Contains outlines for various courses taught during 1949-1950 at The Artillery School, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

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UTM referencing system --Firing charts, map data, use of tabular firing tables -- Mission of characteristics of artillery fire; elementary ballistics and dispersion -- Artillery ammunition, characteristics, selection of proper projectile and fuze; attack of targets -- Fundamentals of artillery fire -- Corrections and terms, computation of initial data, the initial fire request and information sent to observer, basic concepts and function of the target grid -- Illustrative problem -- Precision fire -- Plotting, measuring ranges and Y-azimuths -- Grid systems and plotting -- Plotting equipment - plotting -- Determination of map data; use of firing tables -- Graphical site table (GST) -- GFT and GST -- Determination of data from firing chart -- Determination of range and time correction by registration-- Deflection index and deflection correction scale -- Check list for the solution of CI or HB adjustments -- Computation of metro message -- Metro corrections, GFT setting and deflection correction scale -- Determination and application of VE and DF correction -- Instruction writ -- Sighting and laying equipment -- Barrel and breech assemblies, general -- Recoil mechanism - general -- Artillery carriages - general -- Tube evaluation -- Heavy artillery, general -- Ammunition - identification, care and handling, packing, storage and transportation -- 75mm pack howitzer M1A1 -- Maintenance responsibilities -- Ammunition, general -- The 105-mm howitzer recoil mechanism -- Barrel, breech, and firing mechanism, 105MM howitzer -- Standard nomenclature lists -- 4.5-inch multiple rocket launchers -- Inspections of artillery weapons and principles of preventative maintenance -- Sight tests and adjustments, 105-MM howitzer -- Barrel and breech 155-MM howitzer M1 -- Carriage - elevating and traversing mechanism, 105MM howitzer -- Carriage, elevating and traversing mechanism, 155-MM howitzer -- Recoil mechanism 155-MM howitzer M1 -- Radio set AN/GRC-9 description, tuning and operation -- Supply, maintenance and repair procedures -- Command inspection of communication equipment -- Wire splices, ties, and crossings -- Switchboard BD-95, Telephone Central TC-4 -- Remote control equipment RC-289 and RC-261 -- Radio set SCR-619 description and operation -- Capabilities and limitations of frequency modulated radio sets -- Simplex and phantom circuits -- Communication equipment of artillery units: characteristics, component parts and operation -- Firing battery communication systems -- Introduction to communication -- Communication systems of the field artillery battery -- Field artillery battalion command post communication -- Communication systems of the direct support field artillery battalion of an infantry division -- Wire and radio nets of the liaison and forward observer sections -- Communication systems of the direct support armored field artillery battalion -- Field artillery battalion communication in operation -- Communication systems of general support field artillery battalions -- AAA automatic weapons battalion, self-propelled radio and wire nets -- AAA brigade, AAA group, and AAA operations detachment communication system -- Radio nets of the AAA gun battalion -- Radio nets of the AAA automatic weapons battalion (MBL) -- Wire systems and AAOR of the gun and AW battalion -- Infantry division artillery communication systems -- Airborne artillery communication -- Communication systems of the infantry-tank artillery team -- Radiotelephone procedure, conduct of fire -- Radiotelephone procedure - conduct of fire, table net -- Radiotelephone procedure: antiaircraft artillery radar reporting net and antiaircraft artillery intelligence service net operation -- Traffic diagram and line route map -- Converter M-209 -- Introduction to fire control -- HCO duties -- VCO duties -- Duties of the computer -- Fire direction team drill -- Duties of FDC personnel in handling precision fire, time registration -- Precision missions -- Review and use of logarithms -- Calculation of Y-azimuth, distance, and coordinates -- Introduction to field artillery survey -- Traverse operations and field notes -- Fundamentals in computation of a traverse -- Traverse, use of computation form, adjusting a traverse -- Aiming circle traverse -- Triangulation, resection, and determining altitudes -- Triangulation and solution of the oblique triangle -- Calculation of Y-azimuths, distance, and base angles -- Operations and computations involved in a target area survey -- Use of military slide rule in multiplication, division, including trigonometric functions -- Use of the military slide rule in survey -- Review of all types of survey computations -- Determination and application of special corrections including calibration corrections -- Prearranged fires, section data sheet, recorder's sheet.