11. He was forward artillery observer and was seriously wounded on the Teruel Front in August 1937. 12. A U . S . forward artillery observer whose radio and landlines had been cut by shellfire recalled, 13. Lowe also worked as a Forward Artillery Observer ( FAO ) by directing artillery fire via flag signals. 14. Aside from being Airborne Ranger qualified, he has been cross-trained as a forward artillery observer . 15. Its flaw was that the German artillery observers , usually placed in the front line, were also blind. 16. A German forward artillery observer with a radio was captured in Remagen, and artillery fire gradually let up. 17. The artillery observer ( navigator ) managed the SCR-68, receiving and relaying messages for the pilot. 18. On the left hand side we have some artillery observers , a machine gun crew and soldiers launching grenades. 19. These were usually early model tanks with some of their armament removed and replaced by equipment for artillery observers . 20. Not only were no ground troops to be committed, there were not even going to be forward artillery observers .