"This manual furnishes a guide for the training and employment of the personnel and for the use of the equipment pertaining to observation battalions."
The purpose of this manual is to provide a text on map and aerial photography reading for training of military personnel already familiar with basic elements covered by FM 21-25 or who require more detailed instruction than is furnished by FM...
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps., Quartermaster School (U.S.)
This document contains a compilation of important orders issued by the A.E.F. on the subject of supply, with comments by authoritative officers on the various phases of problems.
This journal consists of operations and planning of the United States Marine Corps Fleet Marine Force for the seizure, capture, occupation, and defense of Iwo Jima.
USAF Historical Division, Air University; Taylor, Joe Gray
This monograph covers the development of United States Air Force night operations through World War II in detail. It gives brief treatment to the period between wars, and treats of night air operations in Korea through 30 June 1952. It details...
This thesis examines the Iowa class battleships and whether they hold utility for the future. There is a myriad of writings concerning the history of the battleships and the arguments both for and against. The author uses this history to determine...
Translated and edited at the War College from the French language. Contains information on commanding artillery units, mission execution, and defensive fires.
FM 1-15 1942 details the objectives of air fighting, tactical plans, factors affecting air fighting, organization and employment of pursuit aviation, air tactics of pursuit aviation, and tactics of aircraft fighting defensively.
The purpose of this manual is to provide a guide for the technical training of the personnel employed in the determination and application of firing data for seacoast artillery. This manual, on the principles of fire control and position finding,...
This FM describes elementary ballistics, effects of projectiles and fuze action, dispersion, the firing battery (initial laying, commands, and reports; fire commands and their execution), and observed fires.
The chapters in this FM 6-40 document include information on the firing battery, elementary ballistics and dispersion, effects of projectiles, preparation of fire, conduct of fire, technique of fire direction, dead space, visibility, calibration,...
The purpose of the manual is to outline the Aircraft Warning Service and its agencies, to prescribe its mission and the responsibilities of various agencies concerned, to describe its functions, to cover the organization of its agencies, the...
The purpose of this manual is to establish standard practices for the installation, operation, and maintenance of field wire systems of tactical units. Such standardization is essential to efficient wire communication. The individual duties of wire...
The military police consists of personnel authorized to a commander to assist him in the enforcement of laws, regulations, and orders, and for other purposes as outlined in this manual. Subjects included in this field manual are organization,...
The purpose of this manual is to serve as a guide in the identification of United States Government aircraft. Visible features, methods of operation, sounds, and model designation are discussed.
This manual deals with oceangoing vessels operated or utilized by the Transportation Corps and with the general organization and procedures applying to those ships. No attempt is made here to specify in detail, responsibilities, operating...
In coast defense, the general mission of the armed forces is to prevent or repel a landing by hostile forces on United States soil or in any theater of operations designated by the President, and includes all measures taken to provide protection...