This booklet consists of extracts from issues of "Battle Experiences", published in the European Theater of Operations from 1 July 1944 to 1 April 1945. This compilation is intended to present certain ideas and methods evolved during more than nine...
This Field Artillery Guide has been designed primarily for field use and reference. The staff of the Field Artillery Journal intends it to give each Field Artilleryman all necessary working data, when supplemented only by the manuals and range...
Marches are classified under two general heads-those executed in the presence of the enemy, in which tactical considerations govern, and those executed in the absence of the enemy.
1916 description, adjustment and operation in drill and target practice / prepared especially for officers and enlisted men of the National Guard, and recommended for their use by the Division of Militia Affairs of the War Department.
"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...
"Wire is one of the principal means of communication for all field artillery except mechanized and antitank artillery. It consists of telephone or telegraph communication. All other means augment and supplement wire."
"This 1944 manual prescribed the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by personnel normally assigned to one gun section of the firing battery."
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Oscar Martinez, Vietnam Vet. It is dated: August 8, 1984. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive. bThe interview was conducted by Master Sergeant Floyd...
Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army
This pamphlet presents material or combat methods used by and against the Japanese and on the effects upon combat of the physical and climatic conditions existing in the theaters where they have been fought. It is designed to assemble in convenient...
FM 6-65, Field Artillery Field Manual, Service of the Piece 75-mm Gun, M1917A1, Truck-drawn, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.
This manual is a guide for the commander the field and personnel of artillery searchlight battery. It will assist the commander in developing the battery into an efficient, smooth working unit capable of operating effectively in combat.
"This 1944 manual prescribes the knowledge and skill required to serve effectively the multiple gun motor carriages M15 and M15A1. Variations in assigned materiel may necessitate changes in the prescribed drill."
This manual is intended to prescribe the duties to be performed by the personnel manning antiaircraft machine guns, and to explain the mechanical action of the gun and the workings of related materiel so that antiaircraft machine-gun equipment.
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Mr. John G. Oechsner. It is dated: January 19, 1982. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive. The interview was conducted by Sergeant Major Erwin H. Koehler,...