When German prisoners of war were interrogated across the Western Front in World War Two, they kept returning to the same subject, not the tanks or the fighter bombers, but American artillery. This full length World War Two documentary explores why the soldiers of one of history's finest artillery traditions came out of the fighting in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge unable to stop talking about the enemy's guns. The answer had almost nothing to do with the guns themselves. It reached back to a small, underfunded schoolhouse at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the lean years between the wars, where a handful of United States Army officers invented the fire direction center, a way of massing dozens of batteries on a single point in minutes at the word of one forward observer with a radio. Through the story of Time on Target fire, the Piper Cub air observers, the proximity fuze first unleashed at Elsenborn Ridge, and the stand on Hill three fourteen at Mortain, this video reveals how a system, not a weapon, gave the American field artillery its reputation as the king of battle and left the German army with a problem it could neither answer nor forget. If you enjoy World War Two history, military history documentaries, and long form narrated stories of the war, subscribe for more. Chapters, sources, and further reading below.