To Catch a Tank: “Big Game” Hunting Made Easy
This is a 36 page US Army circular in comic-book format intended to teach soldiers to attack and destroy tanks. It is illustrated with drawings of tanks and a cave-man who makes comments in cartoon...
View ArticleSoviet Equipment Recognition Guide (SERG)
This is a 48 page US Army circular intended to teach soldiers to identify common weapons in the Soviet arsenal. It is illustrated with photographs of Soviet equipment and a cartoon sergeant making...
View ArticleWHO’S WATCHING YOU? CAMOUFLAGE— COVER— CONCEALMENT
This is a 46 page US Army circular using cartoon characters and text to teach soldiers basic skills of concealment. [Document provided courtesy Richard Graham, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries.]
View ArticleCounter Intelligence Corps, History and Mission in World War II
This is an unnumbered special text used by the Counter Intelligence Corps School at Ft Hollibaird, MD, in 1951. It covers the history of the Counter Intelligence Command from 1917 to 1945 with a...
View ArticleAMS Memorandum 425, Grids and Magnetic Cedlinations , February 1945 (with...
Covers the policies and practices of the Army Map Service and shows standard grids and grid data on military maps including British, American polyconic, and American domestic grids; the content and...
View ArticleST 7-193, Tank Identification Handbook, 1982
This special text is a training aid with an introduction giving the basic vocabulary for describing a tank; key features to note when trying to identify a tank; basic descriptions of US, allied, and...
View ArticleMilitary Correspondance: a Check List, 6th ed
As the Forward says, “This pamphlet was prepared as an aid to the students of the Adjutant General’s School in solving their problems in military and non-military correspondence. It is not a text but...
View ArticleOrders: … General Orders, Special, Orders, Bulletins, and Circulars, 6th Ed
The members of the Adjutant General’s Department were the administrative officers of the Army. With the assistance of a large numbers of clerks and other assistants, they had monumental task of...
View ArticleGeneral and Special Staffs
This is a pamphlet providing supplementary information to be used at the Adjutant General’s School. It explains the role of a commander’s principal assistants and the responsibilities of the adjutant...
View ArticleSpecial Text 12-160, Effective Army Writing, 1964
This a useful manual for writing of all types. The guide to research in an appendix is sensible. The “watchlist” is a good guide to avoiding Pentagonese. The author of this text had a sense of humor....
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