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Military Manual Photocopies available from Military/Info

• NAVWEPS OP 3000 Vol.1 Weapons Systems Fundamentals. Basic Weapons Systems Components (15 July 1960); 252 pages, 200+illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3727}
• NAVWEPS OP3000 Vol.2 Weapon Systems Fundamentals. Analysis of Weapons (16 July 1960); The Chief of the Bureau of Naval Weapons; 426 pages, 200+illus. Price 43.00 {Item No.2919}
• NAVWEPS OP 3000 Vol.3 Weapons Systems Fundamentals. Synthesis of Systems (1963); 312 pages, 100+illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.3728}
• ROTCM 145-9-1 Ordnance Military Science II (April 1955); 306 pages, 254 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.4627}
• TB ORD 366  Rebuild Standards for Small Arms Materiel (15 September 1953); 178 pages, 135 illus.  Price 25.00 {Item No.224}
• TM 9-500 Data Sheets for Ordnance Type Material (September 1962)(+Changes 1-4); 1061 pages, 200+illus. Price 105.00 {Item No.2611}
• TM 9-1985-1 British Explosive Ordnance (July 1952); 454 pages, 289 illus. Price 45.00 {Item No. 4236} [Includes: Aircraft bombs, pistols, fuzes, detonators, rockets, grenades, landmines, firing devices and demolition stores]
• TM 9-1985-2 German Explosive Ordnance (Bombs, Fuzes, Rockets, Land Mines, Grenades and Igniters)(March 1953); 346 pages, 315 illus. Price 38.00 {Item No.4152} [Vol.1 of 2, TM 9-1985-3 is Vol.2] [Difficult to photocopy, but is readable]
• TM 9-1985-3 German Explosive Ordnance (Projectiles and Projectile Fuses) (March 1953); 277 pages, 298 illus. Price 32.00 {Item No.4153} [Vol.2 of 2, TM 9- 1985-2 is Vol.1] [Difficult to photocopy, but is readable]
• TM 9-1985-4 Japanese Explosive Ordnance (Bombs, Bomb Fuzes, Land Mine, Grenades, Firing Devices and Sabotage Devices)(March 1953); 263 pages, 200 illus. Price 32.00 {Item No.3772} [Vol.1 of 2, TM 9-1985-5 is Vol.2]
• TM 9-1985-5 Japanese Explosive Ordnance (Army Ammunition, Navy Ammunition)(March 1953); 287 pages, 251 illus. Price 34.00 {Item No.3773} [Vol.2 of 2, TM 9-1985-4 is Vol.1]
• TM 9-1985-6 Italian and French Explosive Ordnance (March 1953); 213 pages, 282 illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.2959}
• TM 9-2305 Fundamentals of Artillery Weapons (September 1947); 274 pages, 232 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1208}
• TM 9-3305 Principles of Artillery Weapons (May 1981); 138 pages, 100+illus. Price 14.00 {Item No.4313}
• TME 30-451 Handbook on German Military Forces (March 1945); 615 pages, 200+illus. Price 65.00 {Item No.4250} [To be fair, this manual has been often available as a reprint for over twenty years. I sugguest that you look for a reprint before buying one of our copies. Our copy is from a original manual, not from a reprint]
• TME 30-480 Handbook on Japanese Military Forces (1 October 1944); 401 pages, 412 illus. Price 45.00 {Item No.4251} [To be fair, this manual has been often available as a reprint for over twenty years. I sugguest that you look for a reprint before buying one of our copies. Our copy is from a original manual, not from a reprint]
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.1861 Handbook of Ordnance Data (1919); 523 pages, 226 illus. Price 55.00 {Item No.2179} [This is the most extensive book on WWI ordnance data which we have ever found. Containing 43 detailed tables, hundreds of photographs, and line drawings on weapons used by most WWI armies, it covers everything from railway guns down to body armor. It even details the types of metal used in many weapons]
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.2033 Handbook of Artillery including Mobile, Anti-Aircraft and Trench Material (May 1920); 383 pages, 100+ illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1151}
• Ordnance Dept.Doc.No.2033 Handbook of Artillery. including Mobile, Antiaircraft, Trench and Automotive Materiel. (July 1921, Revised May 1924); 398 pages, 300+illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.4086}
• The Ordnance Manual for Use of the Officers of the United States Army (3rd edition) Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co. (1862); 559 pages, 33 plates of illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.4265} [Difficult to Photocopy]
• Ordnance Supply Manual. Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Ordnance, U.S.A. by George L.Lohrer Washington: Government Printing Office 1904; 745 pages, 8 illus. Price 80.00 {Item No.4186}
• MAT-2 History of the Development of Field Artillery Materiel. Field Artillery School (June 1941); 83 pages, 17 illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.4332} [Instruction Memorandum]
• MAT-3 Construction of Field Artillery Materiel. Field Artillery School (October 1942); 81 pages, 65 illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.4333} [Instruction Memorandum]
• Alger, Philip R.. The Elastic Strength of Guns. (3rd Edition) Baltimore, Maryland: The Lord Baltimore Press (1916); 103 pages, 14 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.4734}
• Benton, Brevet-Col.J.G. Ordnance and Gunnery. New York: D.Van Nostrand (1867)(3rd Edition); 585 pages, 172 illus. Price 59.00 {Item No.4574} [Details]
• Bruff, Capt. Lawrence L. A Textbook of Ordnance and Gunnery (1896); 677 pages, 401 illus. Price 70.00 {Item No.2184} [An extensive textbook covering all aspects of weapons from gunpowder to ballistics to the detailed design workings of many weapons. Especially useful for working details of weapons from 1860 to 1890] [Details]
• Lissak, Ormond M. Ordnance and Gunnery (1915); 604 pages, 311+ illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.2185} [An extensive textbook covering the design and working of many weapons from just before WWI, including everything from the manufacture of gunpowder to the design of gun tubes to ballistics to small arms] [Details]
• Ruggles, Lt.Colonel Colden L'H., Ordnance U.S.Army. Stresses in Wire-Wrapped Guns and in Gun Carriages. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1916); 259 pages, 98 illus. Price 26.00 {Item No.4744}
• Scoffern, J. Projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Compounds (1859)(4th Edition); 376 pages, 50+illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1133}
• Tschappat, Lt.Col.William H. A Textbook of Ordnance and Gunnery (1917); 705 pages, 315+ illus. Price 70.00 [An extensive textbook covering everything from gunpowder to interior and exterior ballistics to the manufacture of gun tubes and the details of small arms. Especially useful for understanding WWI weapons technology] {Item No.2187}[Details]

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