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}
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