FM 101-10 Staff Officers Field Manual. Organizational, Technical and Logisitical Data (1943)

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FM 101-10  Staff Officers' Field Manual. Organization, Technical and Logistical Data (10 October 1943); 421 pages, hundreds of charts and illustrations Price 50.00 {Item No.2095}

• Chapter 1. Organization; 148 pages, 24+ illus.and tables  Price 15.00 {Item No.22070}
• Section I. General; 10 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22071} [Including: Organization of the War Department,Organization of the Army Ground Forces, Organization of the Army Service Forces, Defense Command Areas, Service Command Boundaries]
• Section II. Air Force; 5 pages, 1 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22072} [Including: Echelons of command, Organization of Bombardment Squadrons, Organization of Fighter Squadrons, Organization of Observations Squadrons, Organization of Photographic (Reconnaissance) (Mapping) Squadrons, Organization of Service and Depot Squadrons and Service and Depot Group Headquarters and Headquarters Squadrons, Organization of Air Support Communications Squadron, Organization of Troop Carrier Squadron, Organization of Army Air Forces]
• Section III. Army, Task Force, Corps, Armored Corps; 4 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22073} [Including: Army, Task Force, Corps, Armored Corps]
• Section IV. Infantry Division; 8 pages, 1 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22074} [Including: Diagram, Table of Organization No.7 (15 July 1943) Infantry Division, Normal use of Organic Transportation]
• Section V. Light Division; 7 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22075} [Including: Diagram, Table of Organization No.72 (1 July 1943), Pack Transportation]
• Section VI. Armored Division and Tank Groups; 9 pages, 3 pages of illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22076} [Including: Diagram, Table of Organization (15 September 1943), Allocation of Weapons within Armored Division, Normal use organic transportation Armored Divisions]
• Section VII. Tank Destroyer Units; 10 pages, 3 pages of illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22077} [Including: Diagram Tank Destroyer Group, Diagram Tank Destroyer Battalion Self Propelled, Table of Organization No.18-25 (27 Jan 1943) Tank Destroyer Battalion, Diagram Tank Destroyer Battalion Towed, Table of Organization No.18-35 (7 May 1943) Tank Destroyer Battalion Towed]
• Section VIII. Airborne Division; 6 pages, 2 pages of illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22078} [Including: Diagram, Table of Organization No.71 (15 October 1942) Airborne Division, Normal use of transportion: Airplanes and Gliders Supplied by the troop carrier command, Organic transportation]
• Section IX. Antiaircraft Units; 11 pages, 4 pages of illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22079} [Including: Diagram AAA Brigade, AW Battalion Mobile: Diagram, Table of Organization No.44-25 Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion Mobile. AAA Automatic Weapon Battalion Self Propelled: Diagram, Table of Organization No.44-75 (15 June 1943). AAA Gun Battalion Mobile: Diagram, Table of Organization (18 March 1943) No.44-15. AAA Seachlight Battalion Semimobile: Diagram, Table of Organization 44-135 (27 February 1943) ]
• Section X. Engineer Amphibian Units; 8 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22080} [Including: Engineer Special Brigade: Diagram, Table of Organization No.5-510S (21 April 1943). Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment Engineer Special Brigade: Table of Organization No.5-511S (21 April 1943)]
• Section XI. Cavalry Regiment Mechanized; 3 pages, 1 page of illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22081} [Including: Cavalry Group Mechanized: Diagram, Table of Organization (Tentative) No.2-22 and 2-25 (15 Sept 1943)]
• Section XII. Theater Reserve Units; 57 pages, 3 pages of illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.22082} [Including: Engineer Group: Diagram, Field Artillery Group: Diagram. Antiaircraft Group: Diagram, Table of Organization Notes: Field Artillery, Adjutant General and Special Service Units, Chemical Warfare Units, Engineer Units, Medical Units, Military Police Units, Ordnance Units, Quartermaster Units, Signal Units, With Army Air Force Units, With Army Service Forces, Transportation Units]
• Chapter 2.  Troop Movements; 40 pages, many tables  Price 5.00 {Item No.22083}
• Section I.  Motor Movements; 25 pages, Many tables  Price 3.00 {Item No.22084} [Including: Introduction, Basic Road Spaces, Average Time Lengths of Cavalry, Men on Foot, and Animal Drawn Field Artillery Columns, Rates and Length of Marches: Foot, Animal and Motor Elements. Forced Marches: Foot and Animal Elements. Mortor movements: Truck capacities for troop movement, Truck capacities for animals. Form for tabulating numbers of trucks required for movement by motor transport (tactical movements) Infantry Division. Time length traffic flow, and density of motor columns: Close columns, Open columns. Average road space of motor columns at various speeds, Motor movements by echelon, March graphs and march tables, Examples. Forms for abridged table, Road spaces and time lengths: Infantry Division, Light Division. Motor movement by echelon: Infantry Division. Assignment of motor transport for movement of foot troops. Example of work sheet showing availability of cargo trucks]
• Section II. Adminstrative Troop Movements by Rail; 10 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22085} [Including: Capacity railway equipment, Railway car space requirements, Dimensions and capacities of selected Standard U.S.Freight Cars, Maximum bulk loading for standard U.S.freight cars. Movement Table (tentative) adminstrative, Railway car loading scales, Train consist table administrative, Individual training loading plan administrative: Infantry division, Entraining table administrative]
• Section III. Troop Movements by Rail in a Theater of Operations; 3 pages, tables  Price .50 {Item No.22086} [Including: Troop movement by rail: Basic data, Types of composition of railway trains]
• Chapter 3.  Supply; 69 pages, illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.22087}
• Section I. General; 37 pages, tables  Price 5.00 {Item No.22088} [Including: Classification of supply, Methods of supply, Procurement of supplies, Automatic Class I supply, Daily telegram, Requisition, Credits, Procurement by local exploitation, Trains of the Division, Labor, Truck loading capacities, Day of supply, Basic data of Class I and III supplies, Diagram of Class I supplies obtained by daily telegram, Diagram of distribution of Class I supplies, Time elements in Class I supply, Diagram of requistion and distribution of Class III supplies, Gasoline supply, Prescribed loads of Class III supply, Diagram of requistion and shipment of Class II and Class IV supplies, Class V supply, Basic data ammunition (except aircraft and chemical ammunition, Basic data chemical warfare ammunition, Basic loads artillery ammunition, Maximum resupply loads Field artillery ammuntion, Estimate daily requirements of Class V supplies for various types of combat expressed in units of fire per day of combat, Field artillery ammunition expenditures expressed in rounds per weapon per hour, Diagram of distribution of Class V supplies, Class V supplies diagram of allocation and requests, Class V supplies diagram of flow of ammunition reports]
• Section II. Infantry Division; 8 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22089} [Including: Vehicle fuel and lubricant requirements, Basic load, Units of fire and load of ammunition]
• Section III. Armored Division; 8 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22090} [Including: Methods of supply, Vehicle fuel and lubricant requirements]
• Section IV. Airborne Division; 7 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22091} [Including: Methods of supply of an Airborne Division, Vehicle fuel and lubricant requirements, Loads of ammunition for combat echelon Airborne Division: Glider uints, Parachute units]
• Section V. Miscellaneous; 7 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22092} [Including: Units of fire and loads of ammunition for Tank Destroyer Battalion, Cavalry Squadrons Mechanized, Vehicle fuel and lubricant requirements Cavalry Squadrons Mechanized, Units of fire and loads of ammunition for Cavarly Squadrons Mechanized, Basic loads Squadron Train, Cavalry Squadron Mechanized, Vehicle fuel and lubricant requirements Tank Destroyer units]
• Chapter 4.  Evacuation, Replacements and Prisoners of War; 22 pages, tables  Price 3.00 {Item No.22093}
• Section I. Evacuation; 12 pages, tables  Price 2.00 {Item No.22094} [Including: Casualty estimates, Method of computing number of beds required, Maximum capacity of means of transportation for casualties, Time element of evacation: Personnel, Animals, Diagram of evacuation and hospitalization of personnel, Diagram of evacuation and hospitalization of animals, Estimated daily losses in Campaign of personnel and animals, dead and evacuated per 1000 of actual strength]
• Section II. Replacements; 8 pages, tables  Price 1.00 {Item No.22095} [Including: General, Daily rates of losses, Factors for use in calculating accumulated losses (less Air Corps), Computation of losses, Distribution of battle losses, Diagram of personnel replacement system]  [Pages 13-20]
• Section III. Prisoners of War; 2 pages, tables  Price .50 {Item No.22096} [Including: Estimate of prisoneres of war, Diagram of evacuation of Prisoners of War]
• Chapter 5.  Military Maps; 13 pages, illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22097} [Including: Responsiblity for maps and mapping, Classification of maps, Types of maps and photomaps for Theater of operations, Engineer Mapping Troops, Army Air Force photographic troops, Map Distribution in the Field, Coordinate systems, References]
• Chapter 6.  Characteristics of Materiel; 31 pages, illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.22098} [Including: Dimensions and weight of items of equipment: Combat vehicles, Trucks, Trailers, Special vehicles, Weapons. Characteristics of Coast artillery (Seacoast mobile), Characteristics of Chemical Weapons, Data on Chemical munitions, Chemical ammunition requirments, Capabilities of chemical battalions, Field Artillery barrage and concentration. Names, designations of landing craft, ships and vehicles for amphibious warfare]
• Chapter 7.  Field Engineering Data; 12 pages, illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22099} [Including: Purpose, Roads and Bridges, Bridge and ferrying equipment: Distribution of floating equipment, Characteristics of ferrying equipment, Characteristics of floating bridge equipment, Fixed bridges, Water supply: Troop requirements, Capacity of water supply equipment, Equipment issued to troop units, Explosives, Field Fortifications: Priority of work, Camouflaging, Works, Obstacles, Road blocks and antimechanized measures: Road blocks, Continuous artificial obstacles, Antitank mine fields]
• Chapter 8.  Signal Communications Data; 41 pages, illus.  Price 5.00 {Item No.22100}
• Section I. Responsibility; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.22101} [Including: General, Classified information]
• Section II. Signal Intelligence and Communications Security; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22102} [Including: Signal intelligence, Communications security, Cryptographic security, Transmission security]
• Section III. Use of Signal Communications; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22103} [Including: Coordination, Choice of means, Relation of security to other signal communication requirements, Preparation of messages, Writting messages, Use of Cryptograms]
• Section IV. Signal Center; 2 pages, tables  Price .50 {Item No.22104} [Including: Location, Operation, Time involved in message transmission]
• Section V. Radio Communications; 15 pages, illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22105} [Including: General, Capabilities, Precautions, Type radio nets: Infantry Division, Type radio nets: Armored Division, Type radio nets: Corps. Radio sets characteristics: Infantry Division, Armored Division, Army Air Forces. Radio transmission ranges: High frequency line of sight table, Expected transmission distances for various frequencies]
• Section VI. Visual Communications; 2 pages  Price .50 {Item No.22106} [Including: Employment, Lamps, Flags, Pyrotechnics, Smoke, Panels, Aircraft]
• Section VII. Wire Communications; 8 pages, illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22107} [Including: Telephone, Teletypewriter, Manual telegraph, Facsimile equipment, Wire data, Replacement requirement of field wire per day of combat: Infantry Division. Talking range on wire circuits, Type wire nets: Infantry Division. Type wire nets: Corps, Type Air communication nets: Aircraft warning service, Principle communication channels tactical air division, Other communication channels (TAD)]
• Section VIII. Tables of Signal Equipment; 5 pages, illus.  Price .50 {Item No.22108} [Including: General, Principle items of Signal Corps Equipment: Infantry Division, Light Division, Radio equipment of an Armored Division]
• Chapter 9.  Camps and Bivouac Areas; 4 pages, illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.22109} [Including: Cantonments, Billeting, Diagrammatic layout of a tent camp, Shelter tent camp, Bivouac areas]
• Chapter 10. Movement by Air Transport; 16 pages, illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.22110} [Including: Introduction, Definitions, Outline of procedure, Tactical movement by air transport diagram, Administrative movement by air transport outline of procedure diagram, Orders to unit to be moved, Orders to the air task force, Initial studies, Conference between the commander of the unit to be moved and commander of the air task force, Plans and orders of unit to be moved, Plans and orders of the air task force commander, Form for showing strength and composition of unit, Form of equipment table, Airplanes required, Airplane loads, Air transport movement table, Weight of personnel and equipment tables]
• Chapter 11.  Miscellaneous Data; 25 pages, illus.  Price 3.00 {Item No.22111} [Including: Factors for conversion of units, Common caliber (diameter of bore), Fordable depth of water, Carrying capacity of ice, Characterisitics of methods of expressing directions of angular measurements, Speed of sound, Joint army and navy operations, Methods of designating time and date, Conversion table for converting locat time to Greenwich civil time, Latitude and longitude, Tables of daylight, darkness, sunshine and sunset, Moon phases: 1943, 1944]