TM 30-480 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces (21 September 1942)

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TM 30-480 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces (21 September 1942); 364 pages, 104+illus.  Price 38.00 {Item No.981}

• Chapter 1. Recruitment and mobilization; 6 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-01}
• Chapter 2. Organization; 69 pages, 8 illus.  Price 7.00 {Item No.981-02}
• Section I. Japanese military system and territorial organization; 10 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-03} [Including: Japanese military system, Ranks, Territorial organization]
• Section II. Tactical Organization; 59 pages, 6 illus.  Price 6.00 {Item No.981-04} [Including: High command in field, Army, Army corps, Infantry division, Infantry, Artillery, Coast artillery (fortress) organization, Corps of Engineers, Cavarly, Tanks, Transport service, Intendance, Ordnance service (Gijutsutsu), Medical service, Signal corps, Chemical warfare service, Veterinary service, Air corps, Paratroops, Flying columns of raiding units (Teishintal)]
• Chapter 3. Uniforms, insignia, and personal equipment; 14 pages, 11 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.981-05} [Including: Uniforms, Insignia, Reserve clothing, Personal equipment]
• Chapter 4. Armament and equipment; 92 pages, 69 illus.  Price 9.00 {Item No.981-06}
• Section I. Infantry; 20 pages, 13 illus.  Price 2.00{Item No.981-07} [Including: Rifle, Revolver and automatic pistol, Automatic rifle and machine guns, Heavy grenade thrower model 89, Hand grenades and mines, Infantry guns]
• Section II. Field Artillery; 12 pages, 11 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-08} [Including: Light artillery, Pack artillery, Medium artillery, Heavy field artillery]
• Section III. Railroad artillery, antiaircraft artillery, and machine guns; 12 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-09} [Including: Railroad artillery, antiaircraft artillery]
• Section IV. Cavalry; 3 pages, 4 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-10} [Including: Saber, Lance, Carbine and bayonet, Light machine gun, Heavy machine gun model 92 (1932), Cavalry packsaddle]
• Section V. Air Corps; 11 pages, 1 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-11} [Including: Equipment (types of aircraft), Other equipment, Marking of aircraft, Overhaul and maintenance, Specifications of aircraft in use, Aircraft machine guns]
• Section VI. Chemical Warfare Service; 9 pages, 3 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-12} [Including: Research manufacture and training, Gas and smoke shells, Type of gas, Gas mask model 92, Other gas masks, 90mm chemical mortar, Chemical grenades and toxic smoke candles, Gas and toxic smoke generation, Chemical airplane bombs]
• Section VII. Engineer arms and equipment; 4 pages, 3 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-13} [Including: Arms, Equipment, Landing craft]
• Section VIII. Tanks, tactors, trucks, motorcars, and bicycles; 16 pages, 21 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.981-14} [Including: Tanks, Tractors, Trucks and motorcars, Motorcycles and bicycles]
• Section IX. Signal Communication; 5 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-15} [Including: Radio, Telephone, Reels, Signal lamp, Signal flags, Airplane panels, Military dogs, Pigeons]
• Chapter 5. Ammunition; 8 pages, 3 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-16}
• Section I. Infantry; 3 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-17} [Including: Rifles, Light machine gun, Heavy machine gun, 70mm battalion howitzer model 92 (1932), 75mm regimental mountain gun, model 41 (1908), 37mm infantry rapid fire gun model 94]
• Section II. Artillery; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-18} [Including: 75mm gun, 105mm gun, 155 howitzer, fuses]
• Section III. Antiaircraft; 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-19} [Including: 75mm shell]
• Chapter 6. Supply and evacuation; 11 pages, 2 illus.  Price 1.00{Item No.981-20}
• Section I. Supply; 7 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50{Item No.981-21} [Including: General, Division transport regiment, Ammunition supply, Organization and operation of line of communications (Heitansen)]
• Section II. Evacuation; 4 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.981-22} [Including: General, Detailed sections, Medical regiment with division]
• Chapter 7. Training, efficiency, discipline, and morale; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-23} [Including: Training, System of promotion, Efficiency, Discipline, Morale]
• Chapter 8. Tactics of Japanese Army; 76 pages, 7 illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.981-24}
• Section I. General; 1 page  Price .50 {Item No.981-25}
• Section II. Offensive; 35 pages, 6 illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.981-26} [Including: General, Forms of attack, Meeting engagement, Advance, Division commander in approaching a meeting engagement, Deployment of division, Division attack order, Frontages and distances, Comments, Attack of position, Driving in covering forces, Attack order - general, Technique of attack, Assault, Criticism, Pursuit, Attack of river line, Night attack, Landing operations]
• Section III. Defensive; 8 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-27} [Including: Defensive of position, Organization of ground, Conduct of defense, Comments, Withdrawal, Delaying action (jikyusen)]
• Section IV. Employment of tanks, mechanized units, and antitank defense; 4 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-28} [Including: Tank tactics, Tactical doctrine, Tanks with division, Mechanized units, Comments, Antitank defense]
• Section V. Aircraft; 11 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-29} [Including: Stragetic and tactical doctrine, Training, morale, and efficiency, Operations]
• Section VI. Notes on Japanese operations in Malaya and Southwest Pacific area; 11 pages, 1 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.981-30} [Including: Movements, Landings, Tactics, Miscellaneous, Personal equipment] [Pages 264-274]
• Section VII. Combined operations; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-31}
• Section VIII. Conclusions; 3 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-32} [Including: Characteristics of Japanese tactics, Weak points, Fighting efficiency]
• Chapter 9. Conventional signs and abbreviations; 55 pages, illus.  Price 6.00 {Item No.981-33} [Including: Conventional signs, List of common Japanese military abbreviations, Signs for field detachments, Navy symbols, List of common Japanese naval abbreviations, Typical operations map of meeting engagement]
• Chapter 10. Military terms and abbreviations; 8 pages, illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-35} [Including: Military terms, Important military characters, Characters on identification tags]
• Appendix I. Supplemental Data; 6 pages  Price .50 {Item No.981-36} [Including: Japanese year dates, Japanese weights, measures, and moneys, Method of numbering models, Japanese field signal code, Current strength]
• Appendix II. Wartime code names and numbers; 7 pages  Price 1.00{Item No.981-37}
• Index; 10 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.981-38}