King of Battle: A Branch History of the U.S. Army's Field Artillery

Abstract

The Table of Contents reads as follows: Chapter I -- Birth Pains: 1775-1783; Chapter II -- Field Artillery and the New Nation: 1784-1815; Chapter III -- Developing a Field Artillery System: 1815-1861; Chapter IV -- Field Artillery in the Civil War: 1861-1865; Chapter V -- Towards a New Field Artillery: 1865-1898; Chapter VI -- More Modernization: 1898-1918; Chapter VII -- The Interwar Years: 1919-1939; Chapter VIII -- Field Artillery in World War II: 1939-1945; Chapter IX -- Cold War Years: 1945-1954; Chapter X -- From the Pentomic to the Heavy Division 1955-1980; and Epilogue -- Field Artillery of the 1980s.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA252238

Entities

People

  • Boyd L. Dastrup

Organizations

  • United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Artillery Ammunition
  • Artillery Tactics
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Geography
  • Gun Support Equipment
  • Military History
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Ordnance Laboratories
  • Personnel Management
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Second World War
  • Self Propelled Guns
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Military Science