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NEAR THE TOP OF THE SLOPE THE PERSONNEL OF THE EXPEDITION IN THE CENTRE OF THE FRONT ROW, KING PINATUBO, WHO WAS BROUGHT DOWN CAPTIVE FROM THE SUMMIT.
GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN watched them warily and threw their weight about with care. Bones are brittle and two hundredweight of steel not to be trifled with. In time they came to a place where the luxuriant vegetation surged like a green sea against a grim face of rock, which rose sheer for sixty feet. The men contemplated it with respect. Here was the mountain's main line of defense. They began to go to and fro, busily searching for a weak spot in the ramparts. But the mountain had built well. The cliff was a majestic girdle encircling its waist. It frowned like the implacable battlements of a fortress. But the men persevered in looking for an Achilles' heel. Finally one of them crept up a crevice like a chimney flue, choked with boulders and detritus. When the boulders had been levered out, they set about the construction of another ladder. This fitted tightly in the crevice, conforming precisely to it. When it was finished, it lay as if it had grown in place, curving to the right and then to the left, running upward for eighty feet as high as a five-story building. When they had finished this, the men commenced to escort the guns. These hung helplessly like giant fish at the end of a rope, two men ascending with them. Now and then a gun seemed to resent its undignified position. It swung quickly in an endeavor to knock the men off the ladder. The men watched keenly and evaded these attacks. When the gun had swung back they patiently renewed their task of guiding it, calmly humoring the caprices of their charges. It continued to rain. Why were these men there? It is a strange paradox that the fighting man is encouraged and repressed at the same time. He sometimes feels bewildered just as a small boy who, confronted with a fracas, reflects that he will be spanked equally for getting into a fight or for running away. It is not seldom the case that one may find the best fighters in the guardhouse for fighting. The recruit joins the army for adventure and to see the world. In the morning on the parade ground, he thrusts his bayonet fiercely through a sack of straw. This is adventure. In the afternoon, he is handed a shovel, put on fatigue and is afforded the opportunity to see the world, a shovelful at a time. The subaltern is carefully schooled in combat formations and concealment. He is then made to keep his platoon on a naked parade ground within earshot of the orderly room. He ultimately inclines to do his campaigning with a typewriter in numbered indorsements. He learns to remain quietly on the picket line at all times. What is remarkable is that the combative instinct survives, but 457
Page 1 and 2: CONTENTS No. 5 The First Gun on Pin
Page 3 and 4: THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL VOL. XV
Page 5 and 6: GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN There is a cer
Page 7 and 8: GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN Some years bef
Page 9 and 10: THE COLUMN ON THE CHINA SEA TRAIL C
Page 11 and 12: GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN The sun was sh
Page 13 and 14: GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN eternity on th
Page 15: THE THIRD LADDER WAS EIGHTY FEET HI
Page 19 and 20: GUNS ON THE MOUNTAIN was all that c
Page 21 and 22: A FABLE BY LIEUTENANT J. L. CHAMBER
Page 23 and 24: A FABLE "Now, where are you located
Page 25 and 26: WITH A JAPANESE ARTILLERY REGIMENT
Page 27 and 28: RECRUIT FOOT-DRILL A BATTALION BARR
Page 33 and 34: DRUMBEATS to America as a playmate
Page 35 and 36: DRUMBEATS anchor chain rose out of
Page 37 and 38: USE OF SIGNAL CORPS TRAINING MANUAL
Page 49 and 50: REPLACEMENT OF ANIMALS IN CAMPAIGN
Page 55 and 56: METHODS OF FIRE DIRECTION The batte
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RECOIL SYSTEMS When the howitzer is
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RECOIL SYSTEMS TROUBLE CHART, 155-M
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COMPARISONS, AGAIN BY CAPTAIN GEORG
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COMPARISONS AGAIN Here was familiar
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COMPARISONS AGAIN conditions as are
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