Contents of this field manual include: organization and staff officers; characteristics of guns and accessories; missions; control of fire; communications; employment of AAA guns; employment against ground and naval targets; reconnaissance,...
The primary mission of automatic weapons is to attack all enemy aircraft within range, particularly low flying aircraft to destroy them, cause them to abandon their missions, or to decrease the efficiency of their operations. The following field...
This paper examines the AirLand battle tenet of synchronization and its application to air defense within the corps area of operations. Specifically, this paper addresses the changes occurring in tactical air defense units at corps and division...
Based on the AAA activities of the XII Corps, 3rd U.S. Army, 1 August 1944 to 8 May 1945. The XII Corps entered combat just east of Lemands, France, and ended the war at Linz, Austria. It was engaged in various types of missions, such as break...
The purpose of this study was to determine whether an Australian Army Association (AAA) should be established. This study determined that an AAA should be established in order to capitalize on a unique alignment of circumstances and to set the...
Report of enemy aircraft activity and engagement with antiaircraft artillery in the ETO for the period 1 Nov. 1944 - 20 June 1945. Reported weekly, nos. 2-35. Also includes rules of engagement and instructions on maintenance of equipment. Volume...
Currently the United States Army does not have a standardized, realistic methodology for determining the correlation of forces (COF). This study investigates this issue by examining different methods currently being used to determine the COF. The...
America’s AF has adopted a strategy that reduces and then modernizes its remaining legacy fleet of combat aircraft. The strategy attempts to free up the necessary funding required to procure a modernized AF with all stealth bombers and fighters....
During Operation Rolling Thunder, the United States Air Force was unprepared for the introduction of the SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile system into the North Vietnamese integrated air defense system (IADS). Following a series of aircraft...
Plan from the joint war plans committee for the seizure of the Ryukyus Islands. It is a revision of J.W.P.C.'s 116/2 plan, which takes into account new information on airfield capabilities and enemy intentions.
This mimeographed manuscript was submitted to the Historical Division, War Department, as required by W.D. Circular 64, 1945. It was prepared to make available an accurate digest of important facts concerning the sixty-one divisions assigned to the...
Task Force 45 was a task force of American and British antiaircraft gunners acting as infantry, with Italian Partisans, Brazilians and African American troops fighting by their side. Explains the organization and committing of TF 45. Gives...
Report of enemy aircraft activity and engagement with antiaircraft artillery in the ETO for the period 1 Nov. 1944 - 20 June 1945. Reported weekly, nos. 2-35. Also includes rules of engagement and instructions on maintenance of equipment. Volume I...
This book is an attempt to summarize the facts of the XIX Corps' achievements in battle, and at the same time provide a running background of incident, and description which try to give the details of a few things that had to be done and be done...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Series of reports detailing the progress of the invasion of the Philippine Islands. Includes intelligence reports, G-3 operations reports, field orders, and memoranda.
“The purpose of V Corps operational plan NEPTUNE is to provide a basis for the V Corps participation in an amphibious attack of the continent of Europe. The instructions contained herein will be complied with by subordinate commandersâ€
This study investigates whether the Air Defense Artillery Battalion, organic to the Army of Excellence Heavy Division (Armored or Mechanized), furnishes viable support in the context of FM 100-5, Operations and FM 44-1 Air Defense Artillery, and...