This report covers the activities of Combat Team Twenty-Five, of the 4th Marine Division, during the Iwo Jima Operation, from inception to conclusion. Including planning and preparation, ship movements, landing assault, operation narrative, attack...
Reports on the operations of the 82nd Airborne Division from October 1943 to the end of May 1945. The reports include after action reports of operations in ltaly and Germany including battle maps, list of personnel, and the surrender of German...
This report describes the 2nd Armored Division's limited objective attack from 16 to 28 November, 1944 in the Roer River offensive against a grimly defended segment of the Siegfried Line. Original does not have page 29 either, text appears...
These are the procedures for the preparation of units for overseas duty, including the process prior to the movement of the unit to the staging area, final inspection by the port authroities, and the filling of the last minute shortages.
This report constitutes a study of German technical assistance to the Japanese war effort. The study is based on all available intelligence material drawn from all sources. It includes air and land armaments, electronics, manufacturing processes,...
This report "contains all pertinent information concerning the Navy of the U.S.S.R. available in the Division of Naval Intelligence. It covers the organization of the Soviet Navy, naval policy, personnel, tactics and operations, naval ordnance, an...
Series of reports on the clearing of an area between the Maas River and the Roer River in Germany by the Brittish 21st Army Group. It contains a narrative, mission planning, reports on enemy defenses, operational instructions, and a report on the...
This manual supersedes FM 100-5, 1944.It contains the doctrines of leading troops in combat and the tactics of the combined arms. It constitutes the basis of instruction of all arms and services for field service. Appendix includes index, a...
This manual outlines the sphere of Army investigational jurisdiction, the types of counter intelligence investigations and the control thereof, and the procedures to be employed by intelligence personnel, outlines counter intelligence operations...
This document on technique of army training summarized the best practices of training methods as developed by war experience. Sections I to VII define the essential elements of a sound training program and the procedures for producing the...
This pamphlet provides instructions for defensive actions for large combat units, discussing artillery, aviation, infantry, anti-aircraft defense, gas companies, mines, raids, local attacks.
This manual supersedes the 1939 version. The 1941 edition of FM 100-5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. This is the doctrine the Army took into the great Louisiana maneuvers of 1941. Later,...
FM 100-5, Field Service Regulations, Operations, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It contains the doctrines of leading troops in combat and tactics of the combined arms and constitutes the basis of instruction of all...
This manual is based upon the basic principles laid down in the Landing Operation Doctrine, U.S. Navy, (FTP 167), the Ship to Shore Movement (FTP 211), the Transport Doctrine, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and the results of experiences...
Operations manual covering organization, arms and services, the exercise of command, combat intelligence, reconnaissance and counterintelligence, security, troop movements special operations, airborne operations and lessons of the Pearl Harbor...
Discusses the modern battlefield, the enemy in modern battle, preparing for combat operations, movement techniques, reconnaissance, security operations, combat support, combat service support and operations in active nuclear conditions.
This field service document is broken down into three categories: organization, operations (information, security, orders, marches and convoys, combat, shelter), and administration (service of the interior, service of the theater of operations,...
Establishes the Department of the Army Productivity Improvement Program (DAPP). Implements Department of Defense Directive 5010.31, Productivity Enhancement, Measurement, and Evaluation--Policies and Responsibilities, and Department of Defense...
Contains amendments to part I and begins at chapter five. Covers defensive combat, field fortifications, marches, shelter, service of security, special operations and ceremonies and inspections. Also contains manuals for the color, the band, the...