This book is designed as a textbook to field train infantry soldiers on a 21 day schedule in details of the probable phases of attack and defense, with other tactical training.
This manual gives a brief history, use of the ponton equipage, boat drills, and bridge construction of the United States Army. Includes index and Change No. 1 dated 14 June 1917.
"The following brief history of the steps which have been taken, in this country, to organize a bridge equipage adapted to our service, will sufficiently explain the reasons that have induced the Board to recommend the system described in the...
This book is written in question and answer format describing the objects of fortification and field profiles and examines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Covers obstacles, revetments, field works, defenses, demolition, sieges, and...
Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.; War Plans Division
The following pamphlet, entitled "Handbook of the 155-mm. Filloux Gun Materiel," is a reprint of a pamphlet adapted from an official French document at headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, France. [War Dept doc no. 806.]
This text presents the theories that apply in the use of explosives and in the construction of ordnance material, the methods pursued in the construction of the material, descriptions of the material, and the principles of its use. Technical...
This text is intended to present the general characteristics of existing field artillery weapons in a manner not too highly technical to be understood without an examination of the materiel under discussion.
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...
1916 description, adjustment and operation in drill and target practice / prepared especially for officers and enlisted men of the National Guard, and recommended for their use by the Division of Militia Affairs of the War Department.
The Drill Regulations for Coast Artillery, United States Army, prepared by the Board on the Regulation of Coast Artillery Fire,are published for the information and government of the Army. To insure uniformity throughout the Army, all coast...
Gun mechanics : 155-mm. howitzer, prepared under the direction of the commanding general, Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Fort Sill, Oklahoma : lessons, questions and answers ..
"For some years past all ordnance manufactured for the Service have been of steel and breech loading. These modern ordnance, as they are termed, differ considerably from the wrought-iron and stell muzzle-loading pieces which, as regards...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Covers engineer planning data, supply planning data, transportation and movement planning, personnel service support, health service support planning for evacuation and hospitalization and operational force requirement planning.
Textbook originally prepared for use by the cadets at the United States Military Academy. In this text the author has endeavored to explain and illustrate in technical detail a number of the important engineering principles underlying the design of...