ARTILLERY DUELS
WITH AIR SPOTTERS
DESERT WARFARE PHASE
N.Z.13.F. Official War Correspondent WESTERN DESERT, August 20. Air co-operation in silencing opposing batteries, a new experience for New Zealand artillery, has been used with success during the present phase of this desert campaign. It is a phase of comparatively stationarv warfare, when the guns on both sides are dug in. and carefully concealed. When an enemy battery is located it is difficult from the ground to observe results of counter-fire, but with a plane to act as a spotter the greatest accuracy is now possible, bmoke shells give the hovering plane an indication of the enemy battery's position and range. Our guns' spotter plane has a strong fighter escort during the operation which, when all the guns available in that position are brought to bear, usually takes about 15 minutes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 198, 22 August 1942, Page 6
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