‎Militaire‎

‎Strategic Studies Institute (US), . (Primary Contributor)/ Army War College (US), . (Primary Contributor)/ Colwell Jr, John (Pri‎

‎U.S.-India Relationship: Cross-Sector Collaboration to Promote Sustainable Development‎

‎Department of the Army 2017. Paperback. New. 532 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. Department of the Army paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1-1584876360 ISBN : 1584876360 9781584876366

‎ARMY & NAVY STORES‎

‎General Price List 1939-40.‎

‎London. Army & Navy Stores 1939. 4to. lxx1127pp. Original red cloth a little wear to backstrip. Many thousands of line drawn illustrations. A very good copy. An amazing selection of goods available at the outbreak of World War II in Britain. London. Army & Navy Stores, 1939. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 217661

‎US Army‎

‎Ranger Handbook Training Circular TC 3-21.76: April 2017 Field Pocket Size‎

‎Independently Published 2018-10-12. paperback. Used: Good. 6.00x0.93x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Independently Published paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : SONG1728730457 ISBN : 1728730457 9781728730455

‎Center of Military History United States Army (Compiler)‎

‎The U.S. Army in World War II: A Pictorial Record‎

‎Artabras 1990. Hardcover. New. 10.70x7.60x4.50 inches. Artabras hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1-0896600106 ISBN : 0896600106 9780896600102

‎US Department of the Army U S‎

‎Tactics in Counterinsurgency: The Official U.S. Army / Marine Corps Field Manual FM3-24.2 FM 90-8 FM 7-98‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8176559 ISBN : 1907521011 9781907521010

‎Army Council‎

‎ARMY TRAINING MEMORANDUM: No 28 1940-45 War Parts 28-42 and 46-52‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 5765419-n ISBN : 1847348394 9781847348395

‎U S Army‎

‎Volume 2 of 2 Engine Maintenance Manual LD 465-1 / LD 465-1C / LT 465-1C LDS-465-1A / LDS 465-2 Engines TM 9-2815-210-34-2-2‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43148764-n ISBN : 1954285485 9781954285484

‎Engineers, Us Army Corps Of,‎

‎Engineering and Design‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18801302-n ISBN : 1780397550 9781780397559

‎Engineers, U S Army Corps Of,‎

‎Hydraulic Design Of Small Boat Harbors‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3331567-n ISBN : 1410217671 9781410217677

‎U S Army‎

‎M44A2 Series 2.5 Ton Military Truck Transmission Transfer Case and PTO Maintenance Manual TM 9-2520-246-34-1 With TM 9-2520-246-34P‎

‎like new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43148763 ISBN : 1954285426 9781954285422

‎US Army U S‎

‎Illustrated 1923 History Honoring Black Soldiers in the United States Army's Twenty Fourth Infantry 1923‎

‎1923. African American MilitaryWWI Muller William G. The Twenty-Fourth Infantry 1923 documents the service of a Black regiment in the United States Army tracing its development from Reconstruction through the Mexican Border War. Written by Captain William G. Muller the volume situates the regiment's origins in the 1869 consolidation of the 38th and 41st Infantry regiments among the first post-Civil War units composed of Black enlisted men and follows its campaigns across the Western frontier Cuba during the Spanish American War and Mexico during the 1916 to 1917 Punitive Expedition. Produced at a time when Black military service was constrained by segregation the work offers insight into the service of Buffalo Soldiers in the decades preceding formal desegregation.<br /> <br /> Muller William G. The Twenty-Fourth Infantry. 1923. The text opens with a dedication "To those colored non-commissioned officers and soldiers whose unswerving loyalty and devotion of the regiment made possible these brilliant pages of history." Extensively illustrated with photographic portraits of senior Black noncommissioned officers among them Regimental Sergeant Major Walter B. Williams Color Sergeant Wm. G. Wilcox and Regimental Color Sergeant Abraham Hill identified as "one of the Army's great rifle shots." Additional images document encampments in New Mexico and Texas scenes from Mexico during the Punitive Expedition and regimental athletics including a football team that competed against historically Black colleges such as Tuskegee and Talladega. The narrative emphasizes the regiment's record of discipline and cohesion asserting that its "high character.unsullied for 54 years" reflected institutional stability amid shifting national racial politics.<br /> <br /> The history reflects an effort to commemorate the service record of Black soldiers at a moment when their contributions to westward expansion the Spanish American War and border conflicts were indispensable. The sustained attention to leadership merit marksmanship and athletic competition underscores the high professional standards Black soldiers were held to in the face of systemic discrimination. Minor edge wear and light rubbing to the binding; interior generally clean with occasional light toning; illustrations clear and complete. Overall very good. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21595

‎Army & Navy Publishing Conmpany‎

‎Historical And Pictorial Review March Field Air Base United States Army Air Forces March Field California‎

‎Baton Rouge: Army & Navy Publishing Conmpany 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to. 163pp illustrated with photographs including small portraits of the various troops stationed at the base navy buckram with gilt titles moderate general wear extremities worn through in places contents clean and bright. This was the personal copy of Carroll R. Barton whose name is at front on the presentation page along with the signature of his Commanding Officer. Scarce. Army & Navy Publishing Conmpany Hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024682

‎Dept, United States Army Ordnance,‎

‎The Ordnance Manual For the Use Of Officers Of the United States Army‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 45057612-n ISBN : 1017764468 9781017764468

‎Army Air Forces‎

‎Army Air Forces Instrument Letdown Procedures‎

‎Army Air Forces 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Good/No dust jacket. Fairfield VA: Army Air Forces 1944 presumed first edition. Oversized paperback in good condition; curl to corners mild soiling to covers. 8.5 x 11 in. 179 pp. Technical order no. 08-15-3. Diagrams showing approach & landing data for airfields across the US. Army Air Forces paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 6171

‎Unknown [Army and Naval Stores Limited]‎

‎General Price List 1937-1940: Army and Naval Stores Limited‎

‎London: Army and Naval Stores Limited 1937-1940. Cloth. Good. 10" by 8". Various. Two original department store catalogues from Army and Navy Stores Limited both published in the immediate build-up and beginning of the Second World War with thousands of original advertisements. The original General Price Lists of the popular London department store Army and Naval Stores Limited during the years 1937-1940 during the lead up and outbreak to the Second World War. Two volumes no. 103 1937-1938 and no. 104 1939-1940 in the series. In the publisher's original red cloth. Numerous illustrated advertisements throughout both volumes including on end papers. 1937-1938 contains three colour plates while 1939-1940 contains four colour plates. Collated complete. Originally established as a co-operative society for military and naval personnel in in the late nineteenth century by 1937 the group had become a limited company and a department store open to all with its flagship store in Victoria Street London. The department stores was eventually bought by House of Fraser in 1973.The catalogues contain an array of original advertisements during the immediate build-up and first year of the Second World War including military badges rifles beds and much more. In the publisher's original red cloth. Externally mostly smart with fading to boards heavier to 1937-1938 and spine of 1939-1940. Rubbing to 1937-1938 has resulted in loss to black glint on boards heavier to spine and extremities. Slight loss to cloth on front joint of 1937-1938 and a small loss to top left corner of black board. Small spots to spine of 1939-1940. Signs of shelf wear with bumping to tail of spine and extremities of 1939-1940 and to spine of 1937-1938. End papers are bright and clean with slight dirt trapped to hinges heavier to 1937-1938. Signs of wear to end paper hinges of 1937-1938 heavier to rear end papers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with slight age toning to the occasional leaf. Good Army and Naval Stores Limited hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 990N1

‎SERVICIO HISTORICO MILITAR‎

‎HISTORIA DE LAS CAMPAÑAS DE MARRUECOS. 4 Tomos Completo‎

‎Madrid: 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 59692

‎FERNANDEZ DE CORDOVA, Luis (Agregado militar a la embajada de SM en Paris) S M‎

‎ORGANIZACIÓN E INSTRUCCIÓN DE LA INFANTERÃA FRANCESA EN 1893. Memoria elevada al Excmo. Señor Ministro de la Guerra.‎

‎Madrid: El Correo Militar 1894. 23'5x17 102p 1h. Rústica moderna con la cubierta original superpuesta. Buen estado. El Correo Militar paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 24988

‎Funston, Frederick, Brigadier-General, U S Army‎

‎How The Army Worked To Save San Francisco: Personal Narrative Of The Acute And Active Commanding Officer Of The Troops At The Presidio in The Cosmopolitan Complete Single Issue with Panorama View of Earthquake Ruins‎

‎NY: International Magazine Company 1906. Magazine. Good. Soft cover. 8vo. Entire issue Volume XLI No. 3 July 1906 in original wraps moderate general wear tape repair noted at spine front inner hinge separating contents clean and bright. Article is 11 pages printed in double columns illustrated with 13 photographs including a small portrait of the author and a large folding photo view sized 9 x 25-inches showing on one side The Downtown District Of San Francisco from Telegraph Hill to Tar Flat with various building identified by Charles Weidner 1905 and on the other side a Panorama of San Francisco Ruins from Second to Eighth Streets with the remains of buildings identified from a photograph taken for the Cosmopolitan from a captive balloon stationed above Folsom Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets; insignificant discrete archival repair noted at one fold of the photograph. From the publisher's preface "How lucky it was for San Francisco that Gen. Frederick Funston threw himself and his men so boldly into the breach when the fire-fighters were waging their unequal combat with the flames caused by the great earthquake of April 18 has been remarked on every hand. The newspapers and weekly periodicals have covered the ground of the great catastrophe so far as general description goes but the Cosmopolitan has been singularly fortunate in securing from General Funston the following original and spirited account of how he summoned his men from the Presidio how they dashed down to the scene of the conflagration to help the firemen to patrol the city to save lives to care for the wounded and to feed the hungry and of their subsequent deeds." Very scarce complete issue including the panorama view which is most often lacking. International Magazine Company Paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 024985

‎US Army Intelligence on Soviet Army U S‎

‎Cold War Era Archive of U.S. Army Intelligence Manuals on Soviet Army 1970s-80s‎

‎1974. Cold War U.S. Defense Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces missile technology and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact weapons systems and to interpret Soviet organizational doctrine at a time when NATO planners were assessing conventional force balances and missile developments across Europe.<br /> <br /> Archive of 5 manuals from the 1970s-80s. Ranging from the immediate post-Vietnam period through the Reagan-era reintensification of U.S.-Soviet strategic competition these manuals document how American military institutions trained analysts intelligence officers and commanders to identify classify and counter Soviet equipment from tanks and artillery to missiles and aircraft using standardized imagery technical profiles and organizational analysis. Collectively the materials illustrate the evolution of U.S. threat perception as it moved from broad equipment identification toward increasingly specialized assessments of missile systems and advanced weapons platforms. Archive includes:<br /> 1 U.S. Army Missile Command. Technical Report RD-SS-86-10. Redstone Arsenal Alabama: U.S. Army Missile Command September 1986. Produced at Redstone Arsenal during the late Cold War missile buildup this technical report represents a shift toward highly specialized analysis of weapons and rocketry. This book demonstrates rigorous mathematical treatment of Rhode's theory of monopulse radar a foundational signal-processing method that enabled precise real-time tracking and guidance of missiles and aircraft during the Cold War.<br /> <br /> 2 U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School. Communist Weapons and Equipment Handbook. Fort Huachuca Arizona: USAICS January 1976. This handbook SupR 66152 explicitly marked as superseding earlier editions from 1971 and 1972 reflects the institutional updating of intelligence curricula in response to changing Communist bloc arsenals. Intended for classroom and field use it consolidates identification criteria hazards to identification and dichotomous keys revealing how U.S. intelligence sought to systematize recognition of Warsaw Pact weaponry during a period of détente.<br /> <br /> 3 Department of the Army Combined Arms Combat Developments Activity CACDA. Organization and Equipment of the Soviet Army. Fort Leavenworth Kansas: Headquarters Department of the Army 31 July 1978. Issued as Handbook HB 550-2 and distributed under special controls this striking red-covered manual analyzes Soviet ground force organization and equipment at a moment when NATO planners were reassessing conventional force balances in Europe. The text stresses its role in simulations and training exercises linking Soviet organizational structure directly to anticipated battlefield employment.<br /> <br /> 4 Department of the Army Soviet Artillery Doctrine. RB 30-3. Fort Leavenworth Kansas May 1976. This handbook corrects and updates specific technical and identification details within Organization and Equipment of the Soviet Army highlighting the dynamic nature of Cold War intelligence production and the continual need to revise assessments as new information about Soviet systems emerged.<br /> <br /> 5 U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School. Soviet Equipment. Fort Huachuca Arizona: USAICS March 1974. Issued as Supplemental Reading SupR 62810 this manual was designed as a study aid for intelligence students learning to identify Soviet equipment through imagery. The preface emphasizes mastery of visual recognition skills prior to classroom instruction with appendices organized by equipment type; tactical vehicles tanks artillery rocket launchers antiaircraft systems aircraft and electronic equipment; underscoring the centrality of imagery intelligence IMINT during the Cold War.<br /> Each manual shows light to moderate handling wear consistent with training and professional use including staple binding punched holes for binders minor edge wear toning and occasional marks; all text remains legible and intact. Overall very good condition. Together this archive offers a revealing primary-source record of how the U.S. Army studied taught and revised its understanding of Soviet equipment and missile capabilities across three decisive Cold War decades making it particularly relevant for collections focused on military intelligence history missile development and U.S.-Soviet strategic rivalry. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 22959

‎Black US Army Servicemen Archive U S‎

‎Black U.S. Army Servicemen Partially Identified Photo Archive Documenting Black Service in Segregated Units World War II‎

‎1942. African American Military Archive of 16 original vernacular photographs depicting African American servicemen in the U.S. armed forces from World War II through the Korean War including studio portraits candid camp scenes and informal snapshots several with manuscript captions and identifications en versos. The group documents Black military life under segregation. Identified individuals include "Sgt. Darnell Givens U.S. Army / Indiaana" and "Pvt. Solomon Johnson . Co A 276 QM Bn Camp Stoneman / Pittsburg Calif / To Judy Johnson" situating part of the archive within Quartermaster Corps service-one of the primary branches in which Black soldiers were assigned. A group portrait captioned "The P.O. staff" here understood to denote "Petty Officer staff" suggests a naval or naval-adjacent administrative unit broadening the archive's scope beyond a single branch and reflecting the varied roles Black servicemen occupied across the armed forces. The images collectively support research into African American military participation and the lived experience of Black servicemen prior to and during early desegregation efforts following 1948.<br /> <br /> Arphive of 16 silver gelatin photographs various sizes ranging approximately from snapshot to larger studio formats depicting individual and group portraits and informal camp scenes. Several images show soldiers in uniform posed in studio settings with painted backdrops while others document outdoor environments including barracks areas wooded camps and roadside settings with military vehicles. A group photograph titled in manuscript "The P.O. staff" shows a cohort of Black soldiers gathered outside a building indicating a group of petty officers in a Black unit. Additional images depict a soldier operating a typewriter at a field desk dated "1940" men gathered around cooking equipment and a civilian scene with a woman posed beside a uniformed serviceman and automobile suggesting furlough or home-front interaction. One portrait captioned en recto "To Betty With Love / "Korea" 53-54" and en verso "With Lots of Love Always / Joe" and another with an extended caption reading in part "I am sending you this to let you see how they turn out" give insight in soldier's personal lives while abroad.<br /> <br /> The archive documents African American servicemen during a period when the U.S. military remained institutionally segregated with Black soldiers frequently assigned to support roles such as logistics transport and supply as reflected in the Quartermaster identification. The presence of named individuals and unit references provides a basis for further archival and genealogical research while the combination of formal portraits and candid scenes offers insight into self-representation camaraderie and everyday military life. Emphasis on leisure portraiture and technical work such as typing and communications underscores the range of responsibilities and identities within segregated service structures. Moderate edge wear creasing emulsion loss and staining visible across several photographs with some images exhibiting significant surface damage; overall condition good. A cohesive and research-relevant visual record of Black military life spanning World War II through the early Cold War period. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23108

‎Department of the Army‎

‎The Soldier's Guide: June 1952‎

‎Washington D.C: United States Government Printing Office 1952. 12mo. 240 pp. Paper/soft covers. Good quality has notes in pencil on front cover and W1745 stamped twice on cover. Back cover bent some paged dog eared. Inside of back cover also has some notes in pencil.Department of the Army Field Manuel FM 21-13 Washington, D.C: United States Government Printing Office, 1952 paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 77-0373

‎US Army Interrogation and Counterintelligence U S‎

‎U.S. Army Interrogation and Counterintelligence Doctrine Archive Vietnam and Cold War 1972-1989‎

‎1972. US Army manuals on counterintelligence interrogation and combat. FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations FM 30-15 Intelligence Interrogation FM 30-5 Combat Intelligence and the Fort Huachuca subcourse Counterintelligence Investigations trace the Army's printed intelligence doctrine from January 1972 to June 1989. The sequence begins after the Army established Military Intelligence as a distinct professional branch in 1962 and after the Military Intelligence Corps relocated its school to Fort Huachuca in 1971. By 1989 the printed curriculum had shifted from broad field doctrine toward formal professional instruction for Counterintelligence Special Agents at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School. FM 30-17 indexes topics including "Rights" "Witness" "Wiretapping" and the "U.S. Army Security Agency"; FM 30-15 appends the 1949 Geneva Conventions and states that coercion is neither acceptable nor effective.<br /> <br /> 1972-1989 Washington D.C. and Fort Huachuca Arizona. Archive of 4 military intelligence training publications: three Headquarters Department of the Army field manuals and one Army Intelligence Center and School correspondence-course subcourse all in original printed wrappers and stapled or punched for binder storage.<br /> 1 United States Department of the Army. FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations. Washington D.C.: Headquarters Department of the Army January 1972. Issued under the printed authority of General W. C. Westmoreland and Adjutant General Verne L. Bowers the manual sets out the Army's investigative framework for sworn statements interrogations surveillance audio surveillance surreptitious entry false documentation secret writing and polygraph procedure.<br /> 2 United States Department of the Army. FM 30-15 Intelligence Interrogation. Washington D.C.: Headquarters Department of the Army June 1973. Sets forth doctrine for Army intelligence interrogations of non-U.S. personnel prohibits physical or mental torture coercion and threats and reproduces the 1949 Geneva Conventions in Appendix E.<br /> 3 United States Department of the Army. FM 30-5 Combat Intelligence. Washington D.C.: Headquarters Department of the Army October 1973. Issued the year of final U.S. combat withdrawal from Vietnam the manual expands combat intelligence into "cold war" "limited war" "general war" and "stability operations" with sections on civilian sources insurgent intelligence collection rear-area sabotage and terrorist threats and counterintelligence planning.<br /> 4 United States Army Intelligence Center and School. Counterintelligence Investigations. Subcourse IT 0735 Edition 9. Fort Huachuca Arizona: Army Institute for Professional Development Army Correspondence Course Program June 1989. A six-credit-hour professional course for the Counterintelligence Special Agent covering doctrine for initiating CI cases procedures for selected CI investigations and techniques for handling physical evidence.<br /> The group follows the Army's post-1962 effort to professionalize intelligence as a branch and concentrate its training system at Fort Huachuca after the 1971 move from Fort Holabird. FM 30-15 1973 is the Army's printed official position that torture and coercion are prohibited with the Geneva Conventions reproduced in full. That manual was the governing interrogation doctrine on paper through the early 2000s. It's the document that the post-9/11 interrogation debates the 2002 OLC memos and Abu Ghraib were measured against. Owning the actual printed doctrinal manual that says "coercion is neither acceptable nor effective" is the headline. One booklet is missing its rear cover and one volume contains annotations throughout. Overall good condition. The 1972 and 1973 manuals set out combat collection interrogation surveillance evidence and counterintelligence support in cold war and stability operations; the 1989 Huachuca subcourse narrows that material into school-based instruction for case initiation and judicial-type investigations. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23244

‎US Army Air Force U S‎

‎Army Air Forces Floyd J. Good B-25 Pilot Training at Columbia Army Air Base: Flight Records and Base Photographs with Cockpit Checklist 66 Item Archive 1943 to 1945‎

‎1942. Army Air Forces B-25 pilot training at Columbia Army Air Base is documented through 2nd Lt. Floyd J. Good's flight records B-25 questionnaire training papers base photographs and an associated TB-25 cockpit checklist marked "Horg L. M. / 45-B / C-1." Good's file places him in the 376th Squadron 309th Bombardment Group with records tracking day and night flying first pilot time instructor time combat crew entries and related duty. One later flight sheet notes that Good was "killed in accidental explosion July 1944" while the Horg checklist dated January 26 1945 carries working cockpit procedures for takeoff single-engine drills supercharger use landing and shutdown.<br /> 1943 to 1945 chiefly Columbia Army Air Base Columbia South Carolina. Mixed archive of 66 items including 17 Individual Flight Record sheets 29 black-and-white photographs Good's Pilot's Information File and related training status medical and administrative papers a multi-page "B-25 Questionnaire" with handwritten answers and one folding "TB-25 CHECK LIST" with printed procedures and pencil notes. Good's flight records and training papers 1943 to 1944. Seventeen Individual Flight Record sheets and related forms record Good's progress through B-25 training including aircraft type flight hours instructor time medical classification and duty status. The B-25 questionnaire includes handwritten answers on hydraulic pressure emergency brakes landing gear flaps bomb bay doors and cockpit procedure.<br /> Columbia Army Air Base photographs circa 1943 to 1944. Twenty nine photographs record classroom instruction before a chalked airfield diagram formation drill band and flag ceremony barracks leisure barbering reading room interiors B-25 activity on the field and aircrew posed in flight gear before aircraft. Several versos carry crop measurements or layout marks.<br /> Also includes a wartime B-25 flight checklist dated January 26 1945 documenting cockpit procedure while B-25s were still in active combat service rather than training. Horg L. M. "TB-25 CHECK LIST." Folding cockpit checklist marked "HORG" and "Horg L. M. / 45-B / C-1" with sections for pre-inspection starting engines taxi single-engine stopping and starting drills before takeoff climb landing and stopping procedure. Its pencil reminders including "BOOSTERS ON / WHEELS DOWN" "LEARN" and "150 FLAPS" show use as a working pilot's reference at the height of the final wartime training cycle when Army Air Forces pilots were still being prepared for medium-bomber operations for 7 months before Japan's surrender. This gives the archive a direct war-date cockpit component connecting Good's stateside B-25 training file to the procedural discipline required of pilots flying an aircraft still central to Allied tactical bombing anti-shipping and ground-support missions.<br /> Columbia Army Air Base trained medium bomber pilots for an aircraft used in tactical bombing anti-shipping strikes airfield attacks and ground-support missions across the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Good's file records the institutional threshold for that work through flight time medical status instructor approval and technical examination while Horg's checklist records the cockpit habits expected of a pilot moving toward operational flying: single-engine control at 140 m.p.h. supercharger use above 11000 feet booster pump commands landing-gear timing and radio calls. The archive connects the classroom personnel office flight line and cockpit preserving the chain between stateside instruction and the emergency procedures required of Army Air Forces B-25 pilots. Documents and checklist with toning filing holes creasing soiling and handling wear; photographs with light fading silvering and occasional surface abrasions. Overall good condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23362

‎Dept, United States Army Ordnance,‎

‎Description and Rules For the Management Of the U S Magazine Rifle Model Of 1898 and Magazine Carbine Model Of 1899 Caliber 30‎

‎new. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 45461785-n ISBN : 1016161506 9781016161503

‎US Army Airforce Pilot Training‎

‎Wartime Pilot Training US Army Airforce Large Format Photograph Archive Documenting the First Effective Flight Simulator Training Device circa 1942 to 1945‎

‎1942. World War II U.S. Army Air Forces Link Trainer training photo archive of five large format silver gelatin prints circa 1942 to 1945 documenting simulator instruction during the wartime expansion of American military flight training using the first effective training device. The men wear Army Air Forces uniforms aviation badges officer caps and the winged star shoulder sleeve insignia commonly called the Hap Arnold emblem an insignia approved in 1942 for AAF personnel. The photographs place the pilot inside a ground based cockpit trainer while instructors and fellow cadets observe a visual record of how instrument procedure radio communication and cockpit discipline were taught before airborne practice. Invented by Edwin Albert Link in 1929 the Link Trainer was the world's first widely successful and effective mechanical flight simulator. Affectionately dubbed the "Blue Box" it revolutionized aviation by allowing pilots to safely train for blind instrument-only flying and poor weather conditions without leaving the ground.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 5 silver gelatin photographs 8 x 10 inches United States circa 1942 to 1945. The photographs show Army Air Forces cadets and officers in a training room with a large cockpit simulator built with stub wings a tail round U.S. star insignia hinged canopy panels external bracing and a cockpit just large enough for one seated trainee. Several images show a trainee wearing headphones and working inside the enclosed trainer; another shows a man raising the canopy while holding a hand microphone; another shows three uniformed men observing a cadet seated at the controls. One image shows a pilot being congratulated or greeted at the simulator door by three officers with a placard on the fuselage reading "International flight." Visible uniform details include the AAF shoulder patch on a cadet's sleeve pilot or aircrew wings over shirt pockets aviation branch collar devices and officer cap insignia linking the group to the Army Air Forces rather than the postwar U.S. Air Force.<br /> <br /> The Link Trainer became one of the defining instruments of World War II flight instruction because it moved dangerous lessons in blind flying night navigation instrument reading and radio procedure into a controlled classroom setting. The U.S. Army Air Corps had adopted the device before the war and wartime mobilization turned simulator instruction into a standard component of pilot preparation as the Army Air Forces trained pilots at unprecedented scale for bomber fighter transport and liaison service. These photographs are strongest where they show the training process itself: the student isolated inside the cockpit the instructor watching from outside the headset and microphone linking simulated flight to communication procedure and the fuselage marked for an "International flight" exercise. Light curling and occasional creasing; some handling marks in the margins. Overall good condition. A focused visual record of World War II Army Air Forces simulator training and the classroom machinery that converted cadets into wartime pilots. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23538