NAVAL ORDNANCE

Military Manual Photocopies available from Military/Info

• FM 30-58 Military Intelligence. Identification of Japanese Naval Vessels (29 December 1941); 182 pages, 100+illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.4583}
• Office of Naval Intelligence. Naval Reserves, Training, and Materiel (June 1888); 433 pages, 50+ illus. Price 50.00 {Item No.5104} [General Information Series, No.VII. Information from Abroad][Sections on: Naval Training, Naval Reserves, Coast Defense, Target Practice afloat, Electricity on shipboard, Marine boilers, Preservation of Iron Ship Bottoms, Transportation of torpedo boats, Ships, Machinery, Ordnance, Armor, Armor piercing projectiles, Torpedoes, Torpedo boats]
• Navy Department. Instructions for Gunner's Mate 2c in Preparation for the Rating of Gunner's Mate 1c and Turret Captain 1c. A course in 17 assignments (1925); 6 vol., 256 pages, 65+illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.2920} [Vol.1 and Vol.2 have many detailed illustrations of the manufacture of naval guns and smokeless powder ]
• NAVAER 00-805-57 Aircraft Torpedo and Launching Data (May 1945); 48 pages, Many illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.4768} [Must photocopy 1 page on sheet of paper because of book format]
• NAVPERS 10158-A Gunner’s Mate 3 (1952); 337 pages, 248 illus. Price 34.00 {Item No.3724} [Org.on hand][Good copy]
• NAVPERS 10173 Fire Control Technician 3 (1956); 250 pages, 50+illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.4238}
• NAVPERS 10174 Fire Control Technician 2 (1956); 386 pages, 100+illus. Price 38.00 {Item No.4246}
• NAVPERS 10177 Fire Control Technician 1 & Chief Vol.2 (1954); 389 pages, 100+illus. Price 39.00 {Item No.4359} [Includes: General aspects of antiaircraft fire control, general maintenance, ordnance alinement, spotting gunfire, naval gunfire support, observation and analysis of gunnery exercises]
• NAVPERS 10181  Gunner's Mate 3 (1958); 618 pages, 100+illus.  Price 65.00 {Item No.216}
• NAVPERS 10186 Gunner’s Mate 1 & C (1954); 599 pages, 50+illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.4177}
• NAVPERS 10797-A Naval Ordnance and Gunnery (Vol.1-Naval Ordnance)(1957); 365 pages, 200+illus. Price 35.00 {Item No.2171}
• NAVPERS 10798-A Naval Ordnance and Gunnery (Vol.2-Fire Control)(1957); 520 pages, 200+illus. Price 50.00 {Item No.2172} [The above pair are detailed textbooks on all types of naval ordnance. A detailed overview on 1950’s vintage naval weapons and fire control, showing the transition from guns (up to 16”) to guided missiles]
• NAVSHIPS 250-336 Wood: A Manual for its Use as a Shipbuilding Material (Vol.I)(July 1945/ October 1957); 63 pages, 27 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.3468}
• NAVSHIPS 250-336 Wood: A Manual for its Use as a Shipbuilding Material (Vol.II)(July 1945/January 1958)(+Change 1); 67 pages, 53 illus. Price 7.00 {Item No.3469}
• Navy Department. Notes on Fire Control 1940 for U.S.Naval Reserve (1941); 394 pages, 100+illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.4073}
• Navy Department. Gunnery Instructions for U.S.Naval Reserve (1930); 219 pages, 7 illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.4396}
• Navy Department. Gunnery Instructions for U.S.Naval Reserve Force (1924); 224 pages, illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.4287} [Good on basic principles, gun drill, and spotting]
• Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation. Navy Training Courses. Instructions for use in preparation for the Rating of Gunner’s Mate 2c. A course in seventeen assignments prepared under the supervision of the Bureau of Navigation (Edition of 1939); 428 pages, 50+illus. Price 43.00 [ Contains an excellant collection of lessons on ordnance including Lewis, Colt and other machine guns, as well as artillery weapons.]{Item No.3642}
• Navy Department. Bureau of Navigation. Navy Training Courses. Instructions for use of Naval Personnel Engages in the Operation and Care of Diesal Engines. A course in twenty-two assignments prepared under the supervision of the Bureau of Navigation (Edition of 1941); 597 pages, 200+illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.3821}
• 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]
• U.S.Naval Academy, Department of Ordnance and Gunnery. Range and Ballistic Tables, 1935. Printed for the use of the Midshipmen at the U.S.Naval Academy. In connection with the Textbook Exterior Ballistics, 1935. (1 September 1935); 124 pages, many charts Price 14.00 {Item No.3971} [Range tables for 1-pdr to 16 inch Guns]
• U.S. Navy, Bureau of Navigation, Office of Naval Intelligence."The Bombardment of the Fortifications at Alexandria,"War Series No.III., Part I. by Lt.-Commander Casper F.Goodrich, USN (1883); 110 pages, 84 illus. Price 11.00 {Item No.20220} [From "Report of the British Naval and Military Operations in Egypt, 1882"] [Includes Sections I-VII of the report] [Details]
• U.S.Naval Training Station Great Lakes, Illinois. Ordnance Instruction Book. Gunner’s Mates School 1917-1918; 197 pages, 12 plates of illus., foldouts Price 20.00 {Item No.3640}
• Jacues, William H. Ericsson’s Destroyer and Submarine Gun. Being a consideration of their application to naval warfare, the advantages of the system, together with a short history of submarine artillery. New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons (1885); 48 pages, illus. Price 5.00 {Item No.3127}
• Ramsey, Lt.H.C. Elementary Naval Ordnance and Gunnery. Including Close-Order Infantry (with 1918 Drill Regulations); Boston: Little, Brown, and Company (1918); 412 pages, 50+illus. Price 42.00 {Item No.3987}

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