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"The thanks of the infantry, in my opinion, must be treasured more by every artilleryman than all decorations and citations. "
- Colonel Georg Bruchmuller |
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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!
Walt Whitman |
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With Artillery, War is made.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets."
- Unknown |
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"Gunners will always fight together, drink together, laugh together, and morn together."
- Unknown
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Artillery conquers and infantry occupies.
J.F.C. Fuller |
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"There is NO job in the Field Artillery for the weak, the timid or the indecisive."
- Unknown
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God fights on the side with the best artillery.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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"If you don't have enough artillery, quit."
-General Richard Cavasos |
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A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
- General William Tecumseh Sherman
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"If, -after the battle is over, your infantry don't like you, you are a poor artilleryman." Captain Henry Reilly The Field Artillery Journal, September-October 1940 |
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The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.
Field Marshal Montgomery |
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"Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl"
- Frederick the Great |
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"St. Barbara of the Artillery Corp,
Be at the bursting of the doors of doom,
And in the dark deliver us,
Amen."
Irish field Artillery poem
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Artillery is the god of war.
Stalin |
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The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Gen Douglas MacArthur |
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"Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . ."
Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Ultima ratio regum. (The final argument of kings)
- Inscription on french cannons, on order of Louis XIV
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"Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than
the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment."
Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall |
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Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.
Winston Churchill |
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