This study is an historical analysis of lessons learned concerning tank mobility, firepower, protection, command and control, and overall design during the major tank warfighting experience of the 20th Century. The aim of this study was to make a...
Discusses various artillery pieces and their mechanical parts. Second volume includes additional information on improvements in gun mounting, the Welin breech mechanism and carriage improvements.
This book lists all of the equipment necessary for maintenance and repair by an aero squadron and training stations in the Aviation Section of the United States Army Signal Corps.
Contains scientific principles and theories of ordnance and gunnery including the following topics; metals and armor plate, naval rifled guns, manufacture of naval guns, breech mechanisms, gun mounts, turret mounts, sights, semi-automatic guns,...
This is a study on industry and commerce in French Indo-China. Industry subjects include legal regulations, effects of the war on industry, and items like textiles, alcohol, and chemicals. Commerce includes domestic and foreign trade (balance of...
War Department document no. 816, A.E.F. document no. 805. Includes description of gun and mount, gun crew duties, gun drills, battery commander station and duties, equipment, execution of fire, and tables of elevation, range and altitude.
A gap exists between how logistics planners and operational planners see the military environment. This leads to asynchronous planning and flawed solutions. The central theme necessary to merge these two worlds is the common operational picture. By...
Issued as No. 1962. The artillery repair truck body, model 1918, is mounted on the 3-ton F. W. D. or the 2-ton Nash chassis, and is intended for the purpose of effecting repairs in the field. The nature of its equipment is such that repairs of a...
The rocking bar sight as a unit is mounted on the left side of the carriage opposite the breech of the howitzer. The general design is that of a hollow quadrant-shaped case, curved surface uppermost, pivoted to a large bracket and moved...
Continuation of detailed instructions for constructing hooped cannons, based on information for constructing cannons of great caliber in previous volume by same author. The previous volume is titled "On the practicability of constructing cannon of...
This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages,...