Aid to training engineer amphibian unit. Covers amphibious operations, engineer special brigades, engineer boat and shore regiments, engineer boat battalions, engineer boat companies, engineer shore battalions, engineer shore companies, brigade...
This is the seventh guide in a series published as an aid to training engineer amphibian units. It is a basic manual for officers and enlisted men in engineer shore battalions and other engineer amphibian units operating on the far shore. It...
Contains an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare. Discusses the balance of U-boat destruction versus construction, anti-aircraft fire from U-boats, enemy U-boat equipment, bombs for anti-submarine warfare, interesting aircraft...
This guide is published as an aid to training engineer amphibian units. It contains the essentials of the mission, procedure and organization of engineer amphibian troops as developed during the past year (1943?). Basic facts are given, as well as...
Contains an analysis of submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, information on interesting aircraft attacks, increasing the number of kills, new technical developments, aircraft and naval recognition, information on losing a wing tip, a...
The observations contained within are submitted for the benefit of staff officers and commanders who one day may be faced with the problem of moving a major force from island to island in the presence of the enemy. Since this movement was the first...
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...
This Manual, prepared under the direction of the Interagency Committee on Search and Rescue (ICSAR), provides guidance to federal agencies concerned with the implementation of the National Search and Rescue Plan. It was intended for use as a...
This manual is based upon the basic principles laid down in the Landing Operation Doctrine, U.S. Navy, (FTP 167), the Ship to Shore Movement (FTP 211), the Transport Doctrine, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and the results of experiences...
Commander Transport Squadron Twelve, US Pacific Fleet
Landing attack orders containing ship-to-shore movement, control plan, beachmaster plan, communication plan, intelligence, smoke plan, medical plan, boat pool plan, pontoon causeway and barge plan.
This document contains a G-2 special study of Iwo Jima. There is an index to standard map symbols, starboard center and profiles of beaches, a vertical photograph of the southern half of the island with beaches superimposed, situation maps, and...
"The following brief history of the steps which have been taken, in this country, to organize a bridge equipage adapted to our service, will sufficiently explain the reasons that have induced the Board to recommend the system described in the...
The purpose of amphibious training for an infantry division is to permit the division to participate in the operations incident to land on a hostile shore in an effective manner. The amphibious phase of an operation is purely a means to an end--the...
This exercise, from a training and tactical viewpoint, consists of a series of exercises in certain phases of a landing operation, special tests bearing on elements of a landing attack or the defense against such an attack, a series of practices of...
The United States submarine force underwent significant improvement between the two world wars. In World War I, United States’ submarines sank no enemy ships. A little over 20 years later the United States’ submarine force crippled Japan’s...
The US is currently involved in a counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq, and similar to the counterinsurgency campaign conducted almost thirty years ago in Vietnam, riverine warfare is an important part. Current riverine forces include the Navy’s...