Excerpt from German Notes on Minor Tactics
The appended translation of an order, dated February 7,1917, found at the front of the army shows that the Germans then considered special antiaircraft pieces insufficient for combat against enemy airplanes in case of important operations, and had considered using barrage batteries for repulsing low-flying infantry airplanes.
This order prescribed the initial training for "aerial barrage." The result of the experiment is unknown.
It is not impossible that during the next offensive the enemy will attack our infantry in their trenches with so large a number of aircraft that it will be necessary to combat them not only with the. special antiaircraft batteries but also with a part of the barrage batteries.
In general, buried or casemated batteries will be used against enemy airplanes flying above their respective barrage areas. In short, momentarily they will have to project aerial barrages.
Fire against airplanes should be conducted in the simplest possible fashion. The distance separating the battery from the most advanced trench should be taken as range, always supposing the direction of flight to be perpendicular to the direction of the barrage fire. Direct laying should be used when possible. If not, the laying-in direction should be that of the barrage fire and should sweep the zone of the barrage fire.
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