This pamphlet focuses on the importance of counter-battery work. It is a continuous operation depending for success on accuracy of fire, continuity of plan, unremitting study and firm control.
FM 100-5, Tentative Field Service Regulations, Operations, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It contains the principles of troop leading and combat in the combined arms in maneuver warfare and constitutes the basis of...
This pamphlet is the guiding principle to be remembered when considering the role of fighting tanks. They are mainly employed to assist the infantry both in attack and defense. Includes organizing formations and units, plan of operations,...
This pamphlet provides instructions for defensive actions for large combat units, discussing artillery, aviation, infantry, anti-aircraft defense, gas companies, mines, raids, local attacks.
Discusses the training and deployment for attack, of infantry and tank units, to work more closely in combat. Includes instruction for anti-tank defense.
This book describes the mark I aeroplane flare. It is an illuminating device which is dropped from an airplane at night to obtain illumination of the ground. Description of components, method of assembly, folding parachute, packing, operation of...
A series of lectures by Maj. H.B. Fiske, Maj. Leroy Eltinge and Capt. A.B. Warfield, pertaining to the tactics of infantry, cavalry and field artillery forces..
This manual supersedes the 1939 version. The 1941 edition of FM 100-5 encapsulates the state of Army doctrine on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. This is the doctrine the Army took into the great Louisiana maneuvers of 1941. Later,...
This book details the purpose of artillery rulers. The rulers are used on contoured maps for studying the problems with artillery fire and the choice of battery positions.
This handbook is designed to inform advisors at all levels of the structure and nature of the Vietnamese village. It covers the traditional village leadership, village government, village economy, village security, and the advisory role. The...
FM 100-5, Field Service Regulations, Operations, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned. It contains the doctrines of leading troops in combat and tactics of the combined arms and constitutes the basis of instruction of all...
A draft of the chaplains manual including chapters on historical background; office, regulations, and qualifications; education and school; equipment; religious observances; special services; religious training and conferences; pastoral functions;...
The purpose of this manual is to provide a comprehensive picture of all Strategic Services activities in their relation to actual or planned military operations, and a guide for the planning and conduct of Strategic Services within theaters and...
A manual stating the purpose of the Strategic Services, its mission, objectives and methods to implement. The primary objective of the Special Operations Branch is the destruction of enemy personnel, material, and installations.
An ordnance school text, Chapter 1 covers material common to all rockets, and their advantages and disadvantages. Succeeding chapters are concerned with the various standard and development rockets, with a chapter assigned to each size of rocket.