artillery spotting
11field artillery observer — A person who watches the effects of artillery fire, adjusts the center of impact of that fire onto a target, and reports the results to the firing agency. See also naval gunfire spotting team; spotter …
12naval gunfire spotting team — The unit of a shore fire control party that designates targets; controls commencement, cessation, rate, and types of fire; and spots fire on the target. See also field artillery observer; spotter …
13Royal Flying Corps — For the computer game, see Flying Corps. Royal Flying Corps …
14VMO-2 — Marine Observation Squadron 2 VMO 2 insignia Active 1 Nov 1943 – 26 August 1946 15 June 1951 23 March 1971 30 Sept 1971 – 20 May 1993 …
15Rangekeeper — Rangekeepers were electromechanical fire control computers used primarily during the early part of the 20th century. They were sophisticated analog computers whose development reached its zenith following World War II, specifically the Computer… …
16Battle of Arras (1917) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Arras partof=the Western Front of World War I caption=The Town Square, Arras, France. February, 1919. date=9 April to 16 May, 1917 place=France casus= territory= result=No final breakthrough achieved… …
17Sound ranging — In land warfare, sound ranging is a method of determining the coordinates of a hostile artillery battery using data derived from the sound of its guns (or mortar or rockets) firing. The same methods can also be used to direct artillery fire at a… …
18Observation balloon — An observation balloon being launched from the USS Arizona. This balloon has a two man crew that performed artillery spotting in support of the battleship s main guns …
19Nieuport — For the town of Nieuport in Flanders, see Nieuwpoort (disambiguation). Original colour photo of a Nieuport 17 C.1 fighter of World War I Nieuport, later Nieuport Delage, was a French aeroplane company that primarily built racing aircraft before… …
