Combat Lessons (1944-1945)
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Combat Lessons. Rank and file in combat: What they're doing How they do
it. War Department (1944-1945)
No.1-5
- No.1; 55 pages, 9 illus. Price
6.00 {Item No.6400}
- No.2; 71 pages, 11 illus. Price
7.00 {Item No.6415}
- No.3; 90 pages, 12illus. Price
9.00 {Item No.6443}
- No.4; 87 pages, 26 illus. Price
9.00 {Item No.6472}
- No.5; 90 pages, 18 illus. Price
9.00 {Item No.6499}
- No.6; 89 pages, 34 illus. Price
9.00 {Item No.6528}
- No.7; 58 pages, 29 illus. Price
6.00 {Item No.6547}
- No.8; 42 pages, 30 illus. Price
5.00 {Item No.6561}
- No.9; 43 pages, 29 illus. Price
5.00 {Item No.6572}
- War Dept.Pamphlet No.20-17; 110 pages, 21 illus. Price
11.00 {Item No.6585}
Combat Lessons Number 1; 55 pages, 9 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.6400}
Section One - Infantry; 35 pages, illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.6401}
- Battle Leadership; 6 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6402}
[Includes: Junior Officer in Battle, Hate Your Enemy, Leaders in Front,
Keep Them Moving, NCO Leadership, Keep Your Mission in Mind (Patrolling),
Team Up, Rally Point, Fear in Normal]
- Sicily - Italy - Attu; 5 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6403}
[Includes: Night Attack: Surprise Saves Lives, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Small
Arms Against Armor, Platoon Action, Knocking Out Pillboxes, Individual Initiative,
Action on Attu]
- The South Pacific; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6404}
[Includes: Security in the Jungle, In Bivouac, On the March]
- Jungle Notes; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.6405}
[Includes: Aggressive Action, Flexible Plans, Feeding the Troops, Counterintelligence]
- Scouting and Patrolling; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6406}
[Including: Patrolling in the Jungle, Don't Forget the "Where",
- or the "What, Patrol Tips, Size of Patrols, "Say It With Pictures]
- Infantry Weapons; 6 pages Price .50 {Item No.6407}
[Includes: In Jungle Warfare: Basic Weapons, 4.2" Chemical Mortar;
In Sicily: Advance Guard, Pyrotechnics, Miscellaneous Comment; At Salerno:
The Bazooka Worked]
- Infantry-Artillery Team; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6408}
[Includes: Artillery "Close" Support, - And How it Worked, Massed
Fires]
- Infantry-Tank Team; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6409}
[Includes: Opportunity Lost, Lessoin Learned, Infantry-Tank Attack]
- Ranger Training; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6410}
[Includes: Buddy System, Realism, Recognition, Formations, Cooking, Physical
Conditioning, Discipline]
Section Two - Field Artillery; 9 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6411}
[Includes: Artillery in the Jungle, Antipersonnel Fire, Dealing with Tree
Snipers, Adjustment of Fire, Morale Effect, Ammunition and Fuzes, Disposition,
Liaison, Ideas from Italy, Reinforcing Fire, Transportation, Fire Direct Center,
Pack Boards for Observers]
Section Three - Miscellaneous; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6412}
[Includes: Booby Traps, Timeliness of Orders, Maps, AA Fire, Security, Strafing
Aircraft, "Gas!", Counterattack Foiled, Room for Improvement]
Section Four - Notes on the NIPs; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6413}
[Includes: Japanese Pillboxes, Superman Myth Exploded, Jap Trap, Defensive
Action, Vine Entanglements]
Section Five - Hints on the Heinie; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6414}
[Includes: Reverse Slope Tactics, Don't Gawk!, Traps and Mines, Minor Tactics,
Typical Attack and Withdrawal, Rearguard Action, Dealing with Tree Snipers]
Combat Lessons Number 2; 71 pages, 11+ illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.
6415}
Section One - Leadership; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6416}
[Leaders vs. Inertia, Discipline, Trail by Fire]
Section Two - Normal Operations; 30 pages, 7+ illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6417}
- Combat in Towns; 8 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6418}
[Includes: Introduction, Attack of Towns, Entering Towns, Defense of Towns]
- Battalion Attack - Italy; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6419}
[Includes: Mission, Contact, Plan of Maneuver, Base of Fire, Results, Planning,
Comment]
- Fighting in Wooded Terrain; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6420}
- Infantry Notes; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6421}
[Includes: The Importance of Speed, The Herd Instinct, German Registered
Fires, Base of Fire, Teamwork, - In Which the Outposts Were Not "Posted"]
- Field Artillery Notes; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6422}
[Includes: Artillery vs. Tanks, The Observation Battalion in Action, Night
Reconnaissance, Use of Artillery Observation Planes, Observers on Their
Own, Orientation and Survey]
- Notes From Other Arms; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6423}
[Includes: Tanks: Keep off the Sky Line!, AAA: Absence Makes the Heart Grow
Fonder, 4.2" Chemical Mortars: Target Practice]
- Radio Communications; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6424}
[Includes: Radio Discipline, Training of AAF Radio Mechanics, German Countermeasures,
Comment]
- Intelligence; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6425}
[Includes: Captured Documents, Overdoing the "Buddy" System, Password
and Countersign]
- Training Notes; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6426}
[Includes: Speed Marching, Reports and Messages, "Change Posts",
Combat Training for Engineers, Miscellaneous Notes]
- Combat Zone Miscellany; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6427}
[Includes: AA Small Arms Fires Discipline, Hygiene: Any Day Is Saturday,
Dirts Breed Infection, Sandbagging Vehicles, A Foxhole in Time Saves Lives,
Use of the Compass]
Section Three - Mountain Operations; 19 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6428}
- Battalion Attack; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6429}
- - as Seen by the Staff; 7 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6430}
[Battalion Attack, - As Seen by the Staff: Mission, Use of Panoramic Sketch,
Preparatory Fires, Communications, Tactical Plan, Radio Control, The Action,
Supporting Fire, Orders, Subsequent Action]
- - as Seen by the Soldier; 11 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6431}
[Battalion Attack, - As Seen by the Soldier: The Attack on Point 5, The
Approach, Contact, Jap Counterattack, The Radio Fails, Our Attack Repulsed,
The Main Attack, The Taking of Point "A", Comment]
- Field Artillery Notes; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6432}
[Includes: Use of Artillery Spotting Planes in Mountainous Terrain, Get
a Horse!]
- Engineer Operations; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.6433}
[Includes: The "Engineer War" in Italy, Paving the Way]
- Tanks; 1 paragraph Price .50 {Item No.6434}
[Includes: Ideal vs. Practicable]
Section Four - Jungle Operations; 17 pages, 2+ illus. Price .50 {Item No.6435}
- Infantry Notes; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6436}
[Includes: Formations, Automatic Weapons, Night Operations, Security Measures,
-During Halts, Security at Night, Protection of Lines of Communications,
Patrol Reports, Outposts and Patrols]
- Field Artillery Notes; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6437}
[Includes: Supporting Fires, Liaison and Observation, Control, Concentrations,
Adjustment of Fire, Limitations, Effects of Fires, Handling Smoke Shell]
- Tank Operations; 3 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6438}
[Includes: Tanks Can be Used, Cooperation Necessary, Application of Fire
Power, Jap Magnetic Mines, Slow Work, Routes of Advance, "Mass",
Limitations]
- Transportation; 1 page, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6439}
[Includes: Use of Vehicles, Maintenance]
- Air Support; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.6440}
[Includes: Difficulties Encountered, Targets, Liaison]
- Supply and Evacuation; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6441}
[Includes: Supply in the Jungle, Water Supply, Necessity: Mother of Invention,
The Supply Line, Ammunition Supply, Evacuation Methods, Physical Fitness,
Improvisation, Protection of Evacuation Routes, Medical Notes] [Pages 66-70]
- Wire Communications; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.6442}
[Includes: Stringing W-130 in the Jungle, Test Stations, Sound Power Phones,
Under-Water Wire]
Combat Lessons Number 3; 90 pages, 12+illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.
6443}
Section One - Leadership; 10 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6444}
- Leadership and Command; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.6445}
[Includes: Needs for Leadership, Course for NCOs, Some Aspects of Leadership,
Irresponsibility, Widespread Effect, Practice and More Practice, Theory
Not Enough, Leadership on the Beach]
- Administration, Supply, and Sanitation; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6446}
[Includes: Duty Rosters, No "Duds" Need Apply, Sanitation and
Health]
- Orientation; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6447}
[Includes: The Need for Explanation, Method of Dissemination, Tell the Story,
After-the-Fight Conference, "They Eat It Up"]
- Battlefield Gallantry; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6448}
[Includes: He Didn't Know When He Was Beaten, "Crazy Americans",
Protection By Valor, Keep the Guns Fed, Trailor Explodes, No Surrender]
Section Two - Normal Operations; 47 pages, 4+ illus. Price .50 {Item No.6449}
- Comments on River Crossing; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6450}
[Includes: Cross Expedients, Communications, Guarding Against Tanks, Smoke]
- Reorganization After the Attack; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6451}
[Includes: Don't Waste Time, Delay Brings Trouble, Sergeant Gives Example,
Keep Forward Observer on the Ball, How We Reorganize, Getting Ready for
the Counterattack, Avoid the Crests, Reorganization Aided by Prior Planning,
Methods Used, Comment]
- Patrolling; 7 pages, illus. Price 1.90 {Item No.6452}
[Includes: Blend With Your Background, One Mission Per Patrol, Dispatching
Patrols, Composition of Night Patrols, Training New Men, Rifle Fire 'Taboo',
Motorized Patrols, Comment, Patrol Weakness, Poor Map Reading, Objectives
Not Obtained, Patrols Can Get Results, Germans Jittery]
- Infantry Notes; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6453}
[Includes: Inter-unit Liaison, Assaulting Stone-House Strong Points, The
Solution, Slow But Sure, Use Your Rifle, Comment, Zero the Rifle, Weapon
Confidence]
- Notes on Training; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6454}
[Includes: How I Would Train a Company Now]
- Combat Miscellany; 8 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6455}
[Includes: Random Notes, Flanking Out Machine Guns, Importance of Small
Arms Fire, Comment Existence, Cooking, Digging, Marching, How to Prevent
Trench Foot, Silence is Security, The Hard Way Is Safer, Souvenir Saboteurs,
Gas-Cape Float, Improvised Oil-Drum Oven]
- Field Artillery Notes; 8 pages, 1 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6456}
[Includes: Artillery Air OP, Two to Five Missions Per Day, Combat Notes,
Gunnery, Firing Battery, Slit-Trench Relay, Communication, Observation,
Command Post Operation, Antitank Platoon, Stripped Battalion, Protective
Measures, Artillery Decoy, Sound and Flash, Ingenity at 16,000 Meters, "Find
That Keg"]
- Notes from Other Arms; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.6457}
[Includes: Tank Operations, Penalty of Carelessness, Using the 4.2-in. Chemical
Mortar, Examples, 4.2-in. Chemical Mortars in Action, Choosing Locations]
- Communications; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6458}
[Includes: Don't Adjust Enemy Artillery, Common Violations of Radio Security,
Unusual Consideration, Dig In, Disclosed by Your Code, A Real Convenience]
- Motors and Traffic; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6459}
{Includes: Motors Need Maintenance, Corrective Measures, Be Winch Conscious,
Keep Your Distance, Gasoline Gadget, Permanent Culverts From Oil Drums and
Concrete]
Section Three - Mountain Operations; 4 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6460}
[Includes: Infantry Notes: Villages in Mountains, Attacking a Village, "The
Enemy's Mortars, Infantry Heavy Weapons In The Mountains, Rifle and Stove, Hot
Food for the Front Line]
Section Four - Jungle Operations; 15 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6461}
- Essentials of Jungle Warfare; 5 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6462}
[Includes: Jungle SOP, "Musts" for the Jungle Soldier, Military
Mapping and Sketching in Combat Areas, 81-mm in the Jungle, Neutralizing
Ann (Malaria)]
- Patrolling; 9 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6463}
[Includes: Jungle Craft, Jap Ambushes, Organization of a Jungle Patrol,
Native Bearers, Formation of Jungle Patrol, If Attacked Enroute, Night Bivouac,
Teamwork, Essential Subjects, Jungle Patrol Pointers, Jap Reaction, Basic
Principles, Dummy Installations, Jungle Ambush, Good Use for Old Blades]
Section Five - Amphibious Operations; 14 pages, 2 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6464}
- Island Landings; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6465}
[Includes: Infantry, Fighting Spirit, Tanks, Field Artillery, Engineers,
Debarkation Tips]
- Reducing Bunkers; 3 pages, x illus. Price .50 {Item No.6466}
[Includes: Technique, The Approach, Use of Smoke and Incendiaries, Basi
Requirements, Comment]
- Antiaircraft; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6467}
[Includes: AA on the Beaches, Aircraft Recognition]
- Naval Craft; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6468}
[Includes: LCI in Assault, The Action, Recommendations]
- Engineers; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6469}
[Includes: Amphibious Engineers As Infantry, - In Action]
- Equipment; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6470}
[Includes: DUKW's at Salarno]
- Notes from the South Pacfic; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6471}
[Includes: Transportation, DUKWs, Special Use, Hand Firing the 60-mm Mortar,
Useful on Landing Operations, Remedy for Contamination by the Sea Water]
Combat Lessons Number 4; 87 pages, 26 illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.
6472}
Section One - Leadership; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6473}
[Includes: Leadership in Small Units: Typical Comments, A Fighting Soldier,
Round One, Round Two, Round Three]
Section Two - Normal Operations; 41 pages, 14 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6474}
- Fighting in Normandy; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6475}
[Includes: Bucking the Hedgerows, Cross Section of Typical Normandy Hedgerow,
The German Defense, Sniper Trouble, Enemy in Ambush, German Weapons, Our
Attack]
- Tank-Infantry Combine; 11 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6476}
[Includes: Teamwork the Key, Elements of the Plan, The Advance, Corps Commander's
Comment, Limited Objectives, Personal Reconnaissance, Bulldozer Tanks, Fighting
Infantry, Hedgerow Hints, Hedgerow Explosives, Lean on the Artillery Preparation,
The Useful 4.2, Battlefield Recovery Under Fire]
- Air Support in France; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6477}
[Includes: Close Support by Fighter Planes, Tank Trap, The Surrender, Antiaircraft
in Combat]
- Fighting in Italy; 11 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6478} [Includes:
Notes form the Beachhead, Morale, Comment, Unpopular Vistors, Positions
of CPs, Fire Fighting with Tankdozers, Silent Security (Improvised Trip
flare warning device), Animated Mine Exploders, Wanted: 300 Sheep (for mine
clearing), Rifle Grenade Grapnel Aids in Clearing Tripwires, Details of
Construction, Firing Procedure and Range, Comments, Hide Your AT Guns, Vistors
Not Desired]
- Field Artillery; 8 pages, 2 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6479}
[Includes: Life of a Liaison Officer, Forward Observers, Planned Observation,
Maintain Freedom of Action, Teach Enlisted Personnel to Conduct Fire, Rules
for Observers, Aerial Observation, The Artillery "Jeep Plane",
Bore Coppering, 105-mm Howitzer, Tanks in Anzio]
- Communications; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6480} [Includes:
Tricks of the Trade]
- Engineers; 4 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6481} [Includes:
Security for Engineer Working Parties]
- Chemical Warfare; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6482}
[Includes: Widespread Use of Chemical Smoke, Coverage for a Bridge, Screening
240-mm Howitzers, HC Smoke Poisoning]
- Medical Training; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6483} [Includes:
Infantry Subjects, Medical Detachment Notes]
- Combat Hints; 1 Paragraph Price .50 {Item No.6484}
Section Three - Jungle Operations; 30 pages, 9 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6485}
- Basic Doctrines, New Settings; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6486} [Includes:
Effect of Jungle on Infantry Techniques, Action Techniques, Comment]
- Scouting, Patrolling, Sniping; 13 pages, 3 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6487} [Includes:
Skill Save Lives, The Need for Training, Ambush Patrols, Preliminary Reconnaissance,
Nipping the Nips, Sniper Selection and Training, Lessons from Experience,
Chosing Bivouac Area, Tips, The Reconnaissance Troop in the Jungle, Types
of Operations, Local Security, Trail Formation, Weapons and Equipment, Use
of Natives, Results, Fire Teams, Comment]
- Defensive Techniques; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6488} [Includes:
Organizing Night Security, All Telephones Manned, Curing "Trigger Jitters",
Comment, Hold Your Positions]
- Infantry Weapons; 8 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6489}
[Includes: Mortars in the Jungle, Adjusting Mortar Fire, Tree Climbers Sometimes
Useful, , Flamethrower, General Conclusions, The Machine Gun in the Jungle,
Using the Pack Carrier (with the Light Machine Gun)]
- Artillery Observations; 1 page Price .50 {Item No.6490}
[Includes: Crossing Streams, Sensing by Sound, Keeping Dispersed]
- Attack of Bunker Positions; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6491}
[Includes: Finding the Blind Spot, Delivering the Knockout, Good Marksmanship
Essential, Daring But Profitable, Mopping Up Bunkers]
- Tanks in The South Seas; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6492} [Includes:
Light vs. Medium, Tank-Bulldozer Combination, Comment]
- Combating Malaria; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6493}
[Includes: The Mosquito Hazard, Atabrine Treatment, Comment]
Section Four - Amphibious Operations; 13 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6494}
- Normandy Beaches; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6495} [Includes:
Clearing Beach Obstacles, The Landing, Widening the Breach]
- Los Negros Island; 6 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6496} [Includes:
A Wading Envelopment, Situation, Reconnaissance, Information Obtained, The
Plan, The Attack, Conclusion]
- Kwajalein Island; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6497}
[Includes: Weapons Training, Communicaitions, Comment, Night Fighting, Comment,
Bunker and Pill Boxes]
- Amphibious Miscellany; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6498}
[Includes: Identification of Landing Craft, Souvenir-Hunters a Liability,
Keep the Rifle Firing]
Combat Lessons Number 5; 90 pages, 18+ illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.
6499}
Section I - Leadership; 10 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6500}
[Includes: Aggressive Action, Quick Training, Confident Tone of Voice, Moral
Support, Gallantry, High Standards Pay Off, Good Leadership Develops Discipline,
Energy and Drive, Leadership in Small Units]
Section II - Normal Operations; 44 pages, 9+ illus. Price .50 {Item No.6501}
- Notes on Attacking; xx pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6502} [Includes:
Attack Before Dawn, Attack Before Dark, Keep Close to Our Artillery, Delay
Means More Casualities, The Bazooka Works Again, Using Artillery the Right
Way, Don't Freeze Under Fire, Keep Driving, The Old Story - Bunching, Consolidate
Quickly, Move forward to Safety, Infantry Against Armor in Close Country]
- The Tank-Infantry Team; 7 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6503}
[Includes: Control, Visual Signal, Coordination, Tank Lessons from Italy,
Tanks with an Advance Guard, Attack on the Siefried Line, Comments of G-3,
3rd Armored Division, Defiles]
- Air Support of Armored Columns; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6504}
[Includes: Communications, A Successful Mission, Accuracy, Tactical Reconnaissance,
Location of ASPO]
- Engineer; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6505}
[Includes: Demolition of Pillboxes, Sealing Capture Pillboxes, Stream Crossing,
Camouflage]
- Reconnaissance; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6506}
[Includes: Reconnaissance on Pursuit, Why Ask for It?]
- Notes on Patrolling; xx pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6507} [Includes:
Field Jacket Reflects Light, Reconnaissance Patrols, Patrol Communications,
Consider Enemy Capabilities]
- Antiaircraft Aritillery; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6508} [Includes:
AA Troops in Close Combat, M16 vs. Ground Targets]
- Field Artillery; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6509}
[Includes: Infantrymen as Artillery Observers, Team Play by Observers, 8-inch
Guns Attack St.Malo Citadel, 240-mm Howitzer, Sniping with an Assault Gun]
- Exploits of Cub Planes; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6510}[Includes:
Cub Plane vs. Mark VI Tank, Cub Contact, Cubs "Bomb" and Strafe]
- Medical Matters; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6511}
[Includes: Medics on the Job, Trench Foot, First Aid, Cutting Clothing from
Wounded]
- Communications; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6512}
[Includes: Trouble shooting in Italy, More Grief for the Lineman, Sound
Power Phone, Watch that Antenna, Authentication]
- Infantry Weapons; 4 pages Price .50 {Item No.6513} [Includes:
Beware of the "Blow Back" (using signals), M1 Grenade Launcher,
Browning Automatic Rifle, '03' Rifle with Scope, Bazooka vs. Machine Gun,
Carbine, Hand Grenade, Mortar Cleaning Kit, Using Enemy Weapons, Jap Mortar
Ammunition, German Mortar]
- Liaison Officers; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6514} [Includes:
Selection of Liaison Officers, Personality]
- Motor Movements; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6515}
[Includes: Route Marking]
Section III - Airborne Operations; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6516} [Includes:
Disrupting the Enemy Rear, Parachute Lessons from SWPA, Pilot Training,
Jump Practice, Air Reconnaissance of Jump Areas, Air Strips, Transportation,
Location of Troops in Jungle]
Section IV - Amphibious Operations; 14 pages, 4+ illus. Price .50 {Item No.6517}
- Normandy; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6518}
[Includes:
Amphibious Assault, Control by Commanders, Tanks in the Normandy Landing,
Coordination with Infantry, Flexible Employment]
- An Amphibious Tank Battalion in Action; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6519}[Includes:
Terrain Difficulties, "The Best-Laid Plans-", Paddies Impassable,
Artillery Fire, Right Flank Operations, Operations on the 0-1 Line, D Plus
Operations, Maintenance, Cleaning Out Caves]
- Amphibious Miscellany; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6520} [Includes:
Learn to Swim, Pointers on Unloading, Inter-Cam System on Amphibious Tractor]
- New Methods of Reviving Drowned Personnel; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6521} [Includes:
Eve's Method, Basic Principle, Assistants Necessary, The System, Practice,
Advantages]
- A Shore-to-Shore Operation; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6522}
[Includes:
Landing Mission, Only a Few Boats Available, Preparatory Fires, Only a Few
Boats Available, Preparatory and Supporting Fires, The Crossing]
Section V - Jungle Operations; 18 pages, 3+ illus. Price .50 {Item No.6523}
- Perimeter Defense; 4 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item No.6524} [Includes:
Infiltration, Warning Devices, Use of Alternate Positions, 4.2 inch Mortars,
Artillerymen Need Infantry Training, Interpreter on Night Patrol, Jap Artillery
Tactics, QM Security in SWPA]
- Scouting and Patrolling; 5 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6525}
[Includes:
Ambush in the Jungle, Jungle Patrol Hints, He Learned the Hard Way]
- Jungle Pointers; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6526}
[Includes:
Hot Carbine, Jungle Litter, Tanks in the Jungle]
- Burma Notes; 6 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6527} [Includes:
"Merrill's Marauders", Animal Transport, Nisei for Combat Intelligence,
Recognition of Foot Prints, Cellophone Bags for Maps, Map for Every Soldier,
Jap Ambush, Keep Your Eyes Open, Ding How, Dogs, Tree Bursts, Improvising
Bunks in the Jungle, Camouflage, Withdrawal Across A River Under Attack,
A Marauder Operation]
Combat Lessons Number 6; 89 pages, 34 illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.
6528}
- Leadership; 10 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6529} [Includes:
What the GI Wants in His Leaders, Leadership Rises to Emergencies, Leadership
Exploits Surprise, Leadership Means Quick Planning, Leadership Is Aggressive,
Leadership Means Assuming Responsibility, Leaders Must Maintain Control,
Make Intelligent Use of Junior Leaders, Leadership Involves Personal Contact,
Briefing - A "Must" in Practical Leadership, Don't Overdo Example
Leadership]
- Street Fighting; 10 pages, 6 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6530}
[Includes: Boundaries Between Units, Zones of Unit Action, Routes of Advance,
Enemy Firing Positions, Entry of Buildings, Demolition Practices, Demolitions
Teams, Burning Buildings, Relief of Units, Use of 60-mm Mortar Shell, Aerial
Photographs, Rifle-Platoon Employment, Principles of Street Fighting, Tanks
in Village Fighting, - During the Approach, - Within the Village, - After
the Attack, Ricochet Fire]
- Patrolling
- - Patrol Tips from ETO; 8 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6531} [Including: Comments from Experiened Patrolmen, Make Patrol Gains
Permanent, Transmitting Patrol Information, Patrol Method of Noiseless River
Crossing, Locating Method for Night Patrols, Demolition Men on Patrols,
Booby-Trap "Baton", Preventing Wear and Tear, Foregone Conclusion]
- - Jungle Patrolling; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6532}
[Including: Jungle Patrol Pointers, Jungle Patrol Errors]
- - Patrol Communications; 3 pages Price .50 {Item
No.6533} [Including: Radio Check Calls, Patrol Control by Telephone, Wire
Communication Method for Patrols, Communications Caution, Reducing Receiver
Noises, Night Patrol Use of Luminous Watches]
- Popular Mechanics Battle-Front Style; 7 pages, 5 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6534} [Including: Shoes for Dogs, Collapsible Shower, Bamboo
Pipe Line, Water Heating in the Jungle, Home Made Water Trailer, Improvised
Gas Lantern Mantles, Filtering Gasoline for Lanterns, Front Line Stove,
Keep It Hot!, Improvised Map Protectors, De Mechanized Warfare (Horse and
buggy)]
- "Beyond the Call of Duty; 2 pages, illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6535} [Heroic account]
- Communications Comments; 8 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6536} [Includes: Conditioning of Personnel, - For Mountain Warfare, -
For Landing Operations, Projecting Wire across a Stream, - By Rifle Grenade,
- By Bazooka Round, Message to Messagers, Conference Circuits in Battle,
Directional Antenna for SCR-610, Stretching SCR-300 Antennas, Test Radios
under Operating Conditions, The OLd Chestnut - Radio Security, "Giving
Away" Procedure Signals]
- Your Secondary Mission; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6537} [Includes: Report All Hostile Weapons, Keep Contact on the March,
Police that Wire!, Inform Litter Bearers about Mined Areas, Don't Neutralize
This Enemy Propaganda, Importance of Shell Reports]
- Armored Notes
- - Advice to Tank Crews; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6538} [Includes: Don't Take Chances - Fire!, Stay in Your Tank, Careful
Terrain Study Pays Off, Try to Save Wounded Tanks, Be Ready for Infantry
Role, Flares Help Keep Contact, Antidim for Tank Sighting Instruments, Watch
out for This One]
- - Tank-Infantry Teamwork; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6539} [Includes: Don't Outrun Your Support, Team Play Requires Effective
Control]
- - Tank-Destroyer Tips; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6540} [Includes: ID Finesse, Air Reconnaissance by TD Leaders, Locating
Enemy Tanks at Night, Sneak Approach, TD's Lend Helping Hand, Camouflaging
an M10 TD, More Traction for Tank Destroyers, Armored Battalion Communications]
- - Reconnaissance Comments; 1 page Price .50 {Item
No.6541} [Includes: Make Way for the Engineers, Extra Smoke for Reconnaissance
Squadrons]
- It's Your Life; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6542}
[Includes: "Meow" and "Woof" - Never "Tweet"!(No
bird calls as signals at night), Put This in YOUR Pipe (Don't use Tobacco
at night), Stay in Your Hole, Help the Medic to Help You, Conceal Field
Glasses, WARNING! Before Entering Pillboxes or Caves (No Air in them), Heinie
Sez (Getting POW to surrender their weapons first, Camouflage at Night,
Too, ABC's of Self-Preservation, Careless Challenging Causes Casualties]
- Amphibious Pointers; 8 pages, 4 illus. Price 1.00 {Item
No.6543} [Includes: Maintenance of Vehicles and Weapons, Small Arms Maintenance,
Individual Equipment, Priority on Drinking Water, Some Experiences in Gapping
Beach Obstacles, - Mission, - Organization and Plan, - Obstacles Encountered,
- Divergences from the Plan, Lessons Learned in Normandy]
- OP's and FO's; 6 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6544}
[Includes: OP Security - It's Gotta Be Good, Packboard for FO Radios, Phone
for FO Radio Operator, British Comment on OP Security, Control of Forward
Observers, Use NCO's as Observers, Don't Pin Down the FO's, FO Security,
FO Responsibility, Warning to OP Kibitzers]
- The Gun Shop; 5 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6545}
[Includes: More MG Ammunitionn at Hand (M3 SMG with 3 clips strapped together),
Ersatz Bazooka Batteries (Improvised (nonissue) batteries), Use of
60-mm Mortar as Rifle Grenade, - Preparation, - Method of Firing, Night
Device for Mortar Leveling, Night Sighting Stake, Night Firing]
- Get Wise to Their Wiles; 1 pages Price .50 {Item
No.6546} [Includes: Firecrackers, Hiding Out, Playing Dead]
Combat Lessons Number 7; 58 pages, 29 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.
6547}
- Leadership; 7 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6548} [Includes:
The Junior Leader's Responsibility, Responsible Leadership in Action, Responsible
Leadership as the Soldier Sees It, Discipline - First Function of Leadership,
Discipline Applies to All, Discipline Is Based upon Confidence, A Definition
of Discipline]
- Replacement Orientation; 5 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6549} [Includes: Replacement Instruction - The Wrong Kind, - The Right
Kind, Common Failings]
- River Crossing Suggestions
- - Crossing by Assault Boat; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6550} [Includes: Assault Boat Handling, Life Saving Precautions]
- - Footbridge-Construction Shortcuts; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6551} [Includes: The Cable Problem, Projecting Cable by Mortar,
Boating the Cable Across, Footbridge Expedient]
- - Communications at the Crossing; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6552} [Includes: By Spiral Four Cable, By Radio, By Wire]
- - Speeding the Crossing; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6553} [Includes: Battalion CO Supervises, Rehearsals Speed the Crossing,
Engineer Infantry Cooperation, DUKW's Expediate Supply, Fast Crossing Method,
Mum's the Word, Drying the "Dunked"]
- A Song About a Soldier - "Roger Young"; 2 pages,
illus. Price .50 {Item No.6554}
- The Story of Roger Young; 2 pages, illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6555}
- Patrol Pointers; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6556}
[Includes: Allow Times for Preparation, Contact With the Main Force, Patrol
Leadership, Organizating "Professional" Patrols, Communications
for Combat Patrols]
- How Not to Patrol; 11 pages, 5 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6557}
[Includes: Terrain, The Patrol, The Mission, The Trip Out, Contact, The
Trip Back, The Rescue]
- Photo-Orientation Methods; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50
{Item No.6558} [Includes: Preattack Orientation by Ground Photo, Panoramic
Photos for Orientation, Gridded Panoramas for OP's]
- Engineering Ingenuities; 9 pages, 7 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6559} [Includes: Supply - in Spite of High Water!, Bridge Construction
Expedient, To the Engineer in the Woods, Cording Roads, Preventing Bent
Truck Frames, Getting Cable Across Streams, "Bulldozing" Beach
Wire Entanglements, Raising Bridge Caps, Preventing Brake-Hose Tears, Road
Repair Expedient, Using Mine Detectors Under Water]
- OP and CP Security; 4 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6560}
[Includes: Carelessness Cost Lives, Learning Security the Hard Way, One
Mistake Is Too Many]
Combat Lessons Number 8; 42 pages, 30+ illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.
6561}
- Leadership; 11 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6562} [Includes:
There's No Mystery About Leadership, The Leader Maintains Unity, Some Methods
of Reintergrating Unit, The Leader Builds Confidence, The "Easing Up"
Tendency Sets In, - And a Jap Gets a Chance, Fear Stalks with the Platoon,
Sergeant Deini Starts "Talking", The Leader Demands Thoroughness,
Don't Act Worried, Just Act!, The Lieutenant Gets Bad News, - Does Some
Fast Thinking, - And Goes into Action, The Situation Is Cleared Up, Resourceful
Leaders- Our Troops' First Need]
- On Killing Japs; 5 pages, 5 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6563}
[Includes: Burning Him Out, Smoking Him Out, Blasting Him Out, Burning Off
Camouflage, Incident in a Cemetery, Fighting Spirit Gives the Right Answer,
Finishing the Job, ]
- Citation of 7th Reconnaissance Troop; 2 pages, illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6564} [Story]
- Mortar Suggestions;
- - On Adjustments; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6565}
[Includes: SCR-536 Aids Adjustment, Mortar-Range Code, Train Infantrymen
to Adjust]
- - On Control; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6566}
[Includes: Mortar Coordination, Organizing 81-mm Mortars]
- - On Employment; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6567}
[Includes: Mortar Finesse, Foiling Artillery-Evasion Scheme, Mortar Sight
Light]
- - Aiming Stake Shortcuts; 1 page, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6568} [Includes: Stake Lighting, Stake Setting]
- Patrolling; 5 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6569}
[Includes: Patrol Critique, To Have-Hold, Reconnaissance Patrol on Biak,
Perforated Maps for Night Patrols]
- Field Expedients; 8 pages, 9 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6570}
[Includes: Mess Kit Methods, M1 Flash Hider, Camouflage Netting Supports,
Replacing M1 Firing Pin, Azimuth Indicator, C-Ration Dessert, Removing Bolt
of BAR, Ammunition Clip Carrier]
- Jap Tricks; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6571}
[Includes: Don't You Believe It!, When in Doubt- Shoot!, Watch the Japs
on This One]
Combat Lessons Number 9; 43 pages, 29 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.
6572}
- Leadership
- - Responsible Noncoms - the Officer's Mainstay; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6573} [Includes: Responsible Noncoms - The Officer's Mainstay,
Place Responsibility Where it Belongs, Responsibility Develops Leadership
Initiative]
- - Platoon Leadership vs. NCO Efficiency; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6574} [Includes: Orders Must Be Clear, Leaders Are Not Scouts]
- Tank-Infantry Teamwork
- - Building Team Unity; 2 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6575}
[Includes: Acquaintance Aides Teamwork, A Tank Ride Helps Doughboy Morale]
- - Tank-Infantry Team Plays; 5 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6576} [Includes: In General, At Night, In Woods, In Heavy Undergrowth,
Against Tank Stalkers, When a Tank Is Disabled, Common Errors That Impair
Teamwork]
- - Technique of Transporting Infantry on Tanks; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6577} [Includes: Load Allocation, What Tanks May Expect From
the Infantry, Discipline on March]
- - Organization of the Captured Ground; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price
.50 {Item No.6578}
- - Infantry-Tank Communications; 2 pages Price .50 {Item
No.6579} [Includes: Between the Leaders, By Modified Radio, Prearranged
Signal]
- Salute the the Medics; 2 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6580}
[Includes: Account concerning Medical Badge]
- Notes from Okinawa; 8 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6581}
[Includes: Jap Defenses on Okinawa, Small Unit Tactics, Alertness - More
Important Than Ever, Spotting the Pillboxes, Weapon Employment, Night Perimeters
Always Necessary, Jap-Proofing Perimeters, Forestall Jap Infilitration,
Welcome "Banzai" Attacks, Digging In- First Rule of Security,
Use Scouts and Flank Guards, Security Provisions Always Pay, Native Shacks
Are Sniper Hangouts, Bunching - a Costly Error]
- Suggestions from the Medics; 3 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item
No.6582} [Includes: Notes on Medicine and Sanitation, Lesson for Ambo-Jeep
Drivers, Smoke Screen for Evacuation, Ammunition Boxes for Medical Supplies,
Packboard Litter]
- Commo Comments
- - Keeping the Phones in; 7 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6583}
[Includes: Protecting the Wireman, Protecting the Wire, Packboard Wire-Laying,
Picking Up Wire by Vehicle]
- - Staying on the Air; 2 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6584}
[Includes: Antenna Technique, Save Those Batteries, Lend an Ear, Keep It
Dry]
- Odds and Ends; 5 pages, 5 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6585} [Includes:
Off the Chest, Quick Cover for Fox Holes (stockpiling lumber at the line
of departure), They Can Be Too Deep (foxholes in san), Luminous Markings
for Blown-out Bridges, Outsmarting the "Smarties", TNT for Every
Man (for digging foxholes), The Navy Yells "Bravo"(Infantry following
Germans through a minefield laying marking tape), They Can See You (The
Myth of Japanese Nearsightedness), GI's Best Friend is his Dogs (Boots,
not the animal)]
Lessons Learned and Expedients Used in Combat (July 1945) ; 110 pages, 21 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.
6585} [War Department Pamphlet No.20-17] [632 Lessons Learned]
- Chapter 1. Basic;
- - Section I. Leadership; 3 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6586} [Includes:
Battlefield inertia, Discipline, Casualties, Personal Example, Training,
Leadership]
- - Section II. Morale; 2 pages Price .50 {Item No.6587} [Includes:
Like Leadership Morale is Based on Knowledge, Close Order Drill, Confidence,
Discipline, Evacuation, Gas Masks, Rest, Shellreps, Showers and Laundries,
Wounded]
- - Section III. Training; 14 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6588} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning Air Targets to Weapons, 80 lessons in all,
8 on Marching Fire tactics]
- Chapter 2. Antiaircraft Artillery; 6 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6589} [Includes:
Lessons learned concerning Attack, Defense, River Crossings, Amphibious
Operations, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 3. Airborne; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6590} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning Attack, Defense, River Crossing, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 4. Cavalry; 6 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6591} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning: Scouting and Patrolling, Attack, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 5. Coast Artillery; 3 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6592} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning: Defense, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 6. Infantry; 29 pages, 2 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6593} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning: Scouting and Patrolling, Attack, Defense, River
Crossing, Amphibious Operations, Combat in Towns, Attack of Fortified Positions,
Miscellaneous; 177 lessons in all]
- Chapter 7. Field Artillery; 4 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6593} [Including
Lessons Learned concerning: Attack, Amphibious Operations, Attack of Fortified
Positions, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 8. Tanks and Tank Destroyers; 17 pages, 4 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6594} [Includes:
Lessons Learned concerning Attack, Defense, River Crossing, Amphibious Operations,
Combat in Towns, Attack of Fortified Positions, Miscellaneous]
- Chapter 9. Medical Service; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6595} [Lessons
Learned]
- Chapter 10. Communication; 10 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6596} [Lessons
Learned]
- Chapter 11. Supply; 7 pages, 1 illus. Price .50 {Item No.6597} [Lessons
Learned]
- Chapter 12. Maintenance; 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.6598} [Lessons
Learned]
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