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The Boy Volunteers with the British Artillery

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Two American youths who served earlier with aviation recover in a hospital and then join a British artillery unit, experiencing frontline life and heavy-gun warfare. The narrative follows their training and observation duties, descriptions of artillery pieces and trajectories, reconnaissance of shelled battlefields and trenches, a lively camp behind the lines, encounters with spies and legal measures against espionage, and a hazardous expedition that uncovers an enemy range-finder and battery, culminating in a fierce counterattack. Illustrative technical explanations and line drawings accompany accounts of gun deployment, signaling from aircraft, and the tactics of observation and artillery fire.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"At them, boys!" shrieked the Corporal Frontispiece
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Method of Signaling from Airplanes 53
Peculiarities of Trajectories 56
Peculiarities of Trajectories 57
The Deadly Shrapnel Shell 68
The Spy's Account Book 91
Pontooning Heavy Guns Across a Stream 101
A German Range-Finder 118
Arrangement of Guns on Hill 203 138

THE BOY VOLUNTEERS
WITH THE BRITISH
ARTILLERY