This study discusses the 1st Division encounter with gas warfare in Cantigny and covers equipment used, types of gases, instruction in warfare, the German version and analyzes the actual attack.
Intended to assist in both candidates and board members with preparation for examination. Contains theoretical and parade and oral subjects of examination for second lieutenants of cavalry, second lieutenants of artillery, second lieutenants of...
This document contains photographs of American Expeditionary Forces in Koblenz, Germany. Soldiers are on horseback, in formations, marching, boxing, riding in vehicles, in a funeral procession, etc.
Address upon the subject of library and course of instruction for a National Guard regiment, delivered by Captain William T. Littebrant, 12th Cavalry, to the officers 1st Regiment Missouri National Guard in Camp of Instruction of National Guard of...
This pamphlet was prepared for the purpose of presenting the announced policies and basic principles of military organization. It gives a brief outline of the general organization of the land forces of the United States, including a theater of war....
Hearings before the General Board of the Navy, 1917, vol. 1 and vol. 2 [personnel of Merchant Marine, naval constructor stocker, memorandum for the General Board, aeronautics, wireless, gunnery, fire control, submarine detection, mines and mining,...
Minutes of Conference of Commandants of General and Special Service Schools held at the War Department at 10:30 a.m., June 30, 1927, pursuant to the following instructions sent to each officer concerned: "Secretary of War directs as necessary...
The lectures contained in this document address the following subjects: camps, bivouacs, and outposts, with modifications required by an Indian terrain; marches, space and time (advanced guards and rear guards- considerations also with regard to...
The object of these bulletins is to present in a simple manner a course embracing the essentials of musketry. In this training, the principle will first be shown by demonstrations, and these will be followed by simple exercises calculated to give a...
In preparation for this study, the plan called for a study on the ground, by a group of selected American and German officers, of the methods of supply of the German First Army during its advance in 1914, through Belgium into France, as the right...
This document details the light and heavy machine guns of the German Armed Forces (firing action, general descriptions, non-recoiling portions, action of mechanism, etc.).
The arrival of the first divisions of the American Expeditionary Forces in France brought the Americans into contact with certain conditions and requirements which had never before been experienced or anticipated. Necessity, therefore, required...
Contains press reviews issued by the Second Section, General Staff, G.H.Q.A.E.F. for October 1, 1918 - June 6, 1919 (enemy, neutral, and Allied press).
[Great Britain War Office, General Staff (Intelligence)]
This manual treats of the attack in position warfare with a limited objective and the offensive battle leading from position warfare to the break-through. The manual equally applies to the methodical counter-attack in the defensive battle. The...
Headings include: Organization of the 2nd Division; Toulon--Rupt--Troyon Sector, March 15 – May 12, 1918; and Second Division northwest of Chateau Thierry- 1 June – 10 July, 1918, etc.
Revised operational plan for the Allied Forces Western Naval Task Force to firmly establish the Fifth Army in positions ashore in the Gulf of Salerno and will support its advance to capture Naples and adjacent airfields.
A combined airborne-troop carrier maneuver was conducted in the North Carolina maneuver area in the general vicinity of Camp Mackall, North Carolina during the period of 5 January 1944 to 9 January 1944, inclusive.