The Capture of the German Rocket Secrets (1945)
In February 1945, Peter Beasley, who was serving as a colonel in the U.S. Army at the…
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Illustrated pamphlet by Creighton Williams and Verne Bowers for the US Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Teaches military map reading and direction finding, and intended to complement existing doctrinal literature TC 21-26. "Don't Get Lost" was written by the US Army Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and is a publication of th...
The purpose of this pamphlet is to support the U.S. Army Command Maintenance Program (COMAINT). It is designed to provide supervisors and other users with a consolidated, simplified reference on use of troubleshooting equipment authorized at the organizational maintenance level.
This training circular was written by the U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, TX, and published by the U.S. Army Combat Arms Training Board, Fort Benning, GA. The information conforms as closely as possible with approved Department of the Army doctrine and is intended to complement existing training literature.
Who's Who in Military History (published 1976)
General Military Books
After the last shell was fired on the western front in the First World War. and the last bullet was spent, the study of war and military history was cast by society into the outer circles of Hell. True, the mountain of memoirs, debates, arguments and petty squabbles grew every year, but the serious study of war went out of fashion. Now, in an ag...
This pamphlet was designed to provide U.S. combat infantry men with a ready reference to key Warsaw Pact weapons and equipment. The illustrated booklet was published in 1979 by the United States Army Infantry School - Red Team and United States Government Printing Office.
U. S. BOMBERS is a complete genealogy of the American bombardment plane from the original Keystone XB-1 of 1928, to the latest strategic bombers plying the skies today. Each of the numbered designs following the pioneer XB-1 is fully illustrated with photos and three-view general arrangement drawings. Also, the major features, including dimensio...
Combat Aircraft (published 1984)
Aircraft
It was a little over eighty years ago that the first "heavier than air" flying machine actually to take off from the ground was built. A few years later, at the beginning of World War I, combat aircraft appeared and added a new dimension to warfare. At first, military aircraft were used simply for spying on the enemy. Very quickly, however, they...
Military Planes (published 1985)
Aircraft
The first aerial combats took place over France in World War I. In the earliest combats, known as dogfights, pilots often were armed only with pistols. If the planes carried bombs, they were aimed and dropped by hand. The earliest planes were built as scouts, not fighting machines.
The first military helicopters to fly with the American Air Commando in 1944 during its operations in Burma were experimental machines. But the following year the Sikorsky R-4s came into service with the American army for reconnaissance. They had been developed by Ivan Sikorsky’s company.
The Official Dictionary of Military Terms (published 1988)
General Military Books
This hardbound edition contains the complete text of the official Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms and was compiled and prepared by The Joint Military Terminology Group under the direction and authority of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Service...
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