Sniping in France: With notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers

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The author recounts the emergence and organization of sniping, observation and scouting in France and Flanders, combining frontline memories with systematic instruction. He describes the founding and curriculum of a dedicated training school, practical techniques for camouflage, loopholes, stalking, telescopic and periscopic sights, night work and report procedures, and the adaptation of tactics for allied units. Illustrated examples and appendices supply programmes for observers, care and grouping of arms, range practice and patrol methods. The result is a mixed memoir and handbook that records operational experiences while offering detailed, scientific guidance for training and employing snipers, observers and scouts.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Illustrations were not “descreened” (removal of diagonal, light gray lines) because doing so made them blurry. The topic of the book required them to remain as sharp as practical.