This is a field manual prepared under the direction of the Quartermaster General in 1929. Transport categories contained in the document include equitation, training remounts, use and care of animals, use and care of animal-drawn transport, use and...
This study is primarily a treatment of the use of prisoner of war labor by the United States Army. It also provides a comprehensive treatment of the employment of prisoners of war by private employers in the United States. The primary objective of...
Field Manual (FM) 5-100 is the engineer capstone manual. It develops the engineer aspects of doctrine described within FM 100-5. This manual defines the engineer role within Army operations and provides broad principles for engineer employment...
This handbook contains general military instructions for cadets; covers Army organization, duties, discipline, operations, training, drills, hygiene, and first aid. Includes photographs and illustrations.
This regulation prescribes policies, procedures, and standards for establishing and operating Child Development Services delivery systems. Chapters 1 through 4 apply to the following three CDS delivery systems: Child Development Centers (CDC),...
Study seeks to provide a work of reference for general staff officers and for students in the Army School System. Gives a general background to United States military demobilization, starting with the pre-Civil War experience and continuing up...
The following provisional instructions for maneuvers, prepared by the General Staff, under the direction of the Chief of Staff of the Army are approved by the Secretary of War and published for the information and government of the Army, and of the...
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 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...
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...
Translation of an official French document, June 1916. The report is divided into three parts; sound perception and sound observation, methods for determining the direction, and account of instruments in use.
Looks at issues such as government and administration; maintenance of law and order; courts and law; civilian defense; civilian supply; public health and sanitation; censorship and transportation. Digitized by the Military History Institute.
Military sanitation is the Army way of keeping soldiers healthy, and preventing the spread of disease. Its primary aim is to keep as many men as possible in fighting trim, physically and mentally. This manual teaches fundamentals of sanitation,...
Military bands provide a powerful means to commanding officers for stimulating and maintaining the morale of their units. In addition, good bands contribute directly to the contentment and well-being of the troops. It follows, therefore, that...
The military police consists of personnel authorized to a commander to assist him in the enforcement of laws, regulations, and orders, and for other purposes as outlined in this manual. Subjects included in this field manual are organization,...
Military operations conducted under conditions of snow and extreme cold follow the same basic principles as do operations under other conditions. The differences lie in the tactical and logistical limitations imposed by the adverse climatic...
This 1930 training manual on submarine mining includes the following sections: general principles of submarine mine defense; organization, command, and administration; description and operation of casemate and electrical equipment; submarine mine...
This soldier's handbook from 1913 addresses the following topics: unauthorized absence; extracts from Army regulations of 1910; extracts from Articles of War; guard duty; rations; clothing; arms and equipment; international Morse or General Service...
This soldier's handbook addresses the following topics: rights as citizens forfeited by desertion; unauthorized absence; extracts from Army regulations of 1895; examination for promotion; extracts from Articles of War; Army code- the Myer system...
...Among the many problems confronting the Ordnance Replacement Training Center, since its beginning early in 1941, has been the necessity of developing suitable training methods. Adequate facilities, equipment, instructional aids and trained...