William Balck on Field Artillery (II)
Armies of the First World War
This is the second installment of a multipart article. The first part can be found here.
After discussing various ideal structures for the field artillery of infantry divisions, Balck described several instances in which the actual order of battle of particular formations differed from those models. In some of these cases, the distance between theory and practice was modest. In others, it was such that the original artillery establishments of the infantry divisions in question appeared to have been submerged in a sea of attachments.
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