This volume contains information on the following topics: German Air Force, Royal Air Force, story of VIII Fighter Command, staff work at command and the planning of missions, enemy reactions, divebombing, and strafing, D-Day and after.
This directive prescribes uniform procedures and establishes responsibilities during peacetime and contingencies for regulating the transfer of patients from overseas to the continental United States (CONUS); the transfer of patients between...
This paper seeks to answer the question of whether or not the modern threat environment should drive U.S. Army Attack Aviation to shift its focus from the deep fight to the close battle. The paper concludes that the modern threat of asymmetric...
This monograph gives the historical background to the creation of Army aviation as a separate branch of the U.S. Army. The branch was created in April of 1983 after a series of exhaustive studies and numerous general officer debates. Ultimately,...
The instructions, explanations and suggestions are intended to orient the instructors and the student body as to the policy to be followed in the School and to secure uniformity of doctrine and teachings. The memorandum details the School of the...
This 1985 ARTEP has been developed as a training and evaluation tool for all corps field artillery sections, headquarters and headquarters batteries for all division artilleries, headquarters and headquarters batteries for all field artillery...
The aim and duty of the artillery is to deliver effective fire when and where needed. Proposes that the problem of delivering effective fire on a given point at a given time is largely one of technique. Talks focus primarily on technique.
Contains general information on artillery command, planning the attack, positioning, equipment preparations; mission support; barrage and bombardment; ammunitions; and advancement.
Contains instructions to artillery information officers on their functions and duties to furnish information on enemy artillery activity and provide the information necessary for the mission execution of field artillery units.
This pamphlet focuses on the importance of counter-battery work. It is a continuous operation depending for success on accuracy of fire, continuity of plan, unremitting study and firm control.
This student paper reveals information about German and Russian artillery including each one's organization, weapons, tactical employment (offensive and defensive operations) and general technique, along with lessons learned.
This paper focuses on the problem of the proper and probable employment with the introduction of the light, fast, fighting vehicle, whether called an armored car and manned by a cavalryman, or a tank and manned by an infantryman. The tank attacks...
This is a critical examination of the combat glider as used in World War II. This study uses the Market-Garden airborne invasion of Holland in 1944 to determine whether the glider was cost effective as a system of airborne assault. Cost...
The purpose of this study is to discover the various cases on Aviation laws which have been decided in the courts of last resort of the various jurisdictions of the United States and other countries, and classify them under the general...
This historical study investigates the military effectiveness and combat power of Civil War balloons. The categories inherent to military effectiveness include timeliness, accuracy, usefulness, operational considerations, and logistics. Limited by...
"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...
Chief Signal Officer, United States of America War Office; War Department
This text includes signal regulations and technical information needed by officers and enlisted men of arms other than the Signal Corps engaged in signal communication. It supplements the matter contained in chapter 7, Basic Field Manual, Volume...