The English of military communicationsGanoe, William Addleman
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The English of military communications
Ganoe, William Addleman
English language -- Rhetoric; Military orders; United States. Army -- Records and correspondence
_Special 5. In order to draw the fire of the enemy’s artillery
Orders for away from the spot to be raided, a _feint attack_ against
feint the enemy’s position just north of La Boiselle Cemetery
attack— will start 15 minutes after the artillery opens fire.
Appendix
3._ 6. In order that the registration of the objective by the
heavy artillery and Minenwerfer shall not be apparent, on
_Special the morning of the day before the raid—probably the 10th
Orders for April—a feint bombardment of Target-sectors 76-79 will
this bom- be carried out, combined with a mine explosion, _with
bardment— the object of misleading the enemy_. The exact time will
Appendix be fixed beforehand by the artillery commander, Officer
4._ Commanding Ersatz Abteilung, 76th Artillery Regiment.
7. _The machine gun officer_ will arrange that, during
the whole time of the raid, the enemy’s rear trenches in
Target-sectors 76-81 are kept under a constant fire, with
a view to causing him all possible loss, and, at the same
time, to safeguarding our patrol against counter-attacks.
8. _The Officer Commanding 1st Reserve Company, 13th
Pioneer Battalion_, will arrange for a gallery of the
left-hand minefield to be ready charged by the morning
of the day before the raid, and for a gallery of the
right-hand minefield to be ready charged by the evening
of the raid. The former will be sprung at the conclusion
of the feint bombardment, the latter as an introduction
to the feint attack.
From today, the “earth mortars” (_Erdmörser_) will
systematically cut the enemy’s wire opposite the
Blinddarm. On the day before the raid, they will
coöperate with all other close-range weapons to assist
in the feint bombardment of Target-sectors 76-78. On the
evening of the raid, they will assist in the feint attack
by bombarding Target-sectors 76 and 77 (_see_ Appendices
3 and 4).
Throughout the raid, the “_Albrecht-Mörser_,” in position
on the Lehmgrubenhöhe, will heavily bombard the enemy’s
trenches in the Nordrondell. Particular care will be
taken that the enemy’s machine guns do not interfere with
the raid from that quarter (_see_ Appendix 1).
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