Headquarters, Department of the Army and the Air Force
Manual tells and shows how to rig certain types of ammunition and explosives in A-22 cargo bags and A-7A cargo slings for low- or high-velocity airdrop. These procedures apply only to the items listed in this manual.
Headquarters, Departments of the Army and Air Force
Manual tells and shows how to prepare and position certain types of ammunition and explosives in A-22 cargo bags and A-71 cargo sling for low-velocity or high-velocity airdrop. This manual also lists the types of ammunition and explosives...
FM 7-10 1942 provides information about offensive combat, defensive combat, security missions, the rifle platoon, rifle squad, weapons platoon, administration, signal communication system, and has appendixes on individual protection and directives...
This manual provides the unit commander and the gunnery officer with a step-by-step outline of tank gunnery training and the necessary explanation and references. The discussion of training methods is limited to tank guns. Necessary information...
Dog transportation is useful under conditions of snow and ice which preclude the use of horses, mules, or motorized transportation. This field manual details the military sled dog, equipment, kennel management, field management, physiology and...
"Busting the bocage: American combined arms operations in France, 6 June-31 July 1944" shows how the U.S. Army identified and overcame the problems of fighting in difficult terrain. The adoption of new tactics combined with technical innovations...
Office of the Commanding General - Army Service Forces,
The Secretary of War directed the formation of the New Weapons Board on 17 January, 1944 and instructed the board to gather such technical information and new equipment as it deemed necessary to proceed as soon as possible to North African and...
This book deals with the European Theater of Operations, covering the period from the build-up in the United Kingdom through V-E Day. Its seven sections are arranged chronologically.
Hunter, Kenneth E., comp.; Tackley, Margaret E., comp.; Bacon, Mary Ann, ed.
The book deals with the Pacific Theater of Operations and is divided into six sections: (1) The Allied Defensive; (2) The Strategic Defensive and Tactical Offensive; (3) The Offensive—1944; (4) The Final Phase; (5) The China–Burma–India...
Field fortifications are works constructed by military forces in combat operations to increase natural defensive strength of a locality. This FM addresses terrain appreciation, organization of the ground, effect of projectiles, trenches, obstacles,...
Chapters in this infantry field manual include: infantry characteristics and organization (moral qualities, leadership, training, means of combat); combat (basic factors of infantry combat, offensive and defensive combat, special phases of...
This Leavenworth Paper is a critical reconstruction of World War II Ranger operations conducted at or near Djebel el Ank, Tunisia; Porto Empedocle, Sicily; Cisterna, Italy; Zerf, Germany; and Cabanatuan in the Philippines. It is not intended to be...
As originally conceived, this publication was to be the vehicle of "lessons learned" in Korea. This publication is the vehicle of dissemination of "combat information". Actually, the fighting in Korea has provided few items that could be so...
The principal German infantry weapons are described here in order to enable U.S. troops to identify and, when the opportunity exists, to operate them. Sections include information on pistols, rifles, and grenades, machine guns and mortars, antitank...
Troops in occupied positions increase their combat effectiveness by works of an engineering nature called field fortifications. This manual describes field fortification methods and gives details of construction of entrenchments, emplacements, and...
When the North Korean 4th Division breached the Pusan Perimeter in the sector of the U.S. 24th Infantry Division on 6 August, it triggered an extensive series of counterattacks that lasted for the next two weeks. Those counterattacks and the...
The operations of the Eighth Army which formed the basis for this study were of the period of maximum reverse and then recovery. The report does not reach back to the initial period when troops were green and our commitments were so limited that...