Report on the Eighth Air Force's mission to target multiple defensive installations, consisting of anti-aircraft and artillery positions and strong points covering the Gironde estuary in southwest France and defensive installations in Germany.
Provides operational orders for the Pacific Fleet's Amphibious Forces in the capture and occupation of Iwo Jima and the development of an advanced air base on the captured island.
A handbook for the Howitzer heavy artillery gun, detailing aspects of the weapon hardware itself, cleaning and maintenance, ammunition handling, firing procedure, as well as the structure and tactics of a Howitzer artillery company.
This manual supersedes FM 100-5, 1944.It contains the doctrines of leading troops in combat and the tactics of the combined arms. It constitutes the basis of instruction of all arms and services for field service. Appendix includes index, a...
This manual provides the framework for understanding low-intensity conflict (LIC) at the battalion and brigade levels to include the definition and nature of LIC, the military's role, imperatives, and operational categories. It also provides...
This pamphlet provides instructions on accurately using fire control and gunnery aids and instruments to plot targets during artillery fire. "Translation of a French official document of October, 1916."
This book is designed to teach the methods used with light trench mortar, in preparation for drills in the United States Army. This is also known as War Department #811 and A.E.F. #550.
This book includes reports, orders, correspondence, and memorandums of specific attacks and raids with the assignments for manpower, weapons, tactics and accompanying timelines.
This pamphlet provides instructions for defensive actions for large combat units, discussing artillery, aviation, infantry, anti-aircraft defense, gas companies, mines, raids, local attacks.
Discusses the training and deployment for attack, of infantry and tank units, to work more closely in combat. Includes instruction for anti-tank defense.
This pamphlet teaches that the temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, and the hygrometric conditions may have an impact on artillery at the moment of fire.
Descriptions of the equipment used to send and receive sound signals for communications and liaison on the battlefield. The sound is produced by a mechanical bugle actuated by a bottle of pressurized gas.
The object of these notes is to standardize the construction of obstacles throughout the American Expeditionary Forces and to limit the patterns taught and used.
Subtitled "including an extract on the use of searchlights; and note on the application of the acoustic goniometer to firing by sound and to the orientation of searchlights." Describes the use of the acoustic goniometer, which is used for...