TRENCH WARFARE

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• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.1:  Trench Profiles," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.2 (18 April 1918); 6 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-16}  [Includes: Necessity for Standard Profile, Types Adopted, Fundamental Dimensions, Nomemclature]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.2:  Standard "A" Frames," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.3; 1 pages, 2 illus. Price .50  {Item No.1566-17}
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.3:  Trench Drainage," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.12 (1 May 1918); 6 pages, 8 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-18}  [Includes: General, In constructing trenches, Maintenance of drainage system, Flooring of trenches, Sumps, Pumps]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.4:  The Organization of the Ground for the Defense," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.13 (24 August 1918); 33 pages, 6 illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.1566-19}  [Includes: Part I: General Principles: General characteristics of combat, Characteristics of the attack, Characteristics of the defense; Part II. The elements of a defensive position: Positions, Distribution of troops in a battle position, Lines, Characteristics of the various lines, Defensive areas, Combat groups, Strong points, Centers of resistance, Subsectors, Sectors, Defensive zones, Trenches; Part III. Procedure in organizing a position for defense: General selection and allotment of positions to be defended, General choice of position, Location of details of preliminary work, Fig.5  Regimental sub-sector showing distribution of troops and preliminary work in 1st battle position; Shelters, communications and general development of the position, Summary of procedure, Fig.6 Regimental sub-sector showing completed organization of 1st battle position; Time and labor to complete]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.7:  Trench Traces," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.19 (6 June 1918); 5 pages, 8 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-22}  [Includes: Necessity for standard traces, General requirements, Types adopted, Intersections]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.7-A:  The Octagonal Trace of Trenches," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.42 (8 September 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-23}
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.10:  Trench Construction," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.24 (25 June 1918); 15 pages, 8 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-26}  [Includes: General, Planning: Preliminary reconnissance, Estimates, Requisitions for tools and working parties; Tracing: General, Dimensions, Tracing with tracing tape, Tracing by using stakes and stones, Tracing by extending men on the line; Execution: Issing tools, Guiding party to work, Organization, Method of conducting work, Distribution of men on the work, Form: Requistion for working party]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.11:  Defense of Approach Trenches," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.26 (25 June 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-27}
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.13:  Revetment," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.28 (3 July 1918); 8 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-29}  [Includes: Retaining wall types, Superficial types, Reveting material]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.16:  Trenches Accessories," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.32 (18 September 1918); 11 pages, 16 pages  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-33}  [Includes: Sentinels Posts, Sniper's Posts, Ammunition and Grenade Boxes, Signs: Names, Signboards, Location; Ladder and Steps: Sortie Ladders, Steps; Latrines: Location, Number, Types; Telephone Lines: In communication trenches, In special trenches]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.17:  Emplacements for Automatic Weapons," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.33 (18 September 1918); 12 pages, 11 illus.  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-34}  [Includes: Machine Gun Emplacements: Standard dimensions for all emplacement, Shell hole emplacement, Emplacement with splinter proof cover, Reinforced concrete emplacement, Automatic Rifle Emplacement, Dimensions of Automatic Weapons]
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.18:  Gas Protection for Dugouts," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.34 (22 August 1918); 5 pages, 6 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-35}
• American Expeditionary Force."Field Fortification No.19:  Wire Entanglement Drills," Engineer Field Notes. Engineer Field Note No.35 (4 October 1918); 6 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-36}
• Author Unknown. "Consolidation of Trenches, Localities and Craters After Assault and Capture," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.44 (March-April 1917); 22 pages, 21illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6238} [Includes: Consolidations of a captured system of trenches, Consolidation of localities, Occupation of craters, Notes on rapid wire entanglements, Notes with references to iron screw posts and pickets, Examples of wire drills (8 different drills)]
• Casajus, Captain D.Victoriano. "A Visit to the English Front in France," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.46 (July-August 1917) ; 27 pages, 9 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.6241} [ Includes: Introduction, Artillery, Strength and equipment of the artillery, Mechanical training, Tactical employment of artillery, Emplacement of the guns, Concealment from aerial observation, Methods of observation employed by modern artillery, Observation officer, Aerial observation, The seismograph as used for observation, Method of suppling ammunition, Conclusions, Infantry, Preparation for the assault, Trench mortaretes, Aerial Torpedoes, "Paco", "Paqueo", or "Sniping" stations, Advance over the neutral zone, Occupation of the conquered trenches, Counter-attack, Hand grenades, Night attacks, Machine guns, The technique of infantry and the struggle in the west] [Translated from "La Guerra y su Preparation" Estado Mayor Central, Ano 1 Numero S, Madrid. December 1916. Translated by Major Henry Swift, Chaplain, U.S.A., retired] [Continued in issue no.47]
• Casajus, Captain D.Victoriano. "A Visit to the English Front in France," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.47 (September-October 1917); 20 pages, 5 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6245} [Continued from No.46][Includes: The Snappers, Service of communication, Aviation, Reconnoitering aeroplanes, Aeroplanes of observation, Aeroplanes for bombardment, Fighting aeroplanes, Aviation parks, Antiaerial artillery, Resume, Distribution of a command, Service of administration, Repair shops, Commissary and supply points, Bakeries, Sanitary service, Regimental first-aid stations, Advance stations for treatment, Field Division ambulance corps, Hospital trains, Convalescent hospitals, Hospital ships, Hygiene of the trenches, Veterinary hospitals, Clothing and equipments, Police in the camps and cantonments]
• Lang, Bt.Maj.W.H.,16th Cavalry, British Army, India."Some Notes on the Turkish Trenches at Sannayait," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 6 pages, 1 map Price 1.00 {Item No.6269} [Reprinted from Journal of the United Service Institution of India, October 1917]
• Lecture by a British Officer skilled in landscape gardening. "Trenches and Camouflage," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.47 (September-October 1917) ; 65 pages, 44 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.6246} [Includes: General principles, Concealment, An extensive field of vision and fire, A maximum amount of protection from rifle fire and the various types of shell fire, Shrapnel, Efficient drainage, In the event of retirement the trench should be of such a kind that it is of little value to the enemy, Bombing traps, Fire trenches, Inspection, communication, support trenches, etc., Obstacles, Wire obstacles, Concealment of obstacles, Low barbed wire entanglements, Coast defences, To summarize, Breastworks, Organization of working parties, Questions asked after lectures] [This is a excellent article]
• Headquarters, 1st Army, 7th March 1916. "German Methods of Trench Warfare," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.47 (September-October 1917) ; 11 pages, 2 maps Price 1.50 {Item No.6244} [Includes: German system of defense, German trenches, Obstacles, Listening posts, Method of holding trenches, Examples of German methods, German methods of defense, German system of attack, Artillery, Machine guns, "Minenwerfer", Hand grenades, Rifle grenades, Snipers, Rifle batteries, Telephones, Light railways, Patrolling, Mining, Personnel, Supply system, Rations and Food, Asphyxiating gas, Espionage, Addendum: The German offensive at Verdun, 21st-29th February, 1916]
• Livermore, Col.W.R., U.S.Army. "The German Shelters on the Somme," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.46 (July-August 1917); 8 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.6240} [Translated from the L'Illustration, January 13, 1917]
• Peterson, Lt.Col.V.L., Corps of Engineers. As given the eighth engineers (mounted). "Sandbox instruction in Fortification, Reconnaissance and Minor Tactics," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 21 pages, 22 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6275} [Includes: Field Fortifications instruction, Barbed-wire entanglements, Saps, Mines shafts and galleries, Machine Gun emplacements, Deep shelters, Craters, Observation posts, battery emplacements and dressing stations, Final review of all the work, Lectures given on the work, Battalion supporting point, Sand box for sketching instruction, Use of the sand box for instruction in minor tactics, Patrols, Advance guards, Outposts, Results accomplished.]
• Radiguet, Rene, General de Division, Army of France."Trench Organization," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 20 pages, 10 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6273} [From "The Making of a Modern Army and Its Operation in the Field"] [Includes: General remarks, General plan of an entrenchment system, Communication lines, Artillery, Wire entanglements, Mines and counter-mines, Special railway troops, Transportation by road, General remarks on transportation, Camouflage, Aviation]
• Solbert, Captain O.N., Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army and Captain George Bertrand, French Army. "Organization and Duties for Trench Fighting," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.9, No.48 (November-December 1917); 50 pages, 20 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.6252} [Includes: Specialists, Use of specialists, Formations for maneuvering this resultant company of specialists, General use of fortifications, Successive phases of the organization, Active and passive elements of a position, Division of position, Different lines of a sector, Principles of the organization, Elements of the organization, Sector and trench duties: Plan of defense, Details of trench duty, Use of infantry and artillery weapons, and liaison, Artillery support in a sector, Use of artillery support] [The first three of twelve lectures given by Captains Solbert and Bertrand on "Tactics and Duties of Small Units in Trench Fighting"] [Continued in Volume No.10]
• Solbert, Captain O.N., Corps of Engineers, U.S.Army and Captain George Bertrand, French Army. "Organization and Duties for Trench Fighting," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918); 8 pages Price 1.00 {Item No.6259} [Includes: The Relief: Definitions and principles, Preliminary dispositions for the relief, Movement of the relief, Occupation of the position] [Continued from Issue No.48]
• Solbert, Captain O.N.and Captain Georges Bertrand."Organization and Duties for Trench Fighting. Chapter VI. Attack of a Position," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 25 pages, 6 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.6270} [Includes: Phases of the attack, Preparation of the attack: Artillery preparation, The Assault: Formations for the assault, Formation of an assaulting battalion, Fighting in the interior of the position and exploitation]
• Trounce, Capt.H.D., Engineer Reserve Corps, U.S.A., formerly Lieutenant Royal Engineers. "British Army Suggestions on Trench Construction, Etc.. ," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineers. Vol.10 (1918); 19 pages Price 2.00 {Item No.6272} [Includes: Trenches in Flanders, Trenches Father South, Communication trenches, Fire trenches, Support or supervision trenches, Drainage, Shelters, Revetment, Camouflage, Transport, Emplacements for strong points, Disposal of spoil, Mined dugout construction, Retreat of the enemy, Bombing, Gas alarms] [A very good article]
• Lecture to Cadets at Saint Maixant, France. by Capt A.Gay, French Army. "Sapping Operations, Especially for Infantry," Professional Memoirs. Corps of Engineer, Vol.10 (1918); 15 pages, 23 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.6262} [Includes: Introduction, Saps of rolling earth, Double sap, Saps of gabions of sandbags and of gabions and sandbags, Flying sap with gabions, Flying sap with sand bags, Flying sap of gabions and sand bags, Deep covered sap--blind sap--Russian sap, Deep covered sap, Blinded sap, Outline from the trench to the sap]

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