A key all-arms series for artillery was Signal Training All Arms. The edition, a single hardback book, was replaced in be a series of pamphlets, Pam 6 being Procedures for transmitting artillery fire orders. This series was replaced in with a larger series. There were also Working Instructions for all radios.
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Most important for artillery was the Artillery Training AT series, which expanded to 6 volumes each comprising several pamphlets covering all branches. These were required by FSR, and Volume 1 had to be based on and supplement FSR, the other volumes dealt with the more technical aspects of artillery.
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An Artillery Index was issued periodically, it listed the current status of artillery publications and provided a subject index that cross-referenced to all artillery publications. It's perhaps noteworthy that these publications were called 'Artillery Training' AT , they were not 'regulations', although they were issued by Army Council authority. Volumes 1 - 3 and 6 concerned field artillery, Vols 4 and 5 were for AA and Coast artillery. The important field artillery publications were: This volume's pamphlet titles were: Pam 1, ' Training and Drill ', and Replaced by Pam 8, see below.
Transferred to Vol II, see below. Pam 9, ' Anti-tank Tactics ', and Pam 10, ' Employment and Organisation of the Air O. Pam 11, ' Air Defence ', The Pam 2 group being re-numbered from Vol I. Pam 23, ' Deployment of the Air O. Squadron ', and This replaced the version and was the baseline for technical gunnery for the next 13 years, 9 amendments and various supplements were issued as various procedures evolved. It was reprinted in Supplement No 1, ' Lines of Fire: Supplement No 2, ' Programme Shoots: Methods Applicable to Periods of Stabilization: Numbering of Targets' , '.
Replaced by Pam 12, Pam 9, 'Anti-Tank Gunnery' , Pam 12, ' Concentrations of Observed Fire ', Pam 15, ' Upper Register Firing ', Pam 3A, ' Short Base Registration ', Pam 9, ' Computation ', Pam 11, ' Estimation of Calibre from Time of Flight ', These included, although for practical purposes some were superceded by wartime publications: A significant specialised all-arms publication was the Text Book of Ammunition , this provided comprehensive technical details on ammunition of all types including artillery natures.
The ' Handbook of Artillery Instruments and Rangefinders Part 1, ', this comprised physically separate sections for each device, these were loose bound.
Sections were added for each instrument or closely related ones. It replaced the ' Handbook of Artillery Instruments, '.
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To date the following field artillery sections have been identified: Sect 42, ' Recorder, Sound Ranging, No 1 '; Sect 43, ' Comparator, Sound Ranging, Mk 2 '; Both included general purpose and artillery specific items. Range Tables Part 2 provided a wealth of information. The edition was reprinted in and used until a new edition in To commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day, we are launching a new feature, Second World War Day by Day and also a new Library to allow access to records which have previously been held in our offline archive.
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