Semaphore reports all but one of our forward observers has come back in, ma'am.
But now confusion set in: Turkish shells cut telephone wires, two forward observers were wounded, and a dust storm blew up.
After being pinned down most of the morning, the infantry unit and the forward observer for the artillery advanced shortly before noon, meeting machine-gun fire.
There are some Wolves with the forward observers".
A forward observer watched from the base, prepared to provide mortar fire.
Classes were begun for mortar crews and the forward observers who would accompany the patrols to direct the supporting fire with greater accuracy.
The forward observers have picked up Reich troop movement all around the camp, still three, four thousand meters away.
So they listened to the forward observers in Metis, and to the terse communications from the advancing army.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. the battalion received word from the forward observers that they had received enemy prisoners of war.
That is the job of their forward observers.