McKinney, Leonard L; Office of the Chief of the Chemical Corps, Historical Office
This is an account of flame thrower employment and the numerous problems involved. The volume purports to present: a survey of flame warfare prior to World War II; a brief account of the flame weapons developed by both allied and enemy powers...
This is the combat history of the 79th Fighter Group during World War Two. The document details the following contents: group commanders; group combat narrative; campaigns; battle citations and commendations; claims- illustrated statistical...
'These were the Americans: nearly 2,000 of them'…..There was a husky apprentice plasterer from Philadelphia who flew a fighter. His seven-ton Thunderbolt was last seen in a dive over the Zuider Zee, an Me 109 close behind with its nose-cannon...
Intelligence Staff of 3rd, 4th , and 5th Marine Divisions
Contains a photographic survey of the different Japanese defense installations on Iwo Jima as well as mapping of the mines, blockhouses, anti-aircraft, covered artillery, coastal defense, and enemy installations.
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...
FM 100-5, Tentative Field Service Regulations, Operations, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It contains the principles of troop leading and combat in the combined arms in maneuver warfare and constitutes the basis of...
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...
General Staff (Intelligence), General Headquarters
The following notes are issued in order to facilitate the accurate location of important military features, such as machine gun emplacements, trench mortars, batteries, railways, tracks, buried cables, dugouts, and mine shafts by means of aeroplane...
Published for use as a text book in the Coast Artillery School and in schools providing military training, it includes classifications of ammunition, primers, propellants, projectiles, charges, fuses, and fire effects.
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...
United States. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-5., United States War Dept.
The following provisional machine gun firing manual, 1917, is published by the General Headquarters American Expeditionary Force for the information and guidance of units equipped with Hotchkiss and Browning machine guns.
This manual sets forth the basic concepts of US Army doctrine. These concepts form the foundation for what is taught in our service schools, and the guide for training and combat development throughout the Army. Most important, this manual...
Issued as War Department, Document No. 592. Instructions on all aspects of constructing and using trenches as well as wire entanglements. Includes 5 plates.
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...
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...
This manual contains information and instruction in the care and handling of all tents being issued to the Army. It is an aid for training personnel in the use of tents as well as a handy reference and guide in the field. This field manual details...