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Battery 234 housed soldiers beneath a vegetated mound who solved the problem of how artillery crews should aim their guns to hit an attacking ship. Working together, soldiers in nearby end towers took simultaneous compass readings of an approaching enemy ship and telephoned the information to the plotting room. There, soldiers plotted a triangle on the table, calculated the distance to the target, and relayed their calculation to the gun crews for precision firing.
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