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[tater]

Someone with better US Army ETO doctrine chops can chime in (since I read mostly PTO, large battles tended to be rooting guys out of caves, not real, maneuver warfare), but I recall reading that the US divisional artillery model was a thing of beauty, allowing small units to call in fearful artillery in an accurate fashion.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by tater

Someone with better US Army ETO doctrine chops can chime in (since I read mostly PTO, large battles tended to be rooting guys out of caves, not real, maneuver warfare), but I recall reading that the US divisional artillery model was a thing of beauty, allowing small units to call in fearful artillery in an accurate fashion.

Pretty much. A complaint of some German survivors (paraphrased) was that whenever they opened up on an advancing American unit, the GIs would just go to ground and get on the radio. Usually within 15 minutes, shells would be falling on the German positions.