This manual is a guide for the commander the field and personnel of artillery searchlight battery. It will assist the commander in developing the battery into an efficient, smooth working unit capable of operating effectively in combat.
To request you sign the decision paper at Tab A requesting the Commandant to sign the letter to General Kerwin on the field artillery requirements for searchlights.
This paper discusses the various uses of searchlights in different military operations and includes appendices with technical information and descriptions of materiel.
PM 4-175, Coast Artillery Field Manual, Antiaircraft Artillery Operation of Materiel and Employment of Personnel, Searchlight Units, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
Searchlights may be classified broadly as Coast Defense Searchlights (used normally against naval targets) and Antiaircraft Searchlights (used normally against aircraft).
This manual is a guide for the battery commanders, platoon commanders, section leaders, and light commanders of seacoast artillery searchlight units in harbor defenses or in the field in training searchlight squads in the orderly, efficient...
The study presents a consideration of searchlight employment in some operations involving seacoast defense and the attack and defense of river lines. The purpose of the study was to develop through examination of past and present methods of...
The purpose of this study is to give U.S. troops a comprehensive picture of German antiaircraft artillery and its use, and at the same time to furnish U.S. antiaircraft artillerymen data by which they can compare German methods with their own....
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...
From a series of studies covering the operations of the Japanese Armed Forces during World War II. This revision of the studies is more detailed and benefited from additional fact-checking and reinterviews. This document covers Installations and...
Air Intelligence Group, Division of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department
This is a supplement to the Photographic Intelligence Center report. Topics include information on radar, communications, direction finding, navigational aids, electronics combinations, related installations, comparative studies and searchlights.
This document contains a G-2 special study of Iwo Jima. There is an index to standard map symbols, starboard center and profiles of beaches, a vertical photograph of the southern half of the island with beaches superimposed, situation maps, and...
United States Air Corps Tactical School (Langley Field)
"The scope of this 1927 course in Antiaircraft Defense as taught at this school is to familiarize Air Corps commanders with the capabilities and limitations of the antiaircraft Service, and to assure coordination and cooperation between the Air...
Headquarters, Antiaircraft Command, Army Ground Forces
This circular consists of extracts from reports written by United States Military and Naval personnel (or from authoritative statements and documents quoted and evaluated by such personnel) concerning Antiaircraft Artillery. While the information...
USAF Historical Division, Air University; Taylor, Joe Gray
This monograph covers the development of United States Air Force night operations through World War II in detail. It gives brief treatment to the period between wars, and treats of night air operations in Korea through 30 June 1952. It details...