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By Joseph E.Kuhn
Отчёт военного наблюдателя, майора инженерного корпуса армии США, находившегося при японской армии во время боевых действий в Манчжурии во время русско-японской войны 1904-1905 года. Рассекречено 14.10.1986 года, по прошествии eighty лет.
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31 The mountain guns, which form about one-third of the Japanese artillery complement, are sighted to 4,300 meters only and have an effective shrapnel range of 3,700 meters. The field gun is ranged to about 5,500 meters with an effective shrapnel range of about 4,500 meters. Contrasting this with the Russian field gun, which is ranged to 6,400 meters and fires a 15-pound shell as against a 11-pound Japanese shell, it will be evident that in the matter of material the Russian artillery had a decided advantage over that of the Japanese.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Individual instruction. Gynmastics. Musketry, preliminary drill. Estimating distances. Firing with reduced charges. fascine Digging, . revetting, and gabion making. Drill in small squads. Rifle practice. Company drill. Bayonet exercises. 11. Packing and loading tools and stores. 12. Construction of field works. 13. Field exercises. 14. Swilmming and rowing. 15. Pontoon and other bridge construction. 16. Battalion drill. 17. Military roads. 18. Construction of redoubts. 19.
Pile driving was done by ringing engines, mounted on rafts, or Chinese junks or Japanese pontoon boats, there having been a total of seven engines, each operated by from 22 to 24 men. Just a year later, while returning from the front, this bridge was observed to have been carried away, probably by the breaking up of the ice in the spring. The photograph herewith shows the bridge in progress of construction. As an example of a pontoon bridge, those crossing the Liao at Hsiao-tatzu and Shihfossu have been selected.