. The first hour crawls by for the…

Persistently Confederate counterattacks would crumple in the close-range canister fired by those guns, but the cannons and those across Antietam Creek poured long-range fire into the Confederate positions. The Battle of Antietam became known as "Artillery Hell." A collective total of 500 guns fired from small rises with many long lines of sight. Rocky cliffs throughout the battlefield however caused bullets from their weapons to ricochet uncontrollably. For a time, the Union troops made…

He worked as a laborer in Masachusetts, Swampscott and later entered the army October 4, 1917. He also worked as private with Battery E and 320th field Artillery. Antonio had immigrated to Massachusetts in 1913 at seventeen years old. Like a huge number of different outsiders in the principal many years of the twentieth century, he went through Ellis Island, moved in with relatives who had preceded…

“As attacks inevitably bogged down, the Allies relied increasingly on artillery and air support. It was a battle of attribution, which the Allies with their vast superiority in men and material were bound to win.” (Carter) By December, WWII would not be over, but D-Day made a really powerful opening. It had led to France’s liberation…

The Battle of Antietam began on September 17th, 1862 and ended on the same day. The commander of the Union army was George B. McClellan and the commander of the Confederate army was Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee, the general of the confederacy, attempted to make a final stand in an attempt to save his Maryland Campaign. Many Federal Forces were closing in from the east. Lee at that time selected the strategic ground near Antietam Creek and demanded his army to unite there. About a mile east of…

chaos as the landing craft and ships approached the shoreline. "The beach was almost invisible behind the smoke of gunfire and bombs and the dust of the churned up sand" (Edwards 38). But the troops drove on towards the shore as mines and enemy artillery exploded about them. At Juno beach, the Canadian divisions landed and set out. 20 out of 24 crafts were blown up in the water and there was excessive gunfire. They bravely managed to acquire the villages of Courselles and Bierweres. However,…

In the overwhelming nonfiction journal Zinky Boys written by Svetlana Alexievich, a series of conflicts have happened in Communist Russia. Svetlana Alexievich provides the reader with many testimonies of betrayal of the young men, women and the mothers of soldiers by the Motherland, the people of Russia and the government. Throughout the story of Zinky Boys the sense of betrayal is the central focus of the testimonies and it demonstrates the importance of one’s international duty. Expanding on…