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Colt Ward

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Re: Talk To Me About: Force Strucutre
« Reply #30 on: 15 October 2014, 02:04:02 »
Honestly, depends on the timeframe and caliber of the artillery.  Some have 6 guns but others have 9- from what I understand in the early 90s MLRS had 9 guns in the battery but it was reduced to 6 because it was overkill.
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Re: Talk To Me About: Force Strucutre
« Reply #31 on: 15 October 2014, 18:56:31 »
How many guns in each battery? I am going to take a guess and say... 6.
Nope 4 guns in all field batterys, the trench mortar battery has 12 guns though.

The late 1917 division had 48x3 inch guns and 24x 6 inch howitzers, the earlier division had 48x 3 inch guns (M1902) and 24x 3.8 inch (M1908) Howitzers (bother are rather obscure weapons particularly the latter), while both adopted, we ended up using other weapons...

here's the 14 regiment Division of 1917 ToE by the way

An older 1914 one

Here's one OOB for the US army in 1918 including a ToE of the Division
Though supposedly the company strength was supposed to be around 250 men

this source has a extensive listing
http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/nafziger/index.asp
you would be looking for the 914xxxx - 919xxxx or latter (basically take the year and chop the first digit off)
F= French
B= British
G= German
R= Russia
U= United States

this post has a listing of what the ww2 era ones are
http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?s=3b48b8ea2fb37bb01e21e06d05c118a9&showtopic=188544#entry1842875

German OOB for 1914
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfgarmy.htm
A different view, this being a corps level overview Note a German corps of 1914 had 144 guns and 16 howitzers, 36 of the guns where 105mm and the howitzers being 149mm the other 108 guns where 77mm, compared to a french corps which just had only 120x 75mm guns.

The heavier guns allowed the Germans to make up for the better french guns, and is why the Germans generally beat the French in the early days.

some info on the french divisions of 1914
http://www.151ril.com/content/history/french-army/6

The Russians where similar to every one else but they had 4 battalion regiments (vs 3) and IIRC they only had 6 battery's of 8 guns each per division in the 76mm range.

 

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