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medium artillery

American  

noun

U.S. Military.
  1. guns and howitzers of caliber more than 105 millimeters and less than 155 millimeters, sometimes including the 155-millimeter howitzers.


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The medium artillery, not having the range of the heavy guns, did not reach so far back with its fire, but demoralized things generally wherever its shells hit.

From In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Trueblood, Edward Alva

It should be added that the amount of heavy artillery included in the Dardanelles Expeditionary Force was negligible, and that the amount of medium artillery was relatively very small.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

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