From: "David Johnson", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The coast around Dover was positively bristling with guns!
In the early '50s I lived just along the coast from Dover. There were
batteries of (I think) 6" guns that were still used for practice, firing at
a sort of raft of railway s
From: "David Johnson", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following entry regarding the formation of the Artists Rifles, taken
from the History of the Great War. The period being covered is 1914.
"What proved a valuable experiment was tried about this time by Sir John
French in establish
From: "David Johnson", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
F.W.Mann, in "The Bullets Flight", published in 1909,
looked reported on bullet melting while investigating
the instability of bullets in flight. In his experiments
he place paper screens all down a 100-yard range to
record the traj
