Artillery

Artillery (from French artillerie) refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. The term also describes ground-based troops with the primary function of manning such weapons.

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• Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
  • Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944)

• Soldiers, brave guys, and who are your wives?
  Our wives are our loaded cannons, that's what our wives.
  • Traditional Russian soldiers song. [1]

• If you have two hundred guns per kilometer of the front, do not ask about the enemy.
  • Marshal Kirill Moskalenko, [2]

• "The poorer the infantry, the more artillery it needs; the American infantry needs all it can get."
  • French General Koechlin-Schwartz, speaking to U.S. General George S. Patton on two occasions. "The Patton Papers, 1940-1945"; George Smith Patton, Martin Blumenson; Houghton Mifflin (1972); pp.520-521

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• Artillery Quotes