FM 55-52 ·Army ·1957 Transportation Terminal Battalion and Terminal Service Company
1. Purpose and Scope This manual provides a guide for all personnel concerned with the activation, organization, training, and employment of the headquarters and headquarters detachment, transportation ter- minal battalion, and the…
FM 8-36 ·Army ·1973 Aidmans Medical Guide
1—1. Purpose and Scope This manual is intended primarily for you, the medical aidman in the field. It tells you what to do with the supplies and equipment that you ean carry and can use without hot or running water or electrical power, It…
FM 23-5 ·Army ·1941 Basic Field Manual U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1
FM 23-5 1 BASIC FIELD MANUAL U. S. RIFLE, CALIBER .30, M1 CHANGES i WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 1 J WASHINGTON, November 15, 1941. FM 23-5, July 20, 1940, is changed as follows: U 34. IMMEDIATE ACTION. b. Procedure.--(1) Rifle fails to fire.-With…
FM 17-80 ·Army ·1944 Armored Medical Units
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL Section I. CHARACTERISTICS OF ARMORED MEDICAL UNITS 1. GENERAL. a. This manual is designed as a supplement to FM 8-10. Herein are contained only those subjects and procedures peculiar to armored medical units. b. Armored…
FM 30-20-1 ·Army ·1966 Arial Surveillance-Recconaissance, Field Army (TEST)
location in which the direction or relative posi- tion of a station is determined by means of its emissions. e. Operational Control. The authority granted a commander to direct forces assigned so that the commander may accomplish specific…
FM 23-15 ·Army ·1943 Browning Automatic Rifle Caliber .30, M1918A2
BROWNING AUTOMATIC RIFLE, CAL. .30, M1918A2 3-7 lation. There are two cyclic rates of full automatic fire, normal and slow, which may be selected by the flrer. The normal cyclic rate is approximately 550 rounds per minute; the slow cyclic…
FM 33-1 ·Army ·1979 Psychological Operations
Psychological factors are an integral part of all battlefields. Each unit movement and every conquest of terrain psychologically affect the battlefield participants and an audience of friendly, neutral, or hostile groups. The psychological…
FM 10-14 ·Army ·1950 Quartermaster Bakery Company, Mobile
Section I. GENERAL 1. PURPOSE This manual provides information necessary for the efficient functioning of the Quartermaster Bakery Company, Mobile (T/O&E 10-147, 22 October 1948). 2. SCOPE a. The manual discusses the mission, organization,…
FM 55-55 ·Army ·1944 Transportation Corps : Railway Operating Battalion
Go ogle This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on Hbrary shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the…
FM 11-157 ·Army ·1967 Signal Large Headquarters Operation Company
Termination of twelve secure high land or airdrop combat army elements frequency radio teletypewriter cir- (combat support) and to provide cuits to higher, adjacent, and sub- Army elements with sustained logisordinate headquarters. tical…
FM 30-17 ·Army ·1972 Counterintelligence Operations
FM 30-17 cludes specific investigations of individuals and incidents which, for the most part, are conducted in an overt but discreet manner. Personnel security investigations (PSI) and complaint-type investigations (CTI) are included in…
FM 4-5 ·Army ·1944 Coast Artillery Tactics (C1)
Yous. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1947—751601 = RESTRICTED FM 4-5 cl FIELD MANUAL COAST ARTILLERY TACTICS CHANGES WAR DEPARTMENT NO. 1 Washington 25, D. C., 8 Aug., 1947 FM 4-5, 20 June 1944, is changed as follows: 2. COASTAK FRONTIER…
FM 17-5 ·Army ·1943 Armored Force Field Manual Armored Force Drill
Armored Force field manual of drill: individual instruction, mounted drill, platoon and company formations, ceremonies and inspections (1943).
FM 100-15 ·Army ·1973 Larger Units-Theater Army-Corps
This manual prescribes Army doctrine and guidance to commanders and staffs for the establishment, organization, administration, and employment of Army units from corps through theater army (TA) level. The manual defines the roles,…
TM 11-371 ·Army ·1944 Cables WC-534 (5-Pair) and WC-535 (10-Pair) and Cable Assemblies CC-345 and CC-355-A
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Method of terminating Cable Assembly CC-355-A (10-pair) and Cable Assembly CC-345 (5-par) and Cable Stub CC-344. The complete illustration represents the termination of CC-355—-A, and the upper molded…
FM 41-10 ·Army ·1957 Civil Affairs Military Government Operations
1. Purpose and Scope This manual is published for the use of all personnel concerned with civil affairs/military government (CAMG) operations. It. is intended for use in conjunction with FM 27-5 and FM 41-15. It is generally applicable to…
FM 21-11 ·Army ·1954 First Aid for Soldiers
1. Purpose and Scope The purpose of this manual is to provide the basic fundamentals of first aid care and treatment which you can apply to yourself or to another soldier before the arrival of trained medical personnel. It includes…
FM 54-6 ·Army ·1969 The Area Support Command
1-1. Purpose This manual provides guidance on the organi- zation and operation of an area support com- mand (ASCOM) for personnel who need infor- mation relative to the combat service support provided to military forces in the communica-…
TM 11-415 ·Army ·1948 Dry Batteries
Describes the types, characteristics, nomenclature, and use of dry batteries used in Army signal equipment, with characteristic and test data.
FM 55-22 ·Army ·1962 Transportation Railway Battalion
CHAPTER 1 PURPOSE AND SCOPE 1. Purpose This manual assists transportation railway op- erating and transportation railway shop battalion officers in the employment of rail units and to provide the basis for the organization, training, and…
FM 23-20 ·Army ·1940 Basic Field Manual. Browning Automatic Rifle, Caliber .30, M1918 Without bipod
4-8 BROWNING AUTOMATIC RIFLE, CALIBER .30, M1918 SECTION II DISASSEMBLY AND ASSEMBLY · 4. WHEN TAKEN UP.-This training will be taken up as soon as practicable after the soldier receives his rifle. In any case it will be completed before…
FM 29-3-1 ·Army ·1969 Direct Support Supply and Service in the Theaters of Operations
Section I. GENERAL 1-1. Purpose and Scope 1-2. Application a. This manual is published to promulgate in- a. This manual applies to units activated or auformation on the provision of supply and services thorized to operate under the…
MCWP 3-23 ·Marine Corps ·1939 DTIC ADA524808: MCWP 3-23 Offensive Air Support
of New Concepts as Background for Consideration. Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS) is a new concept guiding the direction of the Marine Corps. OMFTS is the capstone that encompasses several other supporting concepts such as ship to…
FM 4-102 ·Army ·1943 Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons
FM 4102 WAR DEPARTMENT FIELD MANUAL EMPLOYMENT OF ANTIAIRGRAFT AUTOMATIC — WEAPONS: tion of restricted matter—The inforTs and the essential characterisn to any person known to be in RESTRICTED mation contained in restricted documen tics of…
FM 6-40 ·Army ·1957 Field Artillery Gunnery
General will make possible the proper use of one of the a. Purpose. This manual presents and explains most effective tools available to the combat field artillery gunnery and presents a solution, commander. The principal characteristics…
FM 23-85 ·Army ·1940 60-mm Mortar, M2
Operation and employment of the 60-mm Mortar, M2.
FM 17-47 ·Army ·1977 Air Cavalry Combat Brigade
THE AIR CAVALRY COMBAT BRIGADE The ACCB is organized primarily as a highly mobile force to destroy tanks and other armored vehicles. In describing how the ACCB fights, this manual will discuss employment of attack helicopter battalions and…
FM 510015 ·Army ·1944 Corps Engineer Operations
of follow-on forces. Firepower, both lethal and nonlethal, synergistically combines with maneuver in conducting deep operations. The corps uses a Decide-Detect-Track-Deliver Assess approach that enables the comrnander to take the…
FM 6-141-1 ·Army ·1975 Field Artillery Target Analysis and Weapons Emplyment Nonnuclear
FM 6-141-1 administrative problems when material is declassified; and to assist in cross-referencing. 6. The above referenced manuals cover the concepts of employment and effectiveness of non- nuclear field artillery weapon systems. FM 6-…
FM 55-6 ·Army ·1955