The U.S. Army today is faced with a dilemma. This situation arises from the conflict of having to logistically support potential Army commitments worldwide with outdated techniques and equipment. Up to now, the Army has relied on Logistics Over the...
This manual implements AFPD 11-2, Flight Rules and Procedures. As a Joint Departmental Publication (JDP), it identifies the Air Force as executive agent for the DoD NOTAM System; describes the system and its relation to the Federal Aviation...
One might ask why combat trained paratroopers jumped into a forest fire instead of the fields of Germany. After all, this was 1945 and the United States was at war with Germany. The answer was simple. In 1945, the Army, along with the rest of the...
"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...
Without argument or doubt, the United States Air Force has earned distinction as the world’s greatest Air Force (AF)! The renown successes of the AF beginning with World War I, through the conception of jet aircraft during the Korean War, the...
This paper discusses air operations by the British armed forces after the 3rd Battle of Gaza. Detailed events of 1917 are written, with forces involved (to include Germany and Turkey and their armed forces available), artillery, attacks, bombings,...
This paper discusses the operations of the XX Corps, French Tenth Army (American 1st and 2d Divisions, Moroccan 1st Division) in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, 18-23 July, 1918. Also revealed are reasons why French forces had success in the early...
This is the fourth in a series of interim reports published by Heaquarters Army Air Forces. The original material was prepared by historical officers of the First Allied Airborne Army and the IX Troop Carrier Command, and by a committee of officers...
Trauma training is regularly conducted within the military medical community in an environment of increasing scrutiny and pressure to replace animals with inanimate alternatives. This thesis uses the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) animal...
A translation of a French official document of July 1917, this is the amendment to the instructions covering the object and the conditions of a combined offensive action. Includes definitions and discussions of the plan and scheme of operations and...
Frawley Jr., Keith; Lindsey, Angelo; Williams, Marticia ; Martinez, Christopher
The military’s role in the War on Drugs has had a minimal impact on domestic drug flow and use while tying up resources and manpower needed by combatant commanders conducting operations in support of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The military...
This study is a consideration of the employment of balloons and balloon observation by the American First Army in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Topics include background on balloon observation (prior to the World War and early training), shortage of...
The purpose of this monograph is to illustrate a few of the ways in which two and one half ton amphibian trucks may be successfully employed, and some of the problems encountered in their operation and maintenance in to ETO which affected their...
Egypt and Palestine offered the British an opportunity to fight a war of movement. Unlike the Western Front, Egypt and Palestine were undeveloped with wide expanses of land. It was ripe for the development of maneuver warfare using the mechanical...
The measure of efficiency of a service is its preparedness to take the field. In reviewing the activities of the Field Artillery during the past year, occasion has been taken to refer to conditions
as they existed in this service prior to, during,...
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 paper illustrates how attack upon cities is certain to affect to a greater or less extent the morale of the population. An educated public would be least likely to become panic stricken and should be able to withstand, with some degree of...
This paper discusses air defense of the United States, defining the boundaries of zone of the interior, the amount necessary, proper organization, and control.
This monograph covers the antiaircraft defenses of the Anzio Beachhead from D-day, 22 January 1944 to 31 May 1944, when the breakout from the beachhead proper was affected. Special emphasis is placed on the activities of the 68th C.A. (AA) Regiment...