Headquarters, Antiaircraft Command, Army Ground Forces
This circular consists of extracts from reports written by United States Military and Naval personnel (or from authoritative statements and documents quoted and evaluated by such personnel) concerning Antiaircraft Artillery. While the information...
Military organizations are normally quite resistant to change the way they operate. As Eliot A. Cohen and John Gooch note in ‘Military Misfortunes,’ militaries have failed on occasion to anticipate, learn, and adapt to changes in the nature of...
United States Air Corps Tactical School (Langley Field)
"The scope of this 1927 course in Antiaircraft Defense as taught at this school is to familiarize Air Corps commanders with the capabilities and limitations of the antiaircraft Service, and to assure coordination and cooperation between the Air...
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
The purpose of this study is to give U.S. troops a comprehensive picture of German antiaircraft artillery and its use, and at the same time to furnish U.S. antiaircraft artillerymen data by which they can compare German methods with their own....
"AR95-5 charges the Commanding General of the Army with the provision, training, and maintenance of all Army aviation means for the active air defense of the continental United States, of oversea garrisons, and of theaters of operations where...
The monograph covers plans and preparations for the defense of Japan against air attack and seaborne invasion for the period from 1941 until the end of World War II. Contents include the general defense command, accelerated defense activity, the...
This manual treats of the theory and practice of gunnery and fire control for antiaircraft artillery automatic weapons when firing by gun pointer and central control methods. The fundamentals of exterior ballistics and gunnery as covered in...
This manual treats of the theory and practice of gunnery, fire control, and position finding for antiaircraft artillery guns. A knowledge of the fundamentals of exterior ballistics and gunnery as covered in FM 4-10 will be helpful in understanding...
PM 4-175, Coast Artillery Field Manual, Antiaircraft Artillery Operation of Materiel and Employment of Personnel, Searchlight Units, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
This supplement to Okinawa Gunto looks at the air and land defenses of Okinawa and the surrounding Ryukyu Islands of Japan during 1944 prior to the invasion by Allied forces in World War II.
The purpose of this guide is to present the essential tactical, technical and recognition data on weapons and equipment employed in the armies and security forces of the Communist countries of Eastern Europe. This volume discusses field and coast...
This document is divided into three parts detailing German military symbols for the German Army, Air Force, and Navy. Sections include the following topics: basic symbols for headquarters, branches of service (arms and services), weapons and...
This manual prescribes a systematic procedure to be followed by gun crews of 3-inch antiaircraft guns manning materiel of the following types: the 3-inch antiaircraft guns M1917, M1917MI, and M1917MII on the fixed mounts M1917, M1917MI, and...