This 1958 manual is a guide for field artillery officers and commanders and staffs of all combat arms. It is concerned with the tactical employment of field artillery.
This study compares principles and doctrine of the US and Britain's antiaircraft defense including the author's opinion and experience in service with the British Antiaircraft School.
This paper discusses air defenses of Germany, France, England, and the United States. The author analyses what the defensive means were for each country before and during the war, and the importance of a planned and proper defense during all...
This study illustrates the fact that the French are well aware of the potential danger of hostile attack aviation. Definite steps in the protection of French population have been hampered in the past by the lack of funds but the (1934)...
This volume deals with the organization, armament, equipment, and employment of fixed, railway, and tractor drawn coast artillery, and with harbor defense searchlights.
"The coast artillery troops are charged with the care and use of the fixed and mavable elements of the seaward nad landward defense of the coast fortifications, including guns,mortars, submarine mines, and torpedoes. The coast artillery supports...
This 1930 training manual on submarine mining includes the following sections: general principles of submarine mine defense; organization, command, and administration; description and operation of casemate and electrical equipment; submarine mine...
Topics of this document include warfare, leadership and its means, tactics of the single arms (infantry and its auxiliary arms, artillery, cavalry, additional machine gun organization, pioneers, aerial fighting forces and defense, communication...
United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas
Contains descriptions of the Japanese defensive operations from information gained following the surrender of the islands under Truk headquarters. Includes listings of army strength, units and locations, communications, artillery and ordnance, and...
Includes instructions issued to observers (observation post organizers, chief observers, orientation card, volunteer observer’s button, and flash message form/message/symbols), multiple interviews, views of A.D. Comdr. on a unified air defense,...
This study discusses what provisions, other than those prescribed in War Department Training Regulations and technical papers, can be instituted to insure continuity of control and performance of seacoast installations in battle.
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...