This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...dumps; but when corps dumps are stocked the corps ammunition train trucks deliver ammunition from the army ammunition parks direct to division ammunition dumps and in emergencies to battery positions. This may be regulated by the placing of a liaison detachment from each division at the corps ammunition dump. This ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...dumps; but when corps dumps are stocked the corps ammunition train trucks deliver ammunition from the army ammunition parks direct to division ammunition dumps and in emergencies to battery positions. This may be regulated by the placing of a liaison detachment from each division at the corps ammunition dump. This liaison detachment is informed by the division munitions officer of the needs of the division, and upon arrival of corps truck trains at the corps dumps arrangements may be made to place division guides upon the corps truck trains and to forward the trains direct to the division ammunition dumps. When a division munitions officer makes his demand upon the corps munitions officer for ammunition, he is informed as to the amounts he may obtain and where they may be obtained. He is also informed if any of this ammunition will be transported by narrow-gauge railway or by truck transportation of the corps, and how much of the ammunition he must transport by the truck transportation of the division. In warfare of movement, and in active operations of siege warfare the truck transportation of the corps is not sufficient to carry all the ammunition for all the divisions engaged. It is, therefore, necessary for the division ammunition trains to draw a part of their ammunition from army ammunition parks and obtain a part only from corps ammunition dumps. The corps ammunition dump is used as emergency reserve for the units of the corps. The corps artillery commander establishes a minimum below which the stock of the corps dumps should not fall. Therefore, the divisions are allowed to draw only the excess above this minimum until an emergency compels. The corps munitions officer, must, therefore, give careful consideration to the quantities that he permits the...
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