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Intelligence bulletin.
No full textThis postwar Intelligence bulletin purpose is to furnish intelligence on foreign military forces to the junior officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army. Subjects include weapons, strategy, and tactics. Mar, Apr, May, Jun 1946 are in this section
Intelligence summary for Nov 13 1925 issued by Military Intelligence Division (G-2).
No full textThis is a collection of intelligence summaries issued by the Military Intelligence Division from 1925 and 1926
Functions of the Military Intelligence Division, General Staff.
No full textThe United States, prior to its entry into the present conflict, with its small military establishment, with its isolation and its traditional policy of friendliness to other nations, found itself virtually without those agencies necessary for gathering military information in time of war. On the other hand, it found itself pitted against a nation that had developed the art of gathering military intelligence in all its branches to a degree far surpassing any other similar organization known to history. The capacity for patient, painstaking effort, which the German has developed, had served him well in this task. For two generations, with the determination of making wars for conquest, he had winnowed with minute care every grain of information concerning every possible enemy. The world, during the last four years only, has come to appreciate the extent and the thoroughness of the German organization. Topics include the positive branch, intelligence in the field, negative intelligence, military morale, port control and graft, censorship, and cost
Japanese field artillery, Special Series, no. 25.
No full textThis document describes the Japanese field artillery during World War Two. It addresses the following topics: organization (division and heavy artillery, and observation regiments); basic doctrine (relation of artillery to infantry, forward emplacement, trends- increase of fire power); applied tactics (offensive, defensive, characteristics of Japanese artillery fire); equipment (construction of, summary estimate of, and description of Japanese field artillery); and operational details of Japanese artillery (disassembly and operation of the Model 94 75-mm mountain gun, and recoil and counter-recoil systems)
Guide to maps of the Far East, Special Series, no 31.
No full textIt is highly desirable that military personnel acquire a sufficient working knowledge of certain maps published by foreign countries, to enable reading and use of such foreign maps for planning and intelligence purposes. Consequently, it is the purpose here to discuss briefly the major characteristics of foreign maps in order to assist those who use them
German military symbols, 1 April 1944.
No full textThis document is divided into three parts detailing German military symbols for the German Army, Air Force, and Navy. Sections include the following topics: basic symbols for headquarters, branches of service (arms and services), weapons and equipment, symbols denoting methods of transport, indication of units, supplementary symbols, abbreviations used with basic and tactical symbols, supplementary numerals, and a revised system of military symbols. Part B in the Army category describes the tactical symbols for higher headquarters, combat troops, services, service installations, and transport control. Part C contains special signs and symbols for obstacles and demolitions, river crossings and bridge building, defensive positions, tactical boundaries, map symbols, air-ground communications, and semiofficial auxiliary symbols. For the Air Force: basic symbols and branches of service (guns, installations, and services); supplementary letters and numerals; new system of basic symbols and composition of tactical symbols; tactical symbols for higher headquarters, combat troops, services, and service installations; and special symbols for situation maps (operational and tactical boundaries, reconnaissance/combat/defense activities, and suspected enemy aerial attack and air defense bases). Navy contains information on commanders and commands, ships and formations, defenses, and coast artillery (sea target and aircraft batteries, combat and battery posts, and naval artillery battalions)
Index to intelligence publications, Special Series, no. 23.
No full textThe purpose of this issue of Special Series is to provide a general subject index of current periodic and serial publications of the Military Intelligence Division, War Department. This index covers the Intelligence Bulletin, Tactical and Technical Trends, Military Reports from the United Nations, and Special Series. These four publications are indexed from the dates of their inception through 31 December 1943
Mexico air navigation map /
No full textVarious editions. Relief shown by contours, spot heights and hypsometric tints.; In addition to aeronautical information, four classes of roads or trails, three classes of railroads, and telephone and telegraph lines are shown.; [U.S. Army Map Service. A.M.S. F401].; Set includes various issues of some sheets.; By Geographic Branch, Military Intelligence Division (G-2) General Staff, U.S.A.; Each sheet has personal statements of attribution.; Each sheet has individual title and number.; Elevations are indicated in meters by contours and altitude tints.; On A.M.S. sheets: Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, War Department.; Marginal diagrams: Relative reliability.--Sheet index.; Includes legend. sheet ND15-N. Guatemala City -- sheet NE13-N. Colima -- sheet NE14-N. Mexico City -- sheet NE14-S. Oaxaca -- sheet NE15-N. S. Andreas Tuxtla -- sheet NE15-S. Tehuantepec -- sheet NE16-N/S. Belize -- sheet NF12-N. S.Jose del Cabo -- sheet NF13-N. Mazatlan -- sheet NF13-S. Guadalajara -- sheet NF14-N. Tampico -- sheet NF14-S. Guanajuato -- sheet NF16-S. Merida -- sheet NG12-N. Guaymas -- sheet NG12-S. La Paz -- sheet NG13-N. Jimenez -- sheet NG13-S. Torreon -- sheet NG14-N. Nuevo Laredo -- sheet NG14-S. Monterrey -- sheet NH11-N. Ensenada -- sheet NH11-SE-2/NG11-NE-2. Bartolo-Cardo -- sheet NH12-N. Nogales -- sheet NH12-S. Hermosillo -- sheet NH13-N. Ciudad Juarez -- sheet NH13-S. Chihuahua -- sheet NH14-S. Piedras Negras -- sheet NI11-S. Mexicali.Standard map series designation: [Series] F40
German doctrine of the stabilized front, Special Series, no. 17.
No full textThe aim of this study is to provide a digest of German principles of modern fortifications and the available information concerning the various lines of permanent and field fortifications which Germany had constructed within and outside her frontiers. The paper details the German principles of fortifications (strategic, tactical, and excerpts from "the stabilized front") and German fortified systems (interior and coastal defenses and the West Wall)
Japanese tank and antitank warfare, Special Series, no. 34.
No full textThis document on Japanese tank and antitank warfare details the following topics: Japanese armored fighting vehicles (tankettes, light/medium/amphibious/flame-throwing tanks, self-propelled guns, armored cars, tank radio, tank guns); armored tactics (tactical principles, infantry support, coordination, special tank operations, defense); antitank artillery (infantry weapons, field artillery, antiaircraft and coast defense artillery); antitank mines, rifle grenades, and flame throwers; and antitank methods (employment, tank hunters, antitank obstacles, minefields)
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