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194588250Ottawa: Department of National Defence 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Maps. 1945 Vol.I & II only of 3 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Two volumes of rare military technical reports documenting Exercise Eskimo a significant joint winter warfare field trial conducted in northern Canada during the final stages of World War II. Involving approximately 1750 personnel from the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force the exercise was designed to test the impact of sub-Arctic winter conditions on combat efficiency and military equipment across a wide range of operational areas — from clothing rations and the army postal service to tanks and heavy machinery. The volumes compile core observations technical data prototype equipment evaluations and formal recommendations for future winter operations and are illustrated with photographs throughout. One volume includes five large fold-out maps in rear pockets covering the Advance Withdrawal Lines of Communication Operations Air Operations and Winter Climatic Zones. Some minor occasional marking and creasing to contents; cloth slightly rubbed and marked. No jacket Department of National Defence hardcover
185181247Washington:: Gideon and Co. 1851. First edition. publisher's gilt-lettered ribbed cloth. A beautiful copy. 12mo. Illustrated from engravings. . Ownership inscription of Company A 10th Regt. N.Y.V Jan. 1862 on the front pastedown. Gideon and Co., hardcover
194312163Harrisburg PA: Army Air Forces Intelligence School 1943. Very good. Quarto unpaginated about 100pp. illustrated with 83 original tipped-in photographs and an envelope containing 13 more loose and unidentified images laid-in. Housed in the original cardstock clasped folder. Many of the pages have a bottom fold which does not fully open without the potential to tear though all of the contents can be read with some effort. Some pages a touch foxed and a few prints are loosened from their pages and laid-in in the right place. Overall in very good condition. A well-organized and illustrated military textbook for a wartime class on aircraft identification which was probably taught in many places but organized at the US Army Air Force base in Harrisburg. An introductory sheet in perfect bureaucratic fashion placed near the end of this textbook states: "The course in Aircraft Identification consists of ten hours spaced over a period of six weeks." It goes on to list a series of 42 aircraft--American German Italian French and Japanese--which will be easily identified by all successful students by the end of the course. <br /> <br /> The first few dozen pages consist of detailed folding charts with data on dimensions payloads etc. Another section of about 12pp. gives a background on various best practices when trying to identify aircraft as well as some of the principles behind the course. <br /> <br /> The course utilized the "WEFT" system wings engine fuselage tail to help individuals soldiers intelligence agents etc. identify planes in the field from various angles at different heights and in certain contexts. Most of the pages dedicated to individual planes contain two photographs from different angles and with different shading trying to mimic real battlefield conditions under which someone might try to identify an aircraft.<br /> <br /> An unusually engaging wartime military textbook appealing to photography aviation and military collectors alike. Not located in OCLC thus notably absent in the holdings of the Army War College Library which retains most technical manuals and course books. Army Air Forces Intelligence School unknown
1899185571899. Wagner Arthur L.; Kelley Assistant Adjutant-General; Jerrold J.D. The United States Army and Navy: From the Era of the Revolution to the Close of the Spanish-American War 1899 presenting a comprehensive late nineteenth-century account of American military development with direct relevance to the study of warfare institutional organization and expansion of U.S. military power. The work surveys major conflicts including the Revolutionary War Mexican War Indian Wars and Spanish-American War situating the latter within a period of overseas engagement and changing strategic priorities. It also provides detailed treatment of military structure including administrative divisions pay systems and operational organization within the Army alongside parallel developments in the Navy. Naval sections address earlier conflicts such as the War of 1812 and engagements with Tripoli and France as well as contemporary actions including Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba reflecting the emergence of the United States as a naval power at the close of the nineteenth century.<br /> <br /> Wagner Arthur L.; Kelley; Jerrold J.D. The United States Army and Navy: From the Era of the Revolution to the Close of the Spanish-American War; with Accounts of Their Organization Administration and Duties. Akron Ohio: The Werner Company 1899. First edition. Oblong folio measuring approximately 18 x 13.5 inches illustrated with 43 full-color lithographic plates on heavy stock comprising 25 army subjects and 18 navy subjects each accompanied by descriptive text on protective tissue guards. The plates depict soldiers officers and marines in uniform battlefield scenes and naval vessels including battleships and cruisers providing visual representation of personnel equipment and engagements across multiple conflicts.<br /> <br /> Single oblong folio volume in dark blue cloth with gilt title on the front board. Light wear to edges of spine and boards; text and plates clean and well-preserved; overall very good condition. A large-format illustrated survey of United States military history and organization at the close of the nineteenth century. unknown
1911003923Atlanta GA.: Byrd Printing Co. 1911. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST Edition in original gray cloth; gently bumped corner tips with spine crown frayed/worn. A VERY GOOD volume with some exposed webbing but tight hinges and tight text block. On verso of frontispiece is authors signature we presume it is 'publisher printed' - though no other first editions mention it -A possible SIGNED copy. A shadow of a penciled p.o. name on front end-paper - and scattered mild foxing throughout. A b/w frontispiece of author and title page are partially loose. Just a few bent page tips. Has first edition points - on page 81 line 1 with 'friends' later changed to 'French'; page 154 line 5 has "J".T. Sherman later corrected to W. T. Sherman. Five b/w illustrations plus frontispiece. Hermann served in the Cheat Mountain campaign in Fort Hood McAllister Ga; in Mississippi and in Hood's Tennessee campaign. At rear is Appendix with listings of names of Officers and Privates. 285 pages. Hard to find title. Protected in a mylar slip. <br/> <br/> Byrd Printing Co. hardcover
1959223101959. United States Army Intelligence School. Intelligence training archive. 1959-1963. This archive documents the institutional training system used by the U.S. Army Intelligence School at Fort Holabird during the Cold War outlining how personnel were instructed in reconnaissance mapping foreign intelligence analysis and counterintelligence operations. The material establishes a formal curriculum designed to prepare officers for intelligence work in the context of U.S.-Soviet conflict combining doctrinal interpretation of adversary systems with technical instruction in observation terrain analysis and operational planning. It provides primary evidence of how intelligence training integrated ideological framing with practical field methods.<br /> <br /> Archive of 13 instructional documents totaling approximately 459 pages issued between 1959 and 1963 including manuals technical booklets and training schedules. Titles include 1 Soviet Intelligence Systems Nov 1962 2 Observation and Description Jan 1961 3-5 Military Map Reading booklets 1959-1961 6 Interpretation of Highways Bridges and Transportation Facilities Oct 1961 7 USAINTS Library Guide Jan 1962 8 Operational Data on South Korea I Sep 1962 9 Nuclear Warfare II Jun 1963 10 Benelux Jul 1961 11 Solution of Dispersion Problems undated and 12-13 weekly training schedules June and July 1963. The manuals include diagrams and exercises on map reading identifying "recognition distance and direction" as core elements with annotated examples of azimuth calculation and grid use. Instructional material in Observation and Description includes facial and morphological diagrams distinguishing features such as "Vertical Forehead" and "Bushy" eyebrows for identification purposes. Soviet Intelligence Systems presents ideological analysis stating that Soviet security organs are "extensions of the Party's designs" and describing intelligence as "a pervasive force which envelops every sector of society." Infrastructure manuals include photographic examples of roads and bridges for field identification while the Library Guide outlines access systems and spatial organization of intelligence resources. Weekly schedules list training components such as report writing practical exercises and seminars alongside technical instruction in photography.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period of sustained Cold War tension these materials show how the U.S. Army formalized intelligence education by combining political interpretation of adversaries with standardized technical training. The emphasis on mapping surveillance and infrastructure analysis reflects preparation for both conventional and nuclear-era operations while the inclusion of regional studies such as South Korea and Benelux indicates geographic scope within global strategic planning. Minor rust to staples light edge toning and scattered manuscript annotations; occasional corner creases and small marginal tears not affecting text; overall very good. A cohesive archive of Cold War intelligence training preserving the instructional methods and analytical frameworks used by the U.S. Army in the early 1960s. unknown
18592003090026Washington D.C. : A.O.P. Nicholson printer 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Superior copy Volume X. Reptiles and fishes of the several routes ; Zoological reports on routes near 38th and 39th 41st 35th and 32d parallels ; On routes in California to connect with those near 35th and 32d parallels ; Reptiles of routes in California and Oregon. Quarto. 30 cm. Bound in contemporary marbled boards modern leather spine. Pages are remarkably clean and unmarked. A few plates have minor offsetting but besides a near fine copy. Hand-colored zoological plates and many in black and white. <br> The reports of the Pacific railroad surveys were prepared under the direct supervision of the Engineer Department. The vols. dealing with the soil climate geology botany and zoology of the regions surveyed were edited and revised by Professors Henry and Baird of the Smithsonian institution--cf. Ingersoll History of the War Department 1879 p. 292-293. Ex. doc. United States. Congress. House 33rd Congress 2nd Session no. 91. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer hardcover
2006SONG1584872470Brand: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War Co 2006-01-01. hardcover. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War Co hardcover
1938108443Adelaide: AAMC Reunion Committee 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide AAMC Reunion Committee 1938. Oblong octavo ii title page verso blank 201 pages plus 19a and its printed verso numbered 21a with some illustrations all produced in brown ink from processed typescript plus 47 pages of plates and 8 unnumbered sectional title leaves all versos blank; all but 6 of the first 30 and 2 later pages are printed rectos only. Flush-cut pictorial wrappers with light wear to the extremities and a few trifling surface blemishes; occasional light foxing and mild signs of handling; a very good copy of a rare and unusual item. 'Ever since the cessation of hostilities of the Great War 1914-1918 it has been the wish of Australian Army Medical Corps AIF ex-servicemen in South Australia that we should have some permanent record of our Fallen Comrades and to those who have "Passed On" since returning to Australia. The following pages are the expression of that wish' foreword. The Honor Rolls run to 18 pages. Other contents include the reunion programme with a list of guests Digger songs 'War and Other Verses' and a lengthy section of war statistics and related items of interest. We have previously handled a copy in which was loosely inserted a 'Critique of the book by the Editor "Rising Sun"' dated Adelaide 31 March 1938. The information contained in our catalogue note at the time is worth repeating: 'Presumably the reference is to "The Rising Sun. A Journal of the AIF in France. With which is incorporated 'The Honk'"; nineteen numbers were issued between 25 December 1916 and 24 March 1917 see Fielding and O'Neill page 264. The anonymous critic is not only onside; his intimate remarks about the compilation and production of the book suggest he was very much inside as well. He writes the following about the AAMC Orderly Room in Adelaide where the work was done: "the well remembered atmosphere of a dug-out was warmly recaptured. On the walls were Leyshon White pictures crisp of technique and so faithfully capturing the spirit that existed 'over there'. War-time quips were bandied freely; each chic female helper may well have been the ghost of Mam'selle herself; each flurry of sound from passing traffic may well have been the whine of more sinister objects"'. <p>Dornbusch addenda 535; Fielding and O'Neill page 233 supplying the name of the editor; Trigellis-Smith 316. [AAMC Reunion Committee] paperback
MA03H-00143The Infantry Journal. Collectible - Acceptable. Washington: Infantry Journal Inc. 1943. 3rd edition. 24mo. v360pp. Illus. Fair book. Front hinge broken. Spine cover torn. Armed Forces drill and tactics mortars handbooks and manuals Inquire if you need further information. The Infantry Journal unknown
19468371s.l. n.d.: printed by Printing and Stationery Service British Army of the Rhine c. 1946. Oblong folio 37 x 43.5 cm ff. iv 76 i. Atlas volume containing numerous b/w maps photographs architectural elevations and statistical tables of which 3 are folding bound in publishers brown cloth font cover blocked in gilt with the 21st Army Group formation sign and the legend Port Repair Works by Transportation Units of the Royal Engineers: The River Rhine. Rusting to staples covers a little bowed. Uniform volumes chronicled port repair works at Ostend Dieppe Boulogne and Calais; COPAC suggests various dates c. 1945-1950. 21st Army Group commanded by Montgomery was the principal British and Canadian formation in the Allied invasion of northwestern Europe which evolved into the BAOR. Most of the Rhine crossings were bombed by the Allies or destroyed by retreating German forces. The first part of this work details the construction of semi-permanent bridges at Arnhem Xanten Rees and Spyck. The second part covers the equally urgent task of making the Rhine a navigable waterway for the transport of supplies: large debris from 23 demolished bridges was cleared with the use of depth charges and other high explosives. Book printed by Printing and Stationery Service, British Army of the Rhine hardcover
1794AQ22706London: Printed by B. Millan printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 1794. viii 102pp. With a half-title. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked spine dulled. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Robert Saunders Dundas Second Viscount Melville 1771-1851 to FEP. The first edition of an anonymous history charting the rise and progress of British Army regiments throughout the conflicts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries particularly in regard to their involvement in the Eighty Years War 1568-1648 and subsequent Anglo-Dutch hostilities. The latter half the text is devoted solely to the formation and activities of the Scots Brigade an infantry brigade that served in the army of the Dutch Republic and were instrumental in the Revolution of 1688 and the suppression of the Jacobite Risings before being amalgamated into the Dutch line regiments in 1782. ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles BL Manchester NLS NLW Oxford and Trinity College and a further in North America Folger Harvard and Royal Military College. ESTC T82426. First edition. 8vo. Printed by B. Millan, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales unknown
1720AQ30320London: Printed for J. Roberts.and A. Dodd 1720. 2 8pp. Modern marbled paper boards. Leaves dust-soiled. The second edition printed in the same year as the first of the first formal listing of the terms and prices applying to the purchase of infantry and cavalry commissions. The practice of purchasing commissions began during the reign of Charles II and continued until abolished in 1871 as a part of the Cardwell Reforms. The highest 'tariff' for a commission recorded here is that of a colonelcy in Lord Irwin's Regiment for the staggering sum of £9000. ESTC N40105. Second edition. Folio. Printed for J. Roberts...and A. Dodd hardcover
1805AQ27804London: Printed by T. Curson Hansard for Richard Phillips 1805. 59pp 1. Stitched in original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Housed in modern marbled paper slipcase. Chipping to wrapper edges neat paper repair to spine. Shaved at head with occasional loss of text marginal fire damage to leaves A5-B2 closed tear to leaf B4 softening to corners. An apparently unrecorded register of British Army officers printed at the height of the War of the Third Coalition including India regiments the militia of England Royal African Corps and the corps of New South Wales. . 12mo. Printed [by T. Curson Hansard] for Richard Phillips unknown
1684AQ22744London: Printed by J. Gain for Nathan Brooks 1684. 4 19pp 1. Modern gilt-tooled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Minor Shelf-wear. Leaves browned and spotted leaf D1 cropped at foot with some loss of text and sense. The first edition of a Restoration list of officers in the English Army including 'The Proper Distinctions of their Cloathings Badges of Honour and Colours of each Troop and Regiment' and an account of the review upon Putney Heath 1st October 1684. ESTC R14469. Wing G407. First edition. Folio. Printed by J. Gain, for Nathan Brooks unknown
2508410 and 11 October 1782. London War Office Regarding Carolina North America. With other accounts from 1826 on reverse. A valuable artefact of the American War of Independence: a leaf from a British War or Colonial Office ledger detailing payments to officials in General Leslie’s administration in Carolina in 1782. Among many details are references to the Loyalist units the North Carolina Highlanders and New York Volunteers as well as to Colonel Probart Howarth Governor of Fort Johnson and to Colonel de Benning Friedrich von Benning Commander of James Island where one of the last Battles of the war at which Kosciuszko was nearly killed would take place a few days after the entries those of the entries in this ledger. 1p folio. On one side of a leaf of laid paper with fleur-de-lys armorial watermark. Worn and slightly discoloured with closed tear along central fold line repaired with archival tape. The leaf is evidently part of a ledger. It is numbered 19 and headed ‘99 / Extraordinaries in North America’ with the payments being to ‘David Thomas Esqr / Carolina’. The sums involved are substantial: the opening balance brought forward is for £214908 11s 9 1/2d and the closing balance to be carried forward being £216710 7s 7 1/2d. The leaf has been neatly ruled in red with columns for ‘Warrants’ subdivided into ‘by whom granted’ and ‘Dates’ details of payments and sums paid. The ten payments nine of them dating from 10 October and the last one from 11 October 1782 are all on warrants granted to ‘Lt. Genl. Leslie’. The first six entries are highly detailed and the seventh to the tenth are additions to the sixth. First for £111 5s 0d: ‘Paid Capt. John McKinnon Depy. Quar. Masr. Genl. witht. dedn. being his Pay at 10s/. a day & Pay for Lieutts. Rankin & Bard as actg. Depy. Quar. Masr. Genl. at 5s/. a day from 1st. July to 30th. Septr. 1782. also for Lieutt. Condner from 1st. July to 17th. Septr. 1782 at 5s/ P day’. The second for £39 17s 4d: ‘Paid Lt. John Reeve of 82d Regt. of Foot witht. dedn. being Pay for himself as actg. Quar Masr. at 4s/8d. Pr day. & for Mr. Mc.Pherson as Actg. Adjt. to said Regt. at 4s/- Pr. Day from 1st. July to 30th. Septr. 1782’. Third for £155 13s 8d annotated ‘1 Warrt. at Audrs. Office’: ‘Paid Lieut Edwd. Scott Secy. to Genl. Leslie being for Money paid by himself to Coll. de Benning as an Extra Allownce during his Command on James Island from 16th. Mau to 6th Octr. 1782’. Fourth for £31 1s 10d: ‘Paid Ensn. Robt. Mc.Pherson being Pay for Captn. McRa. late of the North Carolina Highlanders at 5s/- Pr. day & for Ensn. McKay at 1s./10d. Pr Day from 25th. Septr. to 24th. Decr. 1782.’ Fifth for £502 16s 8d: ‘Paid Captn. Willm. Johnson Paymts. to the New York Volunteers being their Pay from 25th. Augst. to 24th. Octr. 1782’. Sixth £405 18s 4d: ‘Paid the followg. Civil Officers of South Carolina being an Allowce. made to them by order of the Lords Commissrs. of His Majesty’s Treasury all witht. dedn. Vizt. Honble Willm. Bull Esqr. Lt. Govr. from 5th. July 1781 to 10th. Octr. 1782’. Seventh for £88 15s 10d: ‘Honble. Thos. Skoltow Esqr. Secy. from Do. to Do.’ Eighth for £180 19s 2d: ‘Honble Thos. K. Gordon Esqr. Chief Justice from Do. to Do.’ Ninth for £31 14s 1d: ‘Jas. Johnson Esqr. Clerk of the Crown from Do. to Do.’ Tenth for £253 13s 11d: ‘Col. Probart Howarth Govr. of Fort Johnson from Do. to Do.’ In 1826 advantage was taken of the blank reverse of the leaf which was evidently torn out of the ledger at this point when three sets of itemized commissary accounts were given after ‘Stock taken Sept 1. 1826’ the sums involved in one case hams bacon butter and other items totaling £10000 5s 7d. It was then folded four times into a packet dated ‘Sept 1. 1826’. See Image. 10 and 11 October 1782. [London, War Office? Regarding Carolina, North America.] With other accounts from 1826 on reverse. unknown
List3122United States N.d. Overpainted albumen photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 8 ½ inches mounted on heavy cardstock. Slight marginal wear; excellent to Near Fine. An overpainted albumen photograph portrait of an unknown Union Army soldier who appears to be quite young dressed in Union fatigues. Though boys under 18 were not supposed to be able to enlist many did so anyway with some estimating that around 200000 underage boys joined the Union Army all told.1 Despite General Order 73 which ordered that “no discharges will be granted to volunteers . on the grounds of minority†so many families tried to get their underaged sons back from the Army that the New York Times called it an “epidemicâ€2. Nonetheless the brave child drummer boy or soldier became an iconic image of the Union cause.1<br /> <br /> 1 Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plante “Why the Union Army Had So Many Boy Soldiers†Smithsonian Magazine January 17 2023 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-the-union-army-had-so-many-boy-soldiers-180981458/.<br /> 2 “The Plea of Infancy an Epidemic†The New York Times August 27 1861 3. unknown
194417880<p>Washington DC: Recruitment Publicity Bureau of the US Army 1944 First edition. Uncommon. . Original wrappers depicting blonde woman in WAC uniform working on a map. . Quarto. 7.75 in. x 8.25 in. . With photographic reproductions on every page. There is some toning to back cover. Staples are rusted. A very good copy. This printed booklet promotes the Women's Army Corps to potential recruits. The first leaf introduces the WAC woman: "She has enlisted for the duration. Her hands and her ability contribute to a swifter victory." They describe a why a woman becomes a WAC member: "Because she shares a peaceful world she knows she must share the fight to help restore the peace we have lost." The booklet includes full-page photos of different roles for which WAC members can be trained such as Code Clerk Topographical Draftsman Bookbinder Artist Mimeograph Operator and more. Short biographies and photos for real WAC women are featured. For example the biography for a bookbinder is: "Preservation of vital Army records by binding notes memoranda and other papers into book form is the assignment of Private First Class Martha L.H. Healan at the Field Artillery School. Private Healan whose home is in Gainesville Georgia was an inspector in a wearing apparel factory in civilian life. She learned bookbinding in the WAC."</p> Recruitment Publicity Bureau of the US Army,
1903003671Colombo Ceylon now Sri Lanka 1903. Half Morocco. Very Good. 8vo. 18.5 by 14.5 cm. iv 44 pp. the leaves made of heavy card stock. The author a colonial officer for the British army would later publish "The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps" which contained his color illustrations of uniforms arms and equipment and other works. From this work it is clear he had artistic aptitude and as an officer in Ceylon undoubtedly a lot of free time to indulge in the creation of this work. It would seem that this work was written with an eye on possible publication but that did not come to be. Few will not be charmed by the many vignettes of badges and coats-of-arms mostly rendered in bright watercolors with some done as ink drawings. Also illustrated are flags and banners. Some of the tissue guards are heavily foxed while the cards proper sometimes have offsetting from this soiling. A large chipped loss to the leather spine with a partial loss of one letter of title. Still a very handsome album. unknown
1959jx150Statesville NC: Business and Defense Services Administration U.S. Dept. of Commerce. 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾. 1959 Future Development of the San Francisco Bay Area 1960-2020- Economic Aspects of Growth. Business and Defense Services Administration U.S. Dept. of Commerce Statesville NC. The set contains a reference volume explaining the research data and 23 folded maps. Most of the maps are 36"x 42" and have never been unfolded. The document "Future Development of the San Francisco Bay Area 1960-2020: Economic Aspects of Growth" provides a comprehensive survey of the economic aspects of the San Francisco Bay Area's development over the specified period. It includes detailed information on population growth employment and economic growth land for urban needs and the reclamation of marsh tide and submerged lands. The plan presents a decade-by-decade chart for growth management. Among the factors considered are land use population distribution freeway development employment and economic growth. The set is contained within a red buckram slip case 11.5"x9.75". This original complete set is in near fine condition. Business and Defense Services Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Hardcover
19740278761974. Paperback. Very Good. Pools 11-22. This set includes 11 volumes one for each pool 11 volumes of supplements one for each pool Summary of Findings volume. All are plastic spiral bound and measure 11 x 17 inches. Illustrated with color maps photographs drawings tables diagrams. All in excellent condition. These were submitted to a library to be placed in the reference department but never entered into the collection. There are no library markings. Pools 11-22 cover the part of the river from Guttenberg Iowa to Saverton Missouri.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. paperback
29029501Washington D.C. ca. 1941-1943. A.A.F. uniform jacketshirt trousers garrison cap olive drab green pins rank badge pins medals & wings with patches:"FLYING TIGERS" "C.B.I." & A.A.F. patchs. Air Force. unknown
194759692Madrid: Servicio Histórico Militar 1947-1981. 4 Vols. con distinta encuadernación numerosas láminas planos desplegables. Rústica y tapa dura tomo II. Buen estado general. Historia militar detallada de las campañas españolas en Marruecos desde el siglo XIX hasta los años veinte del siglo XX incluyendo antecedentes campañas aspectos estratégicos y políticos del conflicto. Servicio Histórico Militar paperback
1970158618北京.Beijing.: No publication details. circa1970. Coloured Chinese Air Defence broken run of 5 posters. Each poster in this small collection is numbered. The collection is made up of poster numbers 10 11 12 13 and 16. <br> <br>The posters are in secondhand condition. Two are poorer condition than the others as there is loss along a margin of each although this loss does not affecting the images themselves. There is creasing and wear and tear particularly at edges and one poster is damp stained. There are some tape repairs on the reverse one Text in Chinese. Poster sheets measure appoximately 54 x 77.5 cm. Poster no. 10 shows 3 images which demonstrate the methods which could be used to fire at enemy aeroplanes. The images are accompanied by detailed instructions. The speed and size of the aeroplane and the angle from which the shot is taken and the distance from the target are all taken into consideration. A chart in the centre gives details of how to prepare in advance for shooting an enemy aircraft. The chart gives details of how to calculate the plane's length taking into account its size and distance to make sure of an accurate shot. <br> <br>Poster no. 11 shows 3 images which demonstrate methods to fire at enemy paratroopers again with detailed instructions of how to do this. A chart in the centre gives details of how to prepare in advance for shooting an enemy aircraft. The chart gives details of how to calculate the plane's length taking into account its size and distance to make sure of an accurate shot. <br> <br>Poster no. 12 depicts 5 images showing various anti-aircraft firing positions. They are: position for one person to lift and stabilise the rifle while the other person aims; position aided by fortification; position aided by tree branches; position aided by walls; and kneeling position. <br> <br>Poster no. 13 includes 5 images showing two squads rifle shooting squad and machine gun shooting squad who are in charge of the anti-aircraft placement and the three main targeted aircraft bomber military cargo aircraft and helicopter which these squads wish to shoot. <br> <br>Poster no. 16 includes 6 images showing plans and the actions required to rescue perform urgent repairs and maintain law and order. Each with detailed instructions. It suggests: to report to the relevant government agency and evacuate nearby civilians unexploded bombs are discovered; during air strikes lay down perimeters around shops to prevent from looting; to restore transportation by clearing roads immediately after air raids; to urgently repair damaged electric wires and water pipes; the major patrol sites: factories shops warehouses dams bridges and the power station and to arrest suspects if necessary; to put out fire immediately and to make sure the safety of the civilians are the most important. <br> <br>中國人民解放軍總參謀部動員部Mobilization Division of People's Liberation Army General Staff Department was first formed in 1954 and later joined with 中国人民解放军总参谋部军务部 Military Division of People's Liberation Army General Staff Department to form a joint division in 1969. The Division returned to its original name in 1975. . No publication details. unknown
194470216New York: Army Information Branch 1944. Large broadsheet approx. 35" x 47" one side with three maps printed in red and black of the Eastern Front Europe and the Pacific and four photographs of the front showing the Bombing of Cassio and German landmines; the verso with a large relief map of North Burma. Old fold edgewear and some chipping to corners and small holes good and sound. Together with: Newsmap for the armed forces. 276th week of the war - 158th week of U. S. participation. Monday 25 December 1944 - Week of 13 December to 20 December. Volume III No. 36 F. Large broadsheet approx. 35" x 47" one side with 4 maps illustrating the siege of Budapest the Pacific theater the German advance on the western front and Mindoro; the verso with a large relief map of South Burma and Thailand. Old fold light toning otherwise near fine. These two issues placed together create a contiguous map of Burma the western edge of Thailand including Bangkok and the Eastern edge of India into Calcutta. Part info newsletter part propaganda Newsmap was established by the U.S. government to provide up-to-date information on the state of the war and improve the morale of the military. Army Information Branch unknown
