Field ArTillery - US Army Center Of Military History

390 The OrganizaTiOnal hisTOry Of field arTillery
School of Application for Cavalry and Light
Artillery, 102. See also Mounted
Service School; School of Instruction
for Cavalry and Light Artillery; School
of Instruction for Light Artillery.
School of Fire for Field Artillery, 102, 104,
111. See also Artillery School; Field
Artillery School; Forts, Sill.
School of Instruction for Cavalry and Light
Artillery, 84, 102. See also Mounted
Service School; School of Application
for Cavalry and Light Artillery; School
of Instruction for Light Artillery.
School of Instruction for Light Artillery, 77,
84. See also Mounted Service School;
School of Application for Cavalry and
Light Artillery; School of Instruction
for Cavalry and Light Artillery.
School of Practice. See Artillery School of
Practice.
Scott, Maj. Gen. Winfield, 40, 44, 46, 48, 77
Seacoast artillery. See Coast artillery; Coastal
defense.
Search and destroy armor munitions
(SADARM). See under Ammunition.
Searchlights. See Battlefield illumination.
Second Seminole War, 34, 38, 48
Self-propelled weapons. See also Mechanization.
for armored divisions, 165, 259
Artillery conference recommendations for, 189
cruising range, 288n9
emplacement and firing times, 261
for infantry divisions, 190, 258
in infantry howitzer company, 163
for mechanized divisions, 259
Sensors, 282, 287
“Serenade” controlled by radio, 186
Sergeant. See under Missiles.
Service batteries, motorization of, 136
Seven Years War, 24
Shafter, Maj. Gen. William R., 88
Shays, Daniel, 19
Shays’s Rebellion, 19, 20
“Shell rep” analysis, 180, 185
Shells. See under Ammunition.
Shepard, Comdr. Alan B., Jr., 220
Sheridan, General of the Army Philip H., 77
Sherman, General of the Army William T., 77
Shiloh campaign, 62
“Shoot ’n scoot,” 231, 312. See also Tactics.
Shrapnel. See under Ammunition.
Sibert, 1st Lt. E. L., 151
Sicily, 184
Seige artillery units, 88, 90, 92, 100, 101
Siege warfare, 273
lessons of Mexican War, 46
Louisbourg, 4
Maastricht, 15
Petersburg, 67
and rifled artillery, 71
train, 44, 58, 88, 103
Vauban develops techniques, 14–15
Vera Cruz, 44
Yorktown, 14–15
Siege weapons, 10, 13, 15, 24, 37, 81, 84,
85, 88, 101, 103. See also Guns;
Howitzers; Mortars.
Sights, 12, 78, 95, 300, 322
on 3-inch field gun, 99
for 7-inch howitzer, 85
on 75-mm. gun, 96
and indirect fire, 97
panoramic, 96, 99, 116, 172
on tank destroyers, 172
telescopic, 79, 81
Signal Corps, 122
Smokeless powder, 85, 89–90
Smoothbore artillery
in Civil War, 53, 72
in Revolutionary War, 10
and rifled artillery, 37, 69, 71, 78
Snow, Maj. Gen. William, 117–18, 133, 149
Solid shot. See under Ammunition.
Somalia, 317
Sougé, France, 118
Sound ranging, 115, 122, 141, 143, 180, 181,
184, 194. See also Target acquisition.
developed by France and Great Britain, 150
in Vietnam, 281–82
South Carolina Militia, 3n2
South Carolina Regiment, 4th, 8
Southern Division, U.S. Army, 32
Southern European Task Force, 220, 221
Southwest Asia campaigns, 312–13, 317.
See also Operations, De s e r t sh i e l D,
De s e r t st o r m.
Soviet Union, 239
air defense of, 299
artillery of, 209, 286, 288, 290, 296, 310
collapse of, 242, 311, 316
invasion of Afghanistan, 307
and Korean War, 195, 206
launches Sputnik I, 219
missiles of, 218, 219
nuclear parity, 242
signs INF Treaty, 240
tactical doctrine, 225
tanks of, 285, 286