Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-04-04 | Page 9 | Plan to Retain Artillery Units

PLAN TO RETAIN ARTILLERY UNITS WASHINGTON", April 3. The American Amer-ican army will retain permanently some of the artillery organizations which are an outgrowth of the war. Among these, according to reorganization plans which have been approved, are 155 mm. rifles, the weapons relied upon largely in the cloying days of the war for barrage bar-rage work; 8-inch and 9.2-inch field howitzers; heavy railway guns, including 12-inch, 14-inch and 16-inch mortars, howitzers and rifles; trench mortar units and anti-aircraft batteries, including motorized mo-torized machine-gun units for the purpose pur-pose of protecting troops on the march from attack from the air. In addition to the sixty-one regiments of field artillery provided for in the division divi-sion organizations, there are to be six regiments of army artillery to go with the field army organization to be erected.