This study examines factors influencing the development of theory and doctrine based on emerging and future technology. It uses the air power theory of Giulio Douhet and the unescorted daylight strategic bombing doctrine of the US Army Air Force to...
This work is an edited translation of a German manual and is based on the experiences of the German forces on the Eastern Front and on lessons learned from the Finnish Army.
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...
Discusses the experiences of individual soldiers in combat. Covers several topics including: leadership issues such as leaders vs. inertia, discipline and trial by fire; normal operations including combat in towns, battalion attacks, fighting in...
This is a lecture delivered at the Army and Navy Staff College, Washington, D.C., January 15, 1944. It reveals the part the carriers played in obtaining control of the Solomon's area.
Chapters include information on tactics (mortars, grenade-discharger tactics, and mortars in chemical warfare), organization of Japanese mortar units, and equipment (grenade dischargers, light mortars, and medium and heavy mortars).
The principal German infantry weapons are described here in order to enable U.S. troops to identify and, when the opportunity exists, to operate them. Sections include information on pistols, rifles, and grenades, machine guns and mortars, antitank...
This is a guide for soldier's to better understand the Japanese Army. Chapter I describes the Japanese soldier, their entrance into the Army, characteristics and training, promotion of morale, and conduct in battle. Chapter II highlights the...
The purpose of this study is to provide a concise description of Japanese infantry weapons. Contents include nomenclature, pistols and rifles, grenades and landmines, grenade dischargers, machine guns, mortars, antitank and infantry guns, and small...
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....
Integrates and amplifies basic photographic doctrine with the experiences of the Sixth Army headquarters in amphibious and ground warfare. Some of the material has been adapted from War Department field manuals and photo interpreter procedures of...
United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area
Report of the United States Army Forces in the Central Pacific Area's participation in the Marianas Operation. Volume 2 of 2 . Part 3 focuses on the XXIV Corps. This volume looks at G-1 personnel and related staff sections, G-2 intelligence, G-3...
Office of the Commanding General - Army Service Forces,
The Secretary of War directed the formation of the New Weapons Board on 17 January, 1944 and instructed the board to gather such technical information and new equipment as it deemed necessary to proceed as soon as possible to North African and...
The suggestions made in this combat lessons document are drawn from experiences in other theaters of operation. The great combat lesson learned from every operation is the importance of leadership. Topics include leadership, normal operations,...
The suggestions made in this combat lessons document are drawn from experiences in other theaters of operation. The great combat lesson learned from every operation is the importance of leadership. Leadership, normal operations, airborne...
This monograph examines Colonel Bond's writings and compares his principles of military engineering to the current Objective Force Proposals, which are centered around the concepts of "assured mobility" and "embedded capabilities". The analysis...