This text deals specifically with the employment of the antitank units within the infantry division. Since the infantry division is the basic organization of the army, the discussion is based on the principal types of operations in which a division...
The first section of this field manual on antitank company, infantry regiment, covers medical service and evacuation, supply and motor maintenance, marches and bivouacs, offensive and defensive combat, the antitank platoon, antitank squad, and...
"These instructions cover the conduct and analysis of target practices for 37-mm and 40-mm antimotor torpedo boat batteries. These instructions are applicable for the remainder of the year 1942."
The battalion is the basic tactical unit of infantry. It usually operates as an element of the infantry regiment. Its mission is assigned by the regimental commander, and its actions are coordinated with those of other units of the regiment....
This manual deals primarily with the tactical employment of the infantry rifle regiment. The instructions are also applicable in many respects to other types of infantry regiments. The procedures indicated in this manual should be considered as...
The final report of the Third Army maneuvers contains information regarding the organization of the IV Corps, concentration in the Sabine area (Louisiana), Third Army exercises, equipment, communications, supply and logistics, administration,...
The purpose of this manual is to present the practical aspects of the employment of a regimental combat team in an amphibious operation. The document presents the planning, embarkation, and landing and assault phases of an amphibious operation at...
The cannon company of the infantry regiment consists of a company headquarters and three cannon platoons. This field manual addresses supply, medical service, evacuation, marches and bivouacs, and offensive and defensive combat. Two appendixes...
This field manual gives information on the battalion commander and staff, battalion headquarters company, battalion medical section, administration, troop movements and security on the march, bivouacs, the offensive, defense, retrograde movements,...
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
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,...
The following chapter headings are contained in this field manual: marches and bivouac; offensive combat; defense and retrograde movements; caliber .30 machine-gun platoon; caliber .30 machine-gun section and squad; 81-mm mortar platoon; 81-mm...
The courses of instruction presented at the Command and General Staff School during World War II have generally been dismissed as expedients, whose purpose was the production of large quantities of graduates to staff an expanding wartime Army. A...
The success of Germany's armored formations during the early years of World War II forced the US Army to reexamine the problem of antitank warfare. The result of that reexamination was a uniquely American solution-the tank destroyers. Primarily the...
This manual is a guide for airdrome commanders, airdrome defense officers, and personnel available for the defense of airdromes. It treats of the local defense of forward-area airdromes, exclusive of counteraction by aircraft, by the personnel,...
The purpose of the Unit Training Program tor Armored Field Artillery, is to assist the commanders and their staffs of newly-formed armored field artillery units in planning the balanced training of their units and in preparing the detailed...