This book consists of lectures delivered at the Army War College on machine guns and their tactical employment. Includes training, tactics, use in trenches, emplacements, and examples of machine gun use by the Germans in World War I battles.
This manual is designed for use by barrage balloon units as a guide in the selection and training of personnel and the operation of materiel. The instructions given may be applied with slight modifications to any type of materiel used by barrage...
Contains general information on artillery command, planning the attack, positioning, equipment preparations; mission support; barrage and bombardment; ammunitions; and advancement.
"This manual presents the details of construction, use, and maintenance of land sites for low altitude barrage balloons. Rigging of the bed is described for securing low-altitude barrage balloons by bedding down, tail-line mooring, mooring-cirlce...
Department of Tactics-U.S. Army Field Artillery School
Artillery tactics is defined as the art of disposing artillery troops, guns, ammunition and communications in the presence of the enemy so as to apply its maximum fire power in such a manner as will assist the infantry in accomplishing its mission.
It must be borne in mind that this book deals with principles and example of methods of warfare, and not fixed rules. There are no fixed methods in warfare. Development in warfare means change of methods or the invention of new ones to overcome...
This pamphlet deals with the tactical functions of field artillery commanders, the tactical disposition and maneuver of field artillery units, and the tactical application of field artillery fire. The principles of employment of artillery in the...
United States. Army. War Plans Division. Training and Instruction Branch.
This manual contains information on a variety of military subjects including communications, weapons, gas attacks, German defenses, tactics, and recent operations.
This manual contains chapters on artillery organization, command, guns and equipment, employment of defensive artillery, artillery operations, targeting and reconnaissance.
This manual presents the details of construction, use, and maintenance of land sites for low altitude barrage balloons. Rigging of the bed is described for securing low altitude barrage balloons by bedding down, tail-line mooring, mooring-circle...
United States. American Expeditionary Forces. General Staff, G-5., United States War Dept.
The following provisional machine gun firing manual, 1917, is published by the General Headquarters American Expeditionary Force for the information and guidance of units equipped with Hotchkiss and Browning machine guns.
This graphic survey of radio and radar equipment used by the Army Air Forces is intended to furnish authorized personnel with graphic and narrative data relative to description, electrical and physical characteristics, purpose, and tactical...
Contains basic instruction used by infantry, artillery, and aviation for both the offensive and defensive tactics as employed by the Germans in July 1918.