Soviet Artillery Clearing Minefields

[theck343]

I have seen anecdotal reports of Soviet use of artillery to breach minefields during WW2 and am looking for more information. One of my sources, a Soviet journal article, mentions it was done during WW2 but provides no details. Armin Scheiderbauer mentions it at the outset of the Vistula-Oder offensive in his book 'Adventures in My Youth.' I only have the audiobook and would like to quote the passage in a paper I'm working on.

-Can someone send me the section from 'Adventures in My Youth' about the Soviet artillery clearing minefields?
-Does anyone have other examples of this they can provide?


Thanks.

[Art]

Standard artillery manuals "Rules of gunnery for ground artillery" (1942 and 1945) had several paragraphs on artillery employed to clear minefields. There was also a section on minefield location determined with artillery fire. Not that it looks to be most typical method.

[theck343]

Do you have copies of the 1942/1945 "Rules of gunnery for ground artillery" or can you point to where I could find it? I've searched DTIC and archive.org without success.

Thanks.

[Art]

The 1942 manual is available as a file here, for example:
https://yadi.sk/d/S0vkE2GK3Mh3f4
In Russian naturally. Paragraphs 238-239 deals with artillery making passes in minefields.

[theck343]

I'm having trouble viewing the document. Can you send the title page and paragraphs (with any graphics) in a PDF? Thanks!

[Der Alte Fritz]

It is a Dejavu file so just get a free reader off the web or open it in Abbyy FineReader.
Or if you look on the Yandex site you can actually preview the document on the download page of the website