MAJ Ryan Yedlinsky served as a Black Hawk pilot in Fallujah, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 and as a combat advisor on a stability transition team (STT) in Diwaniyah, Iraq during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March...
MAJ Serelda Herbin served with the Adjutant General branch in Baghdad, Iraq during 2010 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). In this March 2011 interview, MAJ Herbin discusses her pre-conceptions about Iraq and how they were disproved...
United States Air Force (USAF) MAJ Robert Lee served as a Strike Eagle pilot based out of Bagram, Afghanistan during 2009 and 2010 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). In this March 2011 interview, MAJ Lee talks to some of the...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Description 7-9
Principal parts 9
Telescope 9-10
Adjustment 11-12
Care and preservation 12-13
Dismantling and assembling 13
Nomenclature 14-17
CONTENTS
List of plates 9
List of equipment 11
Gun:
Table of weights 11
Types of 75-mm. field gun, model 1916 11-12
Description 12-13
Breech mechanism:
Nomenclature of parts 13
Description 13
Principal parts 14-17
Firing mechanism 17
Operation of...
This handbook is published for two purposes. In addition to its use in connection with the care and maintenance of the mechanism referred to, it is intended that it shall be used as a text for instruction in the intimate characteristics of...
CONTENTS
OPEN SIGHTS
Sights for the 6-pounder parapet mount, Driggs-Seabury, model of 1898 7
Sights for the 3.2-inch and 3.6-inch gun 8
Front sight 8
Rear sight 8-9
Gunner's quadrant 10-12
Use of quadrant 12-13
Sights for the 4-inch and 6-pounder...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates 7
General description 9
Emplacement 9
The carriage 9
Principal parts 9
Pedestal 10
Pivot yoke 10
Cradle 10
Recoil and counterrecoil system 11
Gunner's platforms 12
Elevating mechanism 12
Range disk 12
Travel-sing...
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List of plates 4
General description 5
Emplacement 5
Carriage 5
The action of the carriage 5
Principal parts 5
Base ring 5
Traversing roller system 6
Racer 6
Side frames 6
Working platform 7
Cradle 7
Recoil and counter recoil...
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates 5
General description 7
Emplacement 7
Carriage 7
Principal parts 7
Action of carriage 8
Base ring 8
Azimuth circle and pointer 8
Traversing roller system 9
Racer 9
Clips and dust guard 10
Chassis and transoms...