ENGINEERING

Bridging

Military Manual Photocopies available from Military/Info

• FM 5-212  Medium Girder Bridge (7 February 1989); 88 pages, 28 illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.5119}
• FM 5-277 Bailey Bridge M2 (May 1986); 365 pages, 100+illus. Price 72.00 {Item No.4033} [Double sized pages][1 page per sheet]
• GTA 5-7-4 Prefabricated Military Bridge Card (1 April 1965); 8 pages, illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.3451}
• GTA 5-7-5 Bridge Design and Classification Card (July 1965); 14 pages, illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.3452}
• GTA 5-7-6 Bridge Design Card (October 1968); 18 pages, illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.3453}
• GTA 5-7-7 Bridge Classification Card (May 1969); 14 pages, illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.3454}
• The Engineer School. Standard Engineer Stream-Crossing Equipment (July 1952); 103 pages, 29 illus. Price 10.00 {Item No. 3078}
• TB 5-271-1 Bridging for Inundated Areas and Tidal Estuaries (16 February 1944); 63 pages, 47 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.3882}
• TB 5-271-2 Pusher Knee for Standard Power Utility Boats (15 August 1944); 8 pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.4741}
• TB 5-271-3 Loading Plan for Footbridge M1938 (February 1945); 5 pages, 3 illus. Price .50 {Item No.3883}
• TB 5-271-5 Use of 1/4-Ton Amphibian Trailer as Stream-Crossing Expedient (June 1945); 11 pages, 13 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.3884}
• TB 5-271-6 25-Foot Gasoline-Powered Utility Boat (Twin Screw)(July 1945); 34 pages, 19 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4742}
• TB 5-272-3 Reducing Twist Due to Torque in Steel Treadways: V-Approach for Steel Treadways (17 June 1944); 9 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.4556}
• TB 5-272-5 Use of Steel Treadway Bridge in Ship-to-Shore Operations (January 1945); 28 pages, 27 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.3885}
• TB 5-273-3 Ponton Bow Adapters and Revised Capacity for 25-ton Ponton Bridges and Rafts (June 1945); 21 pages, 13 illus.+tables Price 2.00 {Item No.4555}
• TB 5-274-1 H-10 Steel-Box-Girder Fixed Bridge (Knock-down type)(18 February 1944); 15 pages, 10 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.4500}
• TB 5-277-2 Notes on Panel Bridge, Bailey Type (3 August 1944); 11 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.3886}
• TB 5-277-3 Demolition of Fixed Panel Bridge, Bailey Type, and Parts (January 1945)(+Change 1); 12+pages, 6 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.3887}
• TB 5-277-6 Capacity of Fixed Panel Bridge, Bailey Type, M1, and Strength of Bridge Parts (May 1945); 30 pages, tables and charts Price 3.00 {Item No.4502}
• TB 5-277-7 End Supports for Fixed Panel Bridge, Bailey Type, M1 (June 1945); 32 pages, 17 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4501}
• TB 5-277-9 Fixed Panel Bridge, Bailey Type, on Intermediate Piers (July 1945); 29 pages, 20 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4499}
• TB 5-277-11 Fixed Two-Land Through Type Panel Bridges, Bailey Type, M1 and M2 (July 1945); 32 pages, 11 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4503}
• TB ENG 25 Straightening Steel by Contraction (3 June 1944); 8 pages, 7 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.4506} [For fixing bent steel bridge parts]
• TB ENG 27 Repair of Pneumatic Floats (8 June 1944); 22 pages, 15 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4509}
• TB ENG 29 Repair of Strafing Damage to Floating Bridges (19 June 1944); 7 pages, 5 illus. Price 1.00 {Item No.4508}
• TB ENG 31 Stream Crossing in High-Velocity Currents (30 June 1944); 27 pages, 22 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4511}
• TB ENG 36 Issue of Plain Mineral Oil for Two-Cycle Gasoline Engines (24 August 1944); 3 pages Price .50 {Item No.4530}
• TB ENG 40 Fixed Alpine Path (13 September 1944); 30 pages, 32 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4507}
• TB ENG 45 Standard Steel Derricks for Erection of Railway Bridge (21 October 1944); 34 pages, 24 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4554}
• TB ENG 48 Medium Cableway (2 November 1944); 39 pages, 26 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4490}
• TB ENG 52 Bridging and Rafts to Support Heavy Tank T46E1 (17 November 1944); 21 pages, 21 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.4544}
• TB ENG 59 Expedient Trestle Bridge 2-Ton and 4-Ton (March 1945); 17 pages, 16 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.4570}
• TB ENG 67 Bridge Note No.1 Measures to Prevent Shifting of Bridge Superstructure Under Traffic: Examples of Timber Piers and Trestles (March 1945); 14 pages, 18 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.4545}
• TB ENG 77 Construction of Field-Expedient Decoy Floating Bridges (May 1945); 23 pages, 12 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.3890}
• TM 5-210 Military Floating Bridge Equipment (August 1970); 263 pages, 300 illus. Price 26.00 {Item No.1486}
• TM 5-216 Armored Vehicle Launcher Bridge (September 1961); 85 pages, 80 illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.3489}
• TM 5-260 Principles of Bridging (January 1955); 528 pages, 322 illus. Price 53.00 {Item No.2211} [Contains some copyrighted material which we cannot copy.]
• TM 5-265 Bridge M4 (April 1954); 200 pages, 104 illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.1487}
• TM 5-267 Bridge, Floating Aluminum, Highway Type, Deck Balk Superstructure on Pneumatic Floats (M4T6) (June 1959); 152 pages, 132 illus. Price 15.00 {Item No.1488}
• TM 5-270 Standard Stream Crossing Equipment (1 November 1940)(+Changes 1-3); 198 pages, 76+illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.2497}
• TM 5-270 Cableways, Tramways and Suspension Bridges (June 1964); 224 pages, 159 illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1489}
• TM 5-271 Light Stream-Crossing Equipage (10 April 1943); 67 pages, 59 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.2498}
• TM 5-272 Steel-Treadway Bridge M2 (9 May 1944); 69 pages, 45 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.3490}
• TM 5-272 Steel Treadway Bridge Equipment (10 July 1942); 40 pages, 29 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.3491}
• TM 5-273 25-Ton Ponton Bridge Model 1940 (1 July 1942)(+Changes 1 & 2); 143+58 pages, 46+illus. Price 21.00 {Item No.3900}
• TM 5-274 Portable Steel Highway Bridges H-10 and H-20 (18 June 1943); 53 pages, 52 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.3492}
• TM 5-275 Pneumatic Ponton Bridge M3 (19 April 1943); 60 pages, 33 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.3493}
• TM 5-276 Ten-Ton Trestle Bridge (19 October 1943); 54 pages, 41 illus. Price 6.00 {Item No.3494}
• TM 5-277 Bailey Bridge (August 1972); 374 pages, 100+illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1490}
• TM 5-277 Panel Bridge Bailey Type M2 (March 1957)(+Change 1); 488 pages, 292 illus. Price 50.00 {Item No.1491}
• TM 5-278 Outboarding Motors (30 June 1944); 155 pages, 147 illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.4611}
• TM 5-279 Suspension Bridges for Mountain Warfare (31 January 1944); 104 pages, 55 illus. Price 15.00 {Item No.1492}
• TM 5-285 Semipermanent Highway Steel Bridges 30-,60-,90-Foot Spans (27 June 1944); 78 double pages, 56 illus. plus 18 sheets of designs Price 16.00 {Item No.4096}
• TM 5-312 Military Fixed Bridges (December 1968)(+Changes 1 & 2); 424 Pages, 321 illus. Price 45.00 {Item No.1493}
• TM 5-371 I-Beam Railway Bridge (14 March 1944); 49 pages, 12 illus.+17 sheets of illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.3904}
• TM 5-372 Unit Construction Railway Bridge (9 November 1943); 115 pages, 19 illus.+ 29 sheets of illus. Price 12.00 {Item No.3905}
• TM 5-374 Light Standard and Standard Unit Steel Trestles (April 1945); 150 pages, 10 illus.+72 sheets of illus. Price 15.00 {Item No.3906}
• TM 5-600 Bridge Inspection, Maintenance, and Repair (December 1994); 190 pages, 193 illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.2595}
• TR 445-205 Bridges—General Bridging Considerations (13 July 1923); 47 pages, 33 illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.1494}
• TR 445-215 Bridges—Stream Crossing Expedients (24 January 1925); 14 pages, 16 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.1495}
• TR 445-210 Bridges—Approaches, Abutments, and Piers (24 January 1925); 17 pages, 32 illus. Price 2.00 {Item No.1496}
• TR 445-220 Bridging—Stringer Bridges and the Use of Pile and Trestle Supports (13 July 1923)(+Change 1); 24 pages, 19 illus. Price 2.50 {Item No.1497}
• TR 445-230 Bridges—Simple Truss and Suspension Bridges (26 November 1924); 15 pages, 19 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.1498}
• TR 445-235 Bridges—Portable Footbridges (13 July 1923); 14 pages, 15 illus. Price 1.50 {Item No.1499}
• TR 1445-206 Mechanics of Bridge Design and Strength of Materials (30 June 1926); 54 pages, 35 illus., plus many tables Price 5.00 {Item No.1500}
• Training Bulletin No.GT-15 Conference Course. Stream Crossing Expedients (15 January 1943); 27 pages, 32 illus. Price 3.00 {Item No.2585}
• War Dept.Doc.No.492 Ponton Manual (1915); 89 pages, 71 illus. Price 9.00 {Item No.1501}
• Cullum, Brig.-Gen.George W. Systems of Military Bridges in use by the United States Army, Those adopted by the Great European Powers, and such as are employed by British India with directions for the Preservation, Destruction, and Reestablishment of Bridges. D.Van Nostrand: New York (1863); 226 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3068}
• Mertens, Julius K.L (Translated by Walter Krueger). Tactics and Techniques of River Crossings (1918); 253 pages, 105 illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1502} [Contains very good improvised river crossing techniques]

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