This study explains the extent to which motorization can advantageously be carried in the organization of the infantry division. According to the author, motor transportation has many advantages over animal transportation, and this is compared...
This monograph examines whether or not the U. S. Army’s transition from horse drawn field artillery to motorized traction in the interwar years of 1919 to 1941 has’relevance to the U.S. Army’s movement to an automated command and control...
This paper is a comparison of three types of prime movers in the transportation of the division light artillery, with a view of pointing out certain advantages and disadvantages possessed by each type. The types so considered are (1) the...
"Since the invention of gunpowder, fortification has received various improvements, and many have been the books wrote upon this subject, which might incline one to think, that it was arrived to its utmost perfection. . . "
"Flash and sound ranging have now an established status in our military organizaiton. Besides serving the artillery both systems are able to supply valuable infomration to the Intelligence Sections of the General Staff in operations."
Combined Arms Research Library (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College)
This collection was provided through the generous donation of George Nafziger to the Combined Arms Research Library. The Nafziger Orders Of Battle Collection contains a compilation of 7985 individual orders of battle from 1600 to 1945. It began...
This book was published for the purpose of presenting all the information gathered on the subject of German military symbols since the publication of the basic handbook "German military symbols". For the Army, topics include: basic symbols and...
This paper argues that methods for transport of light field artillery in infantry and cavalry divisions should be tractor-drawn, with the elimination of horse-drawn artillery.
Army engineers operate increasingly as members of joint and multinational forces. Although doctrine reflects this reality, it is ambiguous regarding how commanders can best structure a headquarters capable of employing joint and multinational...
This manuscript, which deals primarily with artillery flash and sound ranging, was prepared in 1949 by German authorities in this field. There are discussions on the mission of reconnaissance artillery, surveying, organization, the observation...
Rules and methods of military construction and fortification; includes observations on the Duke of Richmond's extensive plans of fortification and the new works he has been carrying on since these were set aside by the house of commons in 1786.
United States Works Progress Administration (New York, N.Y.)
Tables of grid coordinates ... computed ... by the Project for the computation of mathematical tables ... The basic formulas upon which the tables have been developed are from Special publication no. 59, U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey.--Pref.
This work is an edited translation of a German manual and is based on the experiences of the German forces on the Eastern Front and on lessons learned from the Finnish Army.
This manual prescribes the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel normally assigned to one howitzer section of the firing battery.
This handbook on Germany focuses on electric power, sources of energy, generating plants, the grid, load factor and network, production/consumption, electric traction, street lighting, local electricity supplies, the public supply system, and...
This paper briefly discusses the salient features of the available documents and sources with a view to establishing the present technical practice in ferrying operations. The discussion illustrates the present tendencies in pontoon design of the 7...