This manual treats of the position finding, control, and illumination phenomena pertaining to antiaircraft searchlights. It is broken down into the following topics: sound location, acoustic correctors, searchlights, searchlight control, control...
This manual is designed for use by antiaircraft searchlight batteries as a guide in the handling of materiel, selection of personnel, employment of practical training methods, and service of the piece. Drills and instructions given pertain...
This manual is designed for use by barrage balloon units as a guide in the selection and training of personnel and the operation of materiel. The instructions given may be applied with slight modifications to any type of materiel used by barrage...
This manual is designed to serve as a general reference on engineer organization. It covers the mission, classification, organization, equipment, armament, and training of engineer units. Chapters include information on the staff duties and...
This manual presents the details of construction, use, and maintenance of land sites for low altitude barrage balloons. Rigging of the bed is described for securing low altitude barrage balloons by bedding down, tail-line mooring, mooring-circle...
This manual deals with the camouflage of bivouacs, command posts, supply points, and medical installations. Although these installations are treated in separate sections, their camouflage problems are much alike. Each is an activity in which...
This manual contains in condensed form the approved principles and doctrines for the training and employment of Field Artillery. Field service regulations, field manuals, technical regulations, and training manuals cover subjects referred to but...
Camouflage is work done to provide protective concealment of materiel, troops, or military works from enemy observation from airplanes, captive balloons, and ground observation posts. This FM details materials and construction methods, and typical...
Troops in occupied positions increase their combat effectiveness by works of an engineering nature called field fortifications. This manual describes field fortification methods and gives details of construction of entrenchments, emplacements, and...
This field manual details tactical functions, troop movements, halts, bivouacs, offensive and defensive combat, artillery in retrograde movements, artillery in special operations, and supply and evacuation.
This FM describes elementary ballistics, effects of projectiles and fuze action, dispersion, the firing battery (initial laying, commands, and reports; fire commands and their execution), and observed fires.
The importance of concealment to field artillery cannot be overstressed. There are three reasons why the enemy will do everything he can to discover the location of field artillery. The first, and obvious one, is to reduce our fire power. He will...
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...
FM 7-10 1942 provides information about offensive combat, defensive combat, security missions, the rifle platoon, rifle squad, weapons platoon, administration, signal communication system, and has appendixes on individual protection and directives...
The chapters in this FM 6-40 document include information on the firing battery, elementary ballistics and dispersion, effects of projectiles, preparation of fire, conduct of fire, technique of fire direction, dead space, visibility, calibration,...
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...
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...
This field manual details supply and evacuation and regimental service company and medical detachment. Section one includes information on procurement and distribution of supplies, maintenance, repair, and other activities, as well as medical...
Contains extracts from the Army Regulations of 1881, extracts from the Articles of War, extracts form Laidley's Rifle Firing, signals from the General Service Code in addition to information regarding detachment from service and care of individual...
General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
From an official French document. War Department Document No. 802 cancels previous publications of the same title, War Department Documents Nos. 583 and 711. These instructions conform to the American company and are based on French experiences....