John Breed, Diary and Training diary, item 142

• April 2, 2017 03:47:00 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Section Control

       When a new target is to be engaged, but

  it is desired to keep up the fuze on the old one, one section

  of the battery may be detailed for the latter purpose.

  
  

  Or if two targets appear simultaneously, a section may be

  detailed to engage one of them. The order is "(Right)

  Section, Section Control," and the section commander becomes

  for the moment independent, and directs the fire of his

  section himself

  
  

  Moving Targets
  

       Small rapid-moving targets such as patrols

  are rarely worth powder and shot. The usual moving target

  is infantry advancing in scattered formation, artillery and

  cavalry may sometimes be caught on the move

  The corrector must first have been found, otherwise there is

  little chance of producing effect.

  An infantry advancing in scattered formation, or intermittently

  visible during during their advance a long bracket of 300 or

  600 yards is found and searched from end to end

  
  

• April 2, 2017 03:45:02 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Section Control

       When a new target is to be engaged, but

  it is desired to keep up the fuze on the old one, one section

  of the battery may be detailed for the latter purpose.

  
  

  Or if two targets appear simultaneously, a section may be

  detailed to engage one of them. The order is "(Right)

  Section, Section Control," and the section commander becomes

  for the moment independent, and directs the fire of his

  section himself

  
  

  Moving Targets
  

       Small rapid-moving targets such as patrols

  are rarely worth powder and shot. The usual moving target

  is infantry advancing in scattered formation, artillery and

  
  

  
  

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• April 2, 2017 03:40:33 Cheryl Ellsworth

  Section Control

       When a new target is to be engaged, but

  it is desired to keep up the fuze on the old one, one section

  of the battery may be detailed for the latter purpose.

  
  

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