FM 44-2: War Department Field Manual, Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons

FM 44-2 War Department Field Manual, Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons

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FM 44-2

War Department Field Manual, Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons

Army · FM · Mar 1943 · 143 pages

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This manual supersedes FM 4-101, 29 March 1943; FM 4-102, 31 August 1943; FM 4-103, 30 September 1943; and TC No. 63, W.D., 1944. _CHAPTER 1 ORGANIZATION Section I. BATTERY ORGANIZATION 1. BATTERY. a. The fire unit of the automatic weapons battery varies with the type of armament authorized by Tables of Organization and Equipment. b. Mobile or semimobile fire unit armament consists of the 40-mm AA gun on carriage M2, director, power plant, and the multiple caliber .50 machine gun trailer mount M55 (or the multiple calibre .50 machine gun carriage M51). The personnel is divided into a range section, a machine gun section, and a gun section. c. The self-propelled fire unit armament consists of a multiple gun motor carriage M15A1 (or a twin 40-mm gun motor carriage M19) and a multiple gun motor carriage M16. The personnel is divided into an automatic weapons squad and a machine gun squad.

DesignationFM 44-2

EditionMar 1943

StatusSuperseded

Pages143

FunctionFires

CollectionHistoric

Public domain (U.S. Government work)

Editions 3

References 31

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