Allied Artillery of World War Two

Artillery had entered the war in 1914 as a small auxiliary to the field army, supported by an even smaller 'siege train'. They had ended it as a major component of every army - it has been estimated that, at one stage of the war, one-third of all the troops embroiled in the lighting were gunners — armed with a eolossal armoury of artillery of types not even contemplated four short years before. They had begun the war. in many eases, by firing over open sights al charging cavalry, in the best traditions of the Peninsular War. and ended it using aerial observation, predicted fire, fire-plans of immense complexity, meteorological corrections, and self-propelled guns on tracked mountings. With the end of the First World War, it was time to take stock and analyse what had been learned.
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