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• ASubjScd 21-19 Field Fortifications (20 July 1955); 12 pages Price 1.50 {Item No.4798} [Army subject schedule. Training course outline (Basic combat training (6 hours), Advanced individual training (16 hours) and Unit training (16 hours))]
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (1940)(+Change 2); 296 pages, 152 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1522}
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (14 February 1944); 267 pages, 117 illus. Price 27.00 {Item No.2751}[This manual and FM 5-30 Obstacle Technique (1943)are best reflections of U.S.Army thinking on the subject of Field Fortification technique during World War Two] [For how to camouflage U.S.Army World War Two Fortifications see: our Camouflage subject heading, we have an excellent collection of manuals on the subject as well as period course manuals]
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (August 1949); 378 pages, 212 illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1523} [In many ways a summary of the lessons learned during World War Two]
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (October 1959); 271 pages, 149 illus. Price 28.00 {Item No.2645}
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (February 1965); 312 pages, 140 illus. Price 35.00 {Item No.1524}
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (August 1968); 132 pages, 155 illus. Price 14.00 {Item No.2638}
• FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (June 1972); 169 pages, 198 illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.1525}[The classic summary of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War]
• FM 5-30 Obstacle Technique (30 June 1943); 250 pages, 133 illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1527}[This manual and FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (1944) are best reflections of U.S.Army thinking on the subject of Field Fortification technique during World War Two]
• FM 5-101 Mobility (January 1985); 231 pages, 154 illus. Price 23.00 {Item No.2721}
• FM 5-102 Countermobility (March 1985); 208 pages, 100+illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.2722}
• FM 5-103 Survivability (June 1985); 252 pages, 100+illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2706} [54 pages are reprinted full sized because of their detailed drawings]
• FM 5-165 Hasty Revetments for Parked Aircraft (August 1975); 111 pages, 60+illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.1528}
• FM 90-7 Obstacles (June 1979)(Interim Draft); 339 pages, 121+illus. Price 34.00 {Item No.1529}
• NAVDOCKS P-310 Planning Dual-Use Military Shelters (December 1963); Department of the Navy, Bureau of Yards and Docks, Washington,D.C.; 138 pages, 144 illus. Price 14.00 {Item No.4064}
• NAVFAC P-81 Personnel Shelters and Protective Construction (December 1972); 328 pages, 100+illus. Price 33.00 {Item No.4069}
• Subcourse IN0328 Edition 9  Camouflage, Cover, and Concealment and Battlefield Positions (1982); 48 pages, 50+illus.  Price 6.00 {Item No.868} [Organized by Text with examination]
• Special Series No.15 German Coastal Defense (15 June 1943). War Dept., Military Intelligence Division ; 89 pages, 49 illus. Price 12.00 {Item No.3341}[As compared to all the complaints after D-Day, it is surprising how much the War Department did know about German Coast Defenses]
• Special Series No.17 German Doctrine of the Stabilized Front (15 August 1943). War Dept., Military Intelligence Division ; 141 pages, 6 illus. Price 18.00 {Item No.3478}
• TB ENG 10 Report of Bomb Tests on Shelters (7 March 1944); 112 pages, 114 illus. Price 12.00 {Item No.3482}
• TB 5-15-1 Prefabricated Shelters, Bunkers, and Emplacement Covers (July 1969); 46 pages, 59 illus., plus 16 plans Price 10.00 {Item No.4095} [Supplements FM 5-15 Field Fortifications (1972)]
• TB ENG 21 Report of Bomb Test on Protective Walls (1 May 1944); 97 pages, 110 illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.3483}
• TB ENG 117 Field Fortifications (19 December 1955); 157 pages, 75 illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.2899}
• TB 5-330-1 Fortifications for Parked Army Aircraft (January 1966); 87 pages, 13+ illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.1531}
• Training Bulletin No.GT-4 Conference Course. Infantry Intrenchments and Weapon Emplacements (1 August 1943); 32 pages, 25 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.2580}
• TC 7-50 Fighting Positions for Infantry Soldiers (30 April 1975); 72 pages, illus.(Cartoon format) Price 7.00 {Item No.1532}
• TC 5-102  Countermobility Drills (November 1983); 139 pages, 26 illus.  Price 18.00 {Item No.234} [US Army Engineer School. Ft.Belvoir] [Coordinating Draft]
• TM 5-310 Military Protective Construction (June 1946); 81 pages, 52 illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.1535}
• TM 5-310 Military Protective Construction (Passive Defense Measures Against Aerial Attack)(14 March 1942); 133 pages, 45 illus. Price 14.00 {Item No.2849}
• TM 5-311 Military Protective Construction (May 1965); 225 pages, 160 illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1536} [Note Military/Info has this manual in book form as Advance Protective Shelter Design]
• TM 5-311 Engineer Troop Protective Construction (Nuclear Warfare)(August 1961); 155 pages, 144 illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.2900}
• TM 5-855-1 Fundamentals of Protective Design for Conventional Weapons (November 1986) (Including Change 1); 271 pages, 92+illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2596}
• TM 5-855-1 Fundamentals of Protective Design (Non-Nuclear)(July 1965); 192 pages, 91 illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.2901} [Reprint of EM 1110-345-405 (1946)]
• TM 5-1300 Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions (November 1990); 1784 pages, hundreds of graphs Price 180.00 {Item No.4856} [Classic data manual used in the design of hardened installations in the Iraq war]
• TM 5-1300 Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions (June 1969)(including Change 1 (17 March 1971); 277 double sized pages, 224 illus. Price 56.00 {Item No.4294} [This manual is also: Airforce: AFM 88-22; Navy: NAVFAC P-397]
• TM 9-1907 Ballistic Data Performance of Ammunition (July 1948); 286 pages, 150 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2384} [Contains highly detailed information concerning the effects of Bombs and Artillery Shells against Fortifications]
• TM 9-1907 Ballistic Data, Performance of Ammunition (23 September 1944); 309 pages, 275 illus. Price 31.00 {Item No.2850} [This book is filled with detailed tables showing the preformance of U.S.WWII bombs and shells against armor plate, tanks, troops and concrete] [Note Military/Info has this manual in book form as Weapons Effects 1944]
• TR 195-5 Fortification—Principles of Field Fortification (October 1926); 27 pages, 10 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.1537}
• TR 195-20 Fortification—Standard Types and Execution of Field Fortifications (December 1927)(+Change 1); 118 pages, 114+illus. Price 12.00 {Item No.1538}
• TR 195-25 Fortification—Protected Shelters (December 1927); 58 pages, 26 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.1539}
• TR 195-50 Fortification—Field Fortification for Artillery (20 February 1929); 42 pages, 33 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.1540}
• TR 1195-50 Equipment Intrenching Tools, Nomenclature and Care (15 April 1927); 22 pages, 29 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.1541}
• TR 1195-65 Fortification—Underground Water and Its Relation to Field Works (28 January 1926); 10 pages, 11 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1542}
• T-7  Field Fortifications for Field Artillery. Field Artillery School (February 1943); 21 pages, 18 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.4346}  [Instruction Memorandum]
• Tradoc Bulletin 9 Infantry Fighting Positions (September 1977); 34 pages, illus. Price 3.50 {Item No.1543}
• Tradoc Bulletin 13 Battle Report Terrain Reinforcement: Tank Ditches (28 March 1986); 11 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.1544}
• American Expeditionary Forces. Engineer Field Notes (1918); 383 pages, 245+ illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1566} [An exceptionally detailed collection of WWI military field engineering notes printed at the end of WWI by A.E.F. including a large section on Field fortifications] [Details]
• Department of Defense. Underground Plants for Industry (January 1956); 109 pages, 25 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.3400}
• Engineer Field Manual Vol.II Military Engineering Part Two Defensive Measures (June 1932); 251 pages, 160 illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1545}
• Engineer School, United States Army. Occasional Papers Number 53. Lessons in Fortification. Part I. Effects of Artillery Fire, Part II. Field Fortification and the Protection of Batteries; Washington Barracks, D.C. (1917); 120 pages, 120+ illus., 10 plates Price 14.00 {Item No.2727} [Copy not in prefect condition ]
• Engineer School, US Army. Occasional Papers Number 58. Pamphlet on the Evolution of the Art of Fortification (1919); 107 pages, 38 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.4457} [Prepared under the personal direction of Major General William H.Black, Chief of Engineers, U.S.Army]
• Engineer School Occasional Papers No.62 Military Mining. by Alfred H.Brooks (1920); 43 pages, 19 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.2903}
• GT-4 Hasty Field Fortifications (1942); 55 pages, 43 illus. Price 6.00 [Conference Course Training Bulletin]
• Infantry Fighting Positions. Infantry Officer Basic Course, U.S.Army Infantry School, Ft.Benning, GA (1984); 23 pages, 22 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.3460}
• Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Design Manual 2.08 Blast Resistant Structures (December 1986); 357 pages, 94 illus. Price 36.00 {Item No.4067}
• NAVMC-4175. Amphibious Operations. Beach and Underwater Obstacles (Tentative)(1946); 54 pages, 62 illus. Price 7.00 [Marine Corps Schools, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia]
• OCC-No-3.6-2A. Notes on Tank Defiles and Road Blocks (21 September 1942)(The Engineer School, Ft.Belvoir, Va); 18 pages, 14 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.1546}
  United States of Civil Defense. Protective Construction (1941, Rev. August 1942); 28 pages, 10 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.1547}
• OCD 3031 Passive Protection For Industrial Plants. U.S.Office of Civil Defense (October 1942); 46 pages, 24 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.3472}
• Office of Civil Defense. Report of Bomb Tests on Materials and Structures (January 1941); 55 pages, 20+illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.2712}
• United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Aircraft Division. Report No.XX. Underground Production of Japanese Aircraft (March 1947); 65 pages, 61 photographs, 18 maps Price 10.00 {Item No.3972}
• War Department Doc.273. Reports of Military Observers Attached to The Armies in Manchuria During the Russo-Japanese War (December 1, 1906) Part III. [Office of the Chief of Staff. Second (Military Information Division) General Staff No.8]; 241 pages, many illus.  Price 25.00 {Item No.827} [Report of Major Joseph E.Kuhn, Corps of Engineers] [Engineer Report, including fortifications]
• War Dept.Doc.314 Influence of the Experience of the Siege of Port Arthur upon the Construction of Modern Fortresses. by A.Von Schwartz (Translated from Russian in the second division (Military Information) Division General Staff (30 June 1908); 188 pages, 11 plates of illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.4217}
• Billiard, Captain.  Construction of Dugouts (March 1917); 75 pages, 15 illus.  Price 8.00 {Item No.4934}[Printed by Army Group of the Center, Engineer School] [Difficult to photocopy, original is not in prefect condition]
• Beach, Captain William D. Manual of Military Field Engineering. for the use of Officers and Troops of the Line. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S.Infantry and Cavalry School, Department of Engineering (1894)(1st Edition); 284 pages, 60 plates of illus. Price 29.00 {Item No.4649}
• Bond, P.S. and others. Field Engineering. A Practical Exposition of the Organization of the Ground for Defense As the U.S.Army in the World War. New York: The American Army and Navy Journal, Inc.(1922); 161 pages, 68 illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.3811}
• Brackenbury, Colonel C.B., R.A.. Field Works. Their technical construction and tactical application. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. (1888)(In two volumes); 359 pages, 17 pages of plate illus. Price 38.00 {Item No.4158} [Seventh volume of Military Handbooks for Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers. Editied by Col.C.B.Brackenbury, R.A.]
• Brialmont, Alexis Henri (1821-1903).(Translated by Charles A. Empson). Hasty Intrenchments. Henry S. King & Co., London (1872); 94 pages, 9 pages of plates Price 10.00 {Item No.2888}
• Delafield, Richard, Major (Corps of Engineers). Report of The Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856 from his observations made as a member of a Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe; 283 pages, 186+ illus.(arranged in numerous additional pages of plates)  {Item No.628} Price 80.00 [A gold mine of information on all sorts of field notes, even covers the management of slicing potatoes, with an detailed account of the Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimea War] [Done under the orders of the Hon.Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War] [Washington: George W.Bowman, Printer (1860)][This document is printed out in 400 sheets of paper] [Details]
• Douglas, General Sir Howard. Observations on Modern Systems of Fortifications. Including that proposed by M.Carnot, and companion of the polygonal with the bastion system; to which are added, some reflections on intrenched positions, and a tract on the naval, littoral, and internal defense of England. John Murray, Albemarle Street: London (1859); 283 pages, 31 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2973} [Mainly concerned with permanent fortifications]
• Duane, Captain J.C. Manual for Engineer Troops (1863); 275 pages, 100+ illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1548}
• Fiebeger, Lt.Col. G.J.  A Text-Book on Field Fortication (2nd Ed.Revised). New York: John Wiley & Sons (1909); 174 pages, plus 27 plates of illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.3982}[Has some color which we can only reproduced in black and white]
• Fiebeger, Lt.Col.  Permanent Fortification. West Point, New York: Henry Charnowitz (1900); 106 pages, plus 22 plates of illus.  Price 16.00 {Item No.4223}
• Hutchinson, Major-General H.D.. Field Fortification. Notes on the Text-Books. Specially Designed and Arranged for the use of Officers preparing for Promotion Examinations. (Fifth Edition) Gale & Polden, Ltd., London (1904); 245 pages, 35 plates (100+illus.) Price 25.00 {Item No.2660}
• Knollys, Major W.W. Handbook of Field Fortification (1873); 273 pages, 158 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1549}
• Mahan, D.H. Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865); 284 pages, 100+ illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1550} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. An Elementary Course of Military Engineering. Part II. Permanent Fortifications. John Wiley & Son: New York (1867); 176 pages, 18 plates of illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3072} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. A Treatise on Field Fortification. Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defense of permanent fortifications. New York: John Wiley (1848); 168 pages, +12 plates of illus. Price 18.00 {Item No.4575} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. Descriptive Geometry, as applied to The Drawings of Fortification and Stereotomy. New York: John Wiley & Sons (1883); 60 pages, +12 plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.4563} [New edition of 1864 book with additions including a large section on Stone cutting]
• Macaulay, I.S. A Treatise on Field Fortification, The attack of fortresses, military mining, and reconnoitring (5th Edition). London: Bosworth & Harrison (1860); 337 pages, 12 plates of illus. Price 35.00 {Item No.4527}
• Pasley, C.W. Capt.R.E. Course of Instruction Vol.I Containing Practical Geometry and the Principles of Plan Drawing. London: John Murray (1814); 269 pages, 100+illus. Price 27.00 {Item No.3984}
• Pasley, C.W. Capt.R.E. Course of Military Instruction Vol.II Containing Elementary Fortification. London: John Murray (1817); Pages 1-335, Price 34.00 {Item No.3985} [There is no Vol.I on Fortifications, but Vol.I-III by Pasley is one set]
• Pasley, C.W. Capt.R.E. Course of Military Instruction Vol.III Containing Elementary Fortification. London: John Murray (1817); Pages 336-702 (366 pages), Price 36.00 {Item No.3986} [There is no Vol.I on Fortifications, but Vol.I-III by Pasley is one set]
• Solano, E.John Field Entrenchments. Spadework for Riflemen. John Murray: London (1915); 228 pages, 87 illus. Price 23.00 {Item No.2398}
• Straith, Major Hector. Treatise of Fortification and Artillery (7th Edition). London: Wm.H.Allen & Co. (1858); 382 pages, 217+ illus. Price 39.00 {Item No.4599} [Fortification part of the book] [Details]
• Trouce, H.D.  Fighting the Boche Underground (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1918); 234 pages, 8 illus.  Price 25.00 {Item No.754} [World War One Tunnel Warfare]
• Turner, H. Field Fortification. With Examples and Answers. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London (1892); 210 pages, no illus. Price 21.00 {Item No.3074}
• Wheeler, J.B. The Elements of Field Fortifications. D.Van Nostrand Company: New York (1889); 95 pages,96 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2396}
• Wisser, John P., Major Artillery. The Tactics of Coast Defense. Kansas City, Mo.: Hudson-Kimberly Co. (1902); 232 pages, 14 illus. Price 24.00 {Item No. 4754}
  
   
  World War One Cut and Cover Bunker Design....War Department.

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