Identifier: germanysfighting00hend (find matches)
Title: Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Germany. Heer Germany. Kriegsmarine World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Covered Field Artillery

THE ARMY 47


that some of the guns can shoot five and six miles, the
necessity of this will be apparent.
For storming fortifications there are special heavy
siege guns. A modern fortress is something very dif-
ferent from a medieval or even from an early nine-
teenth century one. The old city walls, however solidly
built, are now regarded as mere pleasant bits of an-
tiquity, and in dozens of German towns have been razed
to the ground and converted into rings or boulevards. So
in the city of Cologne, in Ulm. In their place we now
have groups of sunken guns, of protected batteries and
of underground bomb-proof rooms with walls of re-
inforced concrete twelve and fifteen feet thick. Here
and there armored turrets project a few feet above the
ground. Some of the rooms are large enough for a
whole company of infantry.

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