Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare: (Illustrated Edition)

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The following Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare are published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
 

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Title: Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare

Author: Anonymous

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Language: English

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NOTES

ON

TRAINING FOR RIFLE FIRE IN TRENCH WARFARE

COMPILED FROM FOREIGN REPORTS

ARMY WAR COLLEGE

APRIL, 1917

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1917

War Department,

Document No. 573.

Office of The Adjutant General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, April 24, 1917.

The following Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare are published for the information and guidance of all concerned.

[2582933, A. G. O.]

By Order of the Secretary of War:

H. L. SCOTT,

Major General, Chief of Staff.

Official:

H. P. McCAIN,

The Adjutant General.

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TRAINING IN THE USE OF THE RIFLE FOR TRENCH WARFARE.

1. Training in the use of the rifle includes that of the bayonet. Fire action is alone treated in this paper, instruction in the use of the bayonet having already been discussed elsewhere.

2. The rifleman in the trenches, no less than in the open, requires as preliminary preparation the courses of individual and combat instruction prescribed in the Small Arms Firing Manual. The object of this paper is not to supersede any portion of this manual, but to supplement it by stressing those features of trench rifle fire that the experience of actual war has shown to be possessed