This Infantry School document contains reports by General Grant, Commander Henry Walke, U.S. Navy, and other commanders, generals, and officers during the Civil War. There are additional private accounts as well (i.e., from a member of a battery,...
Discusses a variety of topics including the general situation, organization, division headquarters, the G-1 section of the Division of General Staff, the services and their functions, supply, introduction, concentration of a division in a training...
Report from the Military Attache, Berlin. Discusses the history of the German General Staff school system. Looks at academic and administrative organizations. Also discusses military organizations and weapons and tactical doctrine.
Pamphlet was prepared by the Visitor's Bureau, G-1, for the purpose of assisting American officers in making a trip over the American Battlefields in France. Covers the general situation prior to July 16, 1916, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons and Rimes,...
The Illustrated War News was a weekly magazine during World War I, published by Illustrated London News. The magazine contained articles, photographs, diagrams and maps. This book is a compilation of issues from October, November and December of...
Paper sets forth the principles meant to govern the joint action of the Army and Navy in cost defense, the action of the Navy in coast defense, the system of coast defense to be employed by the Army, and the procedure to be followed by the Army in...
From a lecture delivered at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., 1 April, 1930. Gives a general description of the area and discusses the first phase of military operations, the second phase of operations, administration, organization and...
General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
Notes on recent operations no. 3. McAndrew, James W.
Notes on the St. Mihiel operations and the first four days of the Meuse-Argonne operations and was published for the information of the command. Digitized by the Military History Institute.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates 5
General description 7
Emplacement 7
Carriage 7
Principal parts 7
Action of carriage 8
Base ring 8
Azimuth circle and pointer 8
Traversing roller system 9
Racer 9
Clips and dust guard 10
Chassis and transoms...
Chapters include the following headings: political; operations against the Waziristan tribes previous to 1914; operations against Waziristan tribes between August 1914 and 11th June 1917; operations in the Shahur and Khaisara valleys between 12th...
The following significant dates in the history of the First Division are, listed in order to facilitate research and study. 1. The organization of the First Division began on May 23, 1917. 2. It sailed for France beginning June 12, 1917. 3. The...
This pamphlet was prepared for the purpose of presenting the announced policies and basic principles of military organization. It gives a brief outline of the general organization of the land forces of the United States, including a theater of war....
These are reports regarding the various questions of law arising during the military occupation of the islands ceded or yielded by Spain under the Treaty of Paris.
This document provides an account of the Palestine campaign. Chapters include background and information on Egypt and the Suez Canal, the desert of Sinai, Palestine, Gaza, trench warfare, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Junction Station and Ludd, the...
The lectures contained in this document address the following subjects: camps, bivouacs, and outposts, with modifications required by an Indian terrain; marches, space and time (advanced guards and rear guards- considerations also with regard to...
This document details the light and heavy machine guns of the German Armed Forces (firing action, general descriptions, non-recoiling portions, action of mechanism, etc.).
This document was compiled under the direction of the editorial staff of the Review of Reviews. Topics include America's principles for world settlement, weapons of war, cost of war, Germany (industrial/political structure), the selective draft,...
The arrangement of the annual reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917 includes the following titles: Secretary of War; Chief of Staff; Adjutant General; Inspector General; Judge Advocate General; Quartermaster General;...
The United States entered "the war to end all wars" seventy years ago, but much may still be learned from a study of that vast military and diplomatic experience. Accordingly, the Center of Military History is now bringing back into print a series...