302nd Field Art.
I will provide the following from: The 302nd Field Artillery, 1919, (76th Div. AEF). I quickly found a few passages from the Battery History. (p.61) Upon arriving at Bordeaux...This time it was to organize as a motorized "4.7" rifle regiment,...twenty-four "4.7" arrived and the regiment started to master the operation.[9/5/18] (p.64) [10/5/18] [at the training range in France] "the 4.7's firing at the slower rate of two shots per minutes. For twenty minutes the roar was continuous". (p.68) "From all available reports, no shells for the 4.7 had arrived in France, though the supply of shrapnel was sufficient to meet the demands..." (p.72) The second of November [1918] saw all the organizations arrive in Rupt-en-Woevre,... (p.82) "Although the regiment as a unit was not completely in position...the second Battalion fired the first shot of the regiment at the Hun on the tick of midnight, November 6".[1918] "there was a flash, followed by a roar, and the projectile rushed of on its errand. The first shot of the regiment was on its way;...not only of the regiment, but the first shot ever fired at the Germans by American-made Field Artillery." They had to move again and were in place again on 11/11/18. They did not fire many more rounds. There is also a photo of a 4.7" hitched to a 10-ton Holt tractor, the guns prime mover. Enough of this information.
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