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 infantry field manual gives information on the headquarters company (organization, company headquarters, intelligence and reconnaissance platoon, communication platoon), combat intelligence (technique, duties of intelligence personnel,...
This manual deals primarily with the tactical employment of the infantry rifle regiment. The instructions are also applicable in many respects to other types of infantry regiments. The procedures indicated in this manual should be considered as...
The mission of the Ordnance Department in the field is to store and issue ordnance general supplies and ammunition; to inspect, repair, alter, and maintain ordnance materiel in the hands of troops and in storage; to administer the field...
This field manual develops basic principles applicable to the supply of ammunition. For discussion of ordnance service in the field, see FM 9-5. This manual deals with the ammunition administrative and operational functions of the commanders and...
FM 9-25, Ordnance Field Manual, The Ordnance Company, Depot, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It is based on the fundamentals of ordnance service contained in FM 9-5 and Table of Organization 9-18. The purpose of this...
Part one of this field manual details the communications zone. This includes the organization and functions of the theater of operations, the organization and operation of quartermaster service in the communications zone, supply installations, and...
This manual is a guide to the employment of the assault gun platoon of the tank battalion, armored infantry battalion, the platoon of the assault gun troop of the mechanized cavalry reconnaissance troop, and the assault gun section of the medium...
This manual is a guide to the tactical employment of tank destroyer units both self-propelled and towed. The methods of employment described herein do not comprise a set of inflexible rules. Commanders must adapt the principles of employment...
This manual covers the tactical employment of the towed tank destroyer platoon and includes descriptions of certain techniques that are not covered in other manuals. This field manual details movements, bivouacs, positions in readiness,...
The two parts to this field manual detail the organization, duties, and activities of the Corps of Military Police, as well as mission, functions, and technique of military police organizations.
Contents of this field manual include: organization and staff officers; characteristics of guns and accessories; missions; control of fire; communications; employment of AAA guns; employment against ground and naval targets; reconnaissance,...
The primary mission of automatic weapons is to attack all enemy aircraft within range, particularly low flying aircraft to destroy them, cause them to abandon their missions, or to decrease the efficiency of their operations. The following field...
FM 100-15 (Field Service Regulations, Larger Units) is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It discusses the functions and operations of larger units. It presupposes a familiarity with the provisions of FM 100-5 (Field...
This provisional manual deals with the employment of large units in both open and stabilized warfare. It is assumed that the enemy is equal in intelligence to ourselves and that he is as well armed, trained, and supplied. This manual is intended as...
The Traffic Control Branch was organized in 1941 "to aid in the movement of such War Department Traffic," and to avoid the experience of World War I transportation. The branch established procedures in an attempt to provide a smooth flow of freight...
The objective of this monograph is to present a general description of the organization and activities of the transportation zones, including the separate installations over which the zone transportation officers have jurisdiction. More detailed...
This paper examines the location of the operational commander on the battlefield during the 20th century. It focuses on where he could be found during the fight, the techniques he used to develop and issue orders, and how he insured his...