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SPENCER, GEORGE E--US ARMY PHOTOGRAPHER U SBiblio.com

ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF "SITTING BULL'S LOG CABIN MORNING OF THE FIGHT"

1893réf. 53398Chicago: World's Columbian Exposition 1893. 1893. First edition. Original Photograph of Sitting Bull's log cabin where Sitting Bull was shot and killed December 15 1890. Cabinet Card. Image: 5.5"x3.875". Mount: 6.5"x4.25". Photograph shows Sitting Bull's log cabin with 6 men and three horses in front of or beside the cabin. All are dressed in coats with one man holding a rifle and another holding a pistol. All appear to be white men and likely soldiers or officers at Standing Rock Agency Fort Randall or Fort Yates. Printed across the blank top edge of the mount is the following: Sitting Bull's Log Cabin now on Exhibition at World's Fair Chicago 1893 owned by Sitting Bull Log Cabin Co. Mandan North Dakota." Across the bottom blank edge of mount is "Geo. E. Spencer U.S. Army Photo. Sitting Bull's Log Cabin Morning of the Fight. 7520 Ellis Ave. Chicago." Verso has scuffing to five 1" spots from past attachment and previous owner's name and address. Printed along top edge is "World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893. At bottom edge is printed "Agricultural Building." The Indian Agent for Standing Rock was James McLaughlin. With fears of Sitting Bull's intentions to join the rapidly growing Ghost Dance Craze McLaughlin ordered the Indian Police to go to Sitting Bull's cabin at dawn of December 15 1890 arrest him and return him to the agency. Following those orders 39 Indian Police surrounded Sitting Bull's cabin at dawn with the 3 officers knocking on the door before entering the cabin. They awoke Sitting Bull and informed him of their plans for his arrest and taking him to the agency. Eventually taking him outside in the interim many of Sitting Bull's supporters gathered to defend him. As the police attempted to force Sitting Bull to mount a horse a supporter shot the head officer Lt. Bull Head who in turn shot Sitting Bull in the side of the chest. As gunfire broke out 2nd Sgt. Red Tomahawk shot Sitting Bull in the back of the head. Within minutes Sitting Bull's supporters had killed or mortally wounded 6 of the police including 2 of the 3 officers. The Indian Police had killed Sitting Bull and 7 of his supporters. The police moved to the corral area for defense and awaited the arrival of the Army forces in order to safely return to the agency. As noted on the cabinet card Sitting Bull's cabin was disassembled and then moved to the World's Fair Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. Image is clean and clear in near fine condition. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. unknown

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United States, Department of the Army, HeadquartersBiblio.com

Nuclear Play Calculator Aggressor; Department of the Army Field Manual FM 105-6-3

1964réf. 83035Washington DC: Department of the Army Headquarters 1964. Presumed First Edition First printing. Disbound three hole punched held together with a binder clip. Some of the punch holes are torn. Fair. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. Approximately 50 pages plus many tabs. Rare surviving original copy. Table of Contents includes: Introduction including Instructions for the use of the nuclear play calculator Strike Assessment Procedures including sections for cannons free rockets missiles air delivered weapons atomic demolition munitions and partisan atomic demolition munitions and new Aggressor weapons; Damage Determination References and Nuclear Play Calculator Aids in envelope. The Aids are present. This manual includes 11 tables in Chapter 2 and 15 tables in Chapter 3. This manual provides guidance on procedures and techniques for evaluation the nuclear play of aggressor forces during tactical exercises. This manual provides the necessary aids for the Aggressor to determine the damage to United States and Allied forces from nuclear strikes. The weapons systems in this manual are based on material contained in the Handbook on Aggressor Military Forces FM 30-102. Chapter 2 contains the tables for Aggressor strike assessments from nuclear weapons. Chapter 3 contains the damage radii tables from the nuclear weapons employed by the aggressor forces. Large Strategic Weapons 20MT-100MT were not included. Source date were extracted from FM 101-31-1. Aids envelop includes 8 plastic sheets of horizontal dispersion templates scaled 1:50000 and 1:25000 for cannons free rockets and Guided missiles and air delivered weapons and Damage circle templates for 1:50000 and 1:25000. Plastic sheets show wear and loss of text. The nuclear play calculator is a device for applying performance probabilities to nuclear delivery systems. The horizontal dispersion template is an aid used to determine the actual ground zero of a nuclear weapon. The damage circle template is an aid used in conjunction with the damage letters to evaluate the damage to personnel and equipment. The target element table describes target categories and the damage to be expected within each letter damage circle. The Damage circle radii tables are a series of tables showing the damage radii based on the height of burst and the weapon yield. Pagination is i; Chapter 1 1-1 to 1-3; Chapter 2 2-1 through 2-13 with tabs for Cannons Free Rockets Guided Missiles Air-Delivered Weapons and Atomic Demolition Munitions; Chapter 2 3-1 through 3-29 with tabs for 0.1 kt 0.5kt 1 kt 2 kt 5 kt10 kt 20 kt 50kt 100 kt 500 kt 1 mt 2 mt 5 mt Appendix is A-1 through A-2. Last page unpaginated is a distribution list. The envelop with the aids is affixed inside the back cover. Among the Aggressor weapons address were the 203-mm gun/howitzer 240-mm mortar 310-mm gun 400-mm mortar Nerono and Kolosso free rockets Tondro Fulmo Supro Sago and Aglo missiles Pafago Detruizo and Forviso air delivered weapons and atomic demolition munitions. This manual reflects the state-of-the-art the state of knowledge the state of training and the state-of-tactical nuclear weapons employment during the height of the cold war after the Cuban Missile Crisis and before the focus of the Army shifted to ground combat in Vietnam. Department of the Army, Headquarters unknown

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US Army Air Force U SBiblio.com

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

1942réf. 233621942. Army Air Forces B-25 pilot training at Columbia Army Air Base documented in the records of 2nd Lt. Floyd J. Good: flight records a B-25 questionnaire training papers base photographs and an associated TB-25 cockpit checklist marked "Horg L. M. / 45-B / C-1." Good served in the 376th Squadron 309th Bombardment Group and his records track 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." The Horg checklist dated January 26 1945 contains working cockpit procedures for takeoff single-engine drills supercharger use landing and shutdown. 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 date from 1943 to 1944. Seventeen Individual Flight Record sheets and related forms record his progress through B-25 training including aircraft type flight hours instructor time medical classification and duty status. The B-25 questionnaire contains handwritten answers concerning hydraulic pressure emergency brakes landing gear flaps bomb bay doors and cockpit procedure. Columbia Army Air Base photographs circa 1943 to 1944. Twenty-nine photographs include classroom instruction before a chalked airfield diagram formation drill a 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. The presence of a wartime B-25 flight checklist dated January 26 1945 records this period in which B-25s remained in active combat service. 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. Pencil reminders include "BOOSTERS ON / WHEELS DOWN" "LEARN" and "150 FLAPS." The checklist remained in use during the final wartime training cycle when Army Air Forces pilots were still being prepared for medium-bomber operations for seven months before Japan's surrender. Its dated procedures add a wartime cockpit component to Good's stateside B-25 training material including instructions for an aircraft then used in Allied tactical bombing anti-shipping and ground-support missions. Columbia Army Air Base trained medium-bomber pilots for B-25 operations that included tactical bombing anti-shipping strikes airfield attacks and ground-support missions across the Mediterranean and Pacific theaters. Good's records include flight time medical status instructor approval and technical examination requirements. Horg's checklist specifies cockpit procedures including single-engine control at 140 m.p.h. supercharger use above 11000 feet booster pump commands landing-gear timing and radio calls. The classroom photographs personnel and training papers flight records and cockpit checklist preserve distinct stages of B-25 pilot instruction from ground training and administrative qualification to flight-line work and emergency cockpit procedure. 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

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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

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US Army Fort Bliss; World War I U SBiblio.com

World War I U.S. Army Training at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas Photo Album ca. 1918

1918réf. 232501918. World War I Fort Bliss soldier training and camp life photo album from El Paso ca. 1918 recording the rapid wartime expansion of a border post into a large World War I training environment through tent rows drill formations truck convoys gas-mask instruction and group portraits of enlisted men in uniform. The album grounds that setting in specific internal evidence including the handwritten caption "Thanksgiving Ft. Bliss Texas 1918" beneath a group portrait the tent sign "Ambulance Company No. 10 / Men Wanted" and a large camp scene captioned "Ready for Business / W.H. Horse Co / El Paso Tex." Additional photographs follow soldiers through inspection lines recreational and theatrical moments camp interiors and exteriors and transport scenes giving the album a broad documentary range centered on military routine rather than formal ceremony alone. World War I era training album at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas. Circa 1917-1918. Photograph album containing 49 original black-and-white photographs mounted on black cardstock photographs ranging approximately from 2 x 3 inches to 3.5 x 5 inches. Images include extensive camp views including long rows of tents men standing in formation a soldier posed before camp quarters and a large gathering identified in manuscript as "Ready for Business." One image shows a woman in military-style uniform saluting the camera possibly a YWCA servicewoman. A substantial section documents motor transport and field organization through ambulance and truck lines crowded vehicle scenes and the recruiting sign for Ambulance Company No. 10 but these sit within a wider record of ordinary post life that includes mess and tent arrangements wooded camp settings dogs and mascots informal portraits a gas-mask training portrait stage performance views beneath an American flag rail lines and trestles mountain roads canyon routes and several personal portraits among them a woman in military dress and another street portrait with a uniformed soldier. The sequence suggests a soldier-assembled working album built from service experience at Fort Bliss and nearby western travel rather than a commercially produced souvenir. The album places Fort Bliss within the wartime transformation of the U.S. Army on the Mexican border and in the Southwest when posts such as El Paso functioned as training transport and staging environments for newly mobilized troops. Its strongest documentary value lies in the accumulation of ordinary but specific military details: tent architecture vehicle organization gas defense drill troop formations mess arrangements rail infrastructure and the handwritten Thanksgiving 1918 notation that fixes part of the sequence to the closing months of the war. Black paper album with spiral binding; photographs corner-mounted throughout; several prints with creases abrasions or edge losses but images in overall very good condition; album itself sound and complete. Overall very good condition. A photographic record of Fort Bliss that preserves how soldiers organized camp life training movement and leisure in El Paso during the World War I years. unknown

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US Army Fort Bliss; World War I U SABAA

World War I U.S. Army Training at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas Photo Album ca. 1918

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US Army Paratroopers; Postwar JapanBiblio.com

Cold War Military History 11th Airborne Division Arctic Angels Training and Occupation Duty in Postwar Japan 1947

1947réf. 196441947. 11th Airborne Division paratroopers photographed during the early American occupation of Japan document airborne training and daily military life within one of the most distinguished U.S. Army airborne units of the Second World War. More than two hundred photographs dating primarily from 1947 depict members of the 11th Airborne Division conducting parachute jump training weapons drills and daily base activities while stationed in Japan after the end of the Pacific War. The photographs appear to have been assembled by a soldier identified through accompanying material as Jeff C. Wall likely assigned to a military government team in Yamagata Prefecture. The images capture the division during the transitional period between wartime combat service in the Pacific and the emerging American military presence in East Asia that characterized the early Cold War. Archive contains 217 Silver Gelatin photographs ranging from approximately 2.25 x 2.5 inches to 4.75 x 6.5 inches depicting paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division in Japan. The archive includes twelve photographs documenting parachute jump training sequences from aircraft exit through descent and landing as well as several images of fully equipped paratroopers lined up before boarding troop carrier aircraft. Numerous photographs show soldiers around transport planes and other aircraft on base airfields. Additional images depict artillery and machine gun training exercises paratroopers assembled outside a command building displaying the slogan "Shape Up or Ship Out" and informal scenes of soldiers gathered around barracks or posing in groups. The photographs also record elements of base life including an enlisted men's club ticket associated with the Yamagata Military Government Team women service personnel including a nurse playing cards with soldiers and views of the surrounding Japanese landscape. Approximately fifteen photographs show Mount Fuji and nearby terrain around the camp in northern Japan. The 11th Airborne Division earned distinction during World War II through its combat operations in the Pacific theater particularly during the campaign for Luzon in the Philippines in 1945 where the division conducted airborne assaults and participated in the liberation of Manila. Units of the division also carried out a well known raid that freed Allied prisoners from the Los Baños internment camp. Following Japan's surrender in 1945 the division became part of the U.S. occupation force tasked with maintaining security and administrative control across parts of Japan. The 1947 photographs document airborne training and routine service during this occupation period when American military forces remained stationed throughout the country while the geopolitical tensions of the emerging Cold War began reshaping U.S. global military deployments. In later years the division was reassigned to Alaska where its airborne operations in Arctic environments led to the nickname "Arctic Angels." Minor handling wear typical of vernacular military photographs. Overall condition very good. unknown

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Cold War Military History 11th Airborne Division Arctic Angels Training and Occupation Duty in Postwar Japan 1947

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US Army U SBiblio.com

World War II Segregated Black Troops in U.S. Occupation of Japan and the Philippines Photograph Archive 1943-1946

1943réf. 215491943. Photo archive documents the experiences of African American and white soldiers during and after World War II with a particular focus on the postwar occupation of Japan and the Philippines. African American and white United States Army soldiers in occupied Japan and the Philippines appear throughout this World War II and immediate postwar photograph archive of 16 original photographs documenting the military presence established in Asia following Japan's surrender in 1945. United States occupation forces entered Japan under the authority of the Allied command led by Douglas MacArthur overseeing demilitarization economic stabilization and reconstruction of Japanese infrastructure. The photographs document American servicemen returning from deployment in the Pacific and participating in the early occupation environment including logistical operations military transport and everyday life among U.S. troops stationed abroad. Several images specifically depict African American soldiers providing visual evidence of Black military service during a transitional moment when the U.S. armed forces remained segregated yet were increasingly dependent on specialized technical personnel and logistical units supporting large occupation forces across Asia. Archive of 16 items consisting of 15 black and white silver gelatin photographs and one language manual documenting American military personnel in Japan the Philippines and the United States during and immediately after World War II. Photographs range in size from approximately 3.5 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches and include formal portraits group images of soldiers disembarking from a military transport ship in San Francisco after returning from Asia scenes of military activity in Japan and documentation of damaged wartime infrastructure. One portrait shows an African American soldier in full uniform wearing a shoulder patch for the Japan Logistical Command a unit responsible for supply distribution transportation networks and infrastructure support for American occupation forces in Japan. Another photograph depicts an African American soldier with technician rank insignia on his sleeve chevron indicating a specialized technical role within the Army's wartime ranking system. Informal photographs provide glimpses of daily life including a soldier seated in a rickshaw with an inscription on the reverse reading "This is what is used for a taxi over here it's called a RICKSHAW. The guy in the seat is sometimes called a sgt. when they can think of nothing worse Ha Ha." Another image captures soldiers gathered outside a military barracks while a photograph captioned "Shadow of C-54 falls upon Sons of the Rising Sun on arrival at Ie Shima 20 August 1945 enroute to Manila" records the arrival of a U.S. transport aircraft shortly after the end of the Pacific war. Japanese: A Guide to the Spoken Language. Washington: War Department 1943. Issued to American military personnel preparing for operations in the Pacific the manual reflects the practical linguistic training provided to soldiers expected to interact with Japanese civilians and local labor forces during military operations and the occupation period. The guide includes phonetic instruction and dialogues designed for rapid language acquisition. One instructional passage advises soldiers: "To learn to imitate the sounds of Japanese you should listen to the records at least six or seven times. The English will be given first followed by the Japanese. Then repeat the Japanese out loud and say it good and loud. Remember! Repeat every Japanese phrase right after you hear it." Illustrated dialogue exercises show soldiers asking for directions in Japanese while another voice interjects "Hey! Anybody here speak any English" The photographs and language manual together illustrate everyday realities of U.S. military life in Asia during the transition from wartime operations to occupation governance following Japan's surrender. Photographs exhibit minor edge wear and light creasing consistent with period handling. The language guide shows moderate handling wear with slight staining and creased pages but remains fully legible. Overall condition very good. unknown

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World War II Segregated Black Troops in U.S. Occupation of Japan and the Philippines Photograph Archive 1943-1946

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WWII; Tuskegee Airmen; US Army U SBiblio.com

African American Tuskegee Airmen Signatures and Photographs of Black U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel World War II Era

1941réf. 193561941. Partially identified Black Airmen photographs and Tuskegee Airmen signatures. African American airmen associated with the United States Army Air Forces during the World War II era document the struggle the struggle of entry into military aviation during a period when the armed forces remained racially segregated. This archive contains sixteen items including photographs of Black airmen in uniform and autographs of Tuskegee Airmen the pioneering African American pilots and support personnel trained beginning in 1941 after federal pressure forced the Army Air Corps to open limited aviation training opportunities to Black candidates. Five original photographs of African American airmen in Army Air Forces or early U.S. Air Force uniforms and nine signed note cards bearing the signatures of Tuskegee Airmen veterans. The archive also includes a contemporary pamphlet and photograph of a monument commemorating the Tuskegee Airmen. Signatures appear on white unlined cards measuring approximately 5 x 3 inches and include Claude Platt of the 301st Fighter Squadron and an Army primary flight instructor Charles A. Lane Jr. of the 99th Fighter Squadron Charles McGee of the 302nd Fighter Squadron Luther E. McIlwain Eldridge Williams of the 332nd Fighter Wing Leroy Bowman of the 301st Fighter Squadron Edward E. Tillman of the 477th Bombardment Group Utota Knox of the 302nd Fighter Squadron and Curtis C. Robinson of the 99th Fighter Squadron. The five photographs include two panoramic images measuring approximately 8 x 15 inches and 8 x 17.5 inches and three smaller photographs measuring roughly 3 x 5 inches. One panorama shows a large formation of troops assembled in ranks with a band and flag bearers present with African American personnel grouped separately from white soldiers and women within the formation. A second panorama shows approximately four dozen Black airmen marching in formation near a military installation. The smaller photographs depict African American airmen wearing service uniforms with airman caps and winged shoulder insignia; one image bears the inscription "To Mother - From Son in the service" while another real photo postcard shows a Black airman posing with a Black woman seated in a prop carriage behind a decorative mule annotated with "me" above the woman and the initials "T.B." above the man. The Tuskegee Airmen program began in 1941 when the U.S. Army Air Corps initiated training for African American pilots at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama following federal directives requiring the military to allow limited Black participation in aviation roles. Units such as the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group became the most visible African American flying units during World War II flying escort and combat missions in the European theater while operating within a segregated military structure. Their service challenged long standing claims that African Americans were unsuited for combat aviation and became a major milestone in the broader campaign for racial equality in the armed forces. The experience of these aviators and the public recognition of their accomplishments contributed to growing pressure for the desegregation of the military culminating in President Harry S. Truman's 1948 order ending official racial segregation in the armed forces. Five photographs ranging from approximately 3 x 5 inches to panoramic formats up to about 8 x 17.5 inches accompany nine signed note cards. One panoramic photograph shows slight water staining and a fold at the left corner; the remaining photographs and signatures remain well preserved. Overall condition very good. The material preserves visual documentation of African American participation in military aviation alongside signatures of several Tuskegee Airmen who served in fighter and bomber units during the war. unknown

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WWII; Tuskegee Airmen; US Army U SABAA

African American Tuskegee Airmen Signatures and Photographs of Black U.S. Army Air Forces Personnel World War II Era

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(HORNEY, Odus Creamer), Ordnance Department, US Army U SBiblio.com

Sammelband: Specifications for Smokeless Powders for Cannon 1898-1909

1909réf. 553425Washington D.C.: Ordnance Department U.S. Army 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. First editions. Small octavo. 18 volumes totaling approximately 230pp. 10 volumes contain a chart one fold-out and three contain fold-out graphs. Bound with wrappers into black clothcovered boards with spine gilt and page edges sprinkled red. Several volumes with ownership stamps or signatures or inked or stamped notes on the cover. A clean sammelband save for a large dampstain on the front endpapers causing light rippling on the first 30 pages or so and unobtrusive occasional staining at the very top of the gutter one fold-out graph with about ¼ missing and occasional small chips or tears on the wrappers; altogether very good. A bound series of Army-issued instructional pamphlets dating from 1898 to 1909 which were distributed to manufacturers of smokeless powders guncotton Ballistite Cordite etc. to instruct them on the specifications required by the U.S. Army. The pamphlets range in length anywhere from six to 30 pages. The earliest pamphlet stands out as it is comprised primarily of mimeographed pages from specifications written for three earlier contracts one from 1895 and two from 1897 and is the only volume in the collection constructed in this manner. We suspect that before these specifications were made more generalized in these frequently updated pamphlets they were written out contract by contract. Three of the pamphlets contain the owner signature of Odus Creamer Horney on the front wrapper. Horney was in charge of the building and launching of the Army's first smokeless powder factory starting in 1907 while in command of the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. The collection contains two titles that eventually combine into one. Specifications for Smokeless Powders for Cannon later titled Specifications Governing the Manufacture of Smokeless Powder for Cannon and Standard Methods of Chemical Tests of Nitrocellulose and of Smokeless Powder for Cannon eventually combine into Official Methods for Examination of Nitrocellulose and of Smokeless Powder for Cannon and Specifications Governing Manufacture of the Same for about a year before the title was changed to No. 405 Instructions to Bidders and Specifications Governing the Manufacture Test and Inspection of Nitrocellulose and of Smokeless Powder for Cannon. A complete list of each title and a brief description is available upon request. As a collection this chronicles the evolution of the criteria required by the US Army for the manufacture of smokeless powders when that technology was still quite new in terms of use. OCLC locates four individual pamphlets but we could not find a similar example of this expansive collection. Ordnance Department, U.S. Army hardcover

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(HORNEY, Odus Creamer), Ordnance Department, US Army U SABAA

Sammelband: Specifications for Smokeless Powders for Cannon 1898-1909

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Image captured by Major Geoffrey Keating, No 1 Army Film & Photographic UnitBiblio.com

MONTY IN THE WESTERN DESERT" - a 5 November 1942 Second World War image of then-General Bernard Law Montgomery in the turret of his Grant command tank at El Alamein originally captured by a member of the Army's Film & Photographic Unit and signed and dated by Montgomery on 22 May 1972

réf. 005854London: Copyright Camera Press Ltd. Photograph. This signed photograph shows then-Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery in the turret of his Grant command tank at El Alamein 5 November 1942. Imperial War Museum This image is signed and dated in two lines of blue ink at the upper left Montgomery of Alamein 22-5-72. First used in North Africa in 1942 Grant tanks earned the nickname Egypts last hope in the defensive victory at Alam Halfa Montgomerys first in command of the Eighth Army. The print measures 8 x 10 inches 20.3 x 25.4 cm. The verso bears the ink stamp copyright of Camera Press Ltd. of London. The original typed Camera Press caption is titled World Famous Soldier to Retire: MONTY IN THE WESTERN DESERT and reads This picture shows General Sir Bernard Montgomery as he was in 1942 watching the progress of the famous battle of El Alamein turning point in the struggle for North Africa. Note the black beret with its two badges. Camera Press parenthetically credits IWM at the end of the caption and IWM holds this image in its archives attributing the photograph to Major Geoffrey Keating of the No. 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit. Condition of the image is very good the image distinct and unfaded with trivial wear confined to extremities and minimal surface scratches visible only under raking light. This photograph is housed in a removable archival mylar sleeve within a rigid crimson cloth folder. Nearly two and a half millennia after Thucydides discussed the unpredictable role of chance in war Bernard Law Montgomery 1886-1976 and the Eighth Army found one another in North Africa. In July 1942 British troops checked Rommels forces in the First Battle of El Alamein but Allied momentum then stalled. Churchill flew to Cairo on 1 August to assess command replacing Middle East Commander-in-Chief Claude Auchinleck with General Harold Alexander and appointing General Gott to command the Eighth Army. However Gott was killed on 7 August flying back to Cairo. Churchill acceded to General Bernard Montgomery in Gotts stead. Montgomery seized command two days earlier than authorized by his C-in-C and began a historic transformation of a beaten body of men into the legendary Eighth Army that fought its way from Alamein to Tunisia between August 1942 and May 1943. ODNB North Africa and the Eighth Army proved the perfect milieu for Montgomerys messianic vitality and vanity. By May 1943 Rommel was beaten the Germans expelled from North Africa and Montgomerys C-in-C Harold Alexander sent Churchill the message: the Tunisian campaign is over We are masters of the North African shores. THoF p.780 Montgomery went on to command the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy and would later say with characteristic modesty It went from Alamein half way up Italy without losing a battle or even a serious action and without ever withdrawing a yard. Montgomery was recalled to England in December 1943 to become commander-in-chief of Allied ground forces during the D-day landings. After the war he rose to Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was elevated to Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Arrogant outspoken and politically inept Montgomery seldom missed either controversy or opportunity for self-promotion. During the war he was often criticized by Allied commanders for his caution and slowness to strike. Montgomerys uncharitable accusations in his postwar memoirs lost him the friendship of President Eisenhower and forced Montgomery to publicly apologize to a fellow Field Marshal whom - ironically - he accused of being too slow to fight. Montgomery earned further criticism for declaring support for Apartheid and praising communist Chinese leadership. Irrespective of his political and diplomatic limitations Monty remains iconic in his beret widely regarded as the outstanding British field commander of the twentieth century ODNB and the most readily recognized and widely lauded British military leader of the Second World War. Copyright Camera Press Ltd. unknown

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Schofield, John M, Lieutenant-General United States ArmyBiblio.com

Forty-Six Years in the Army

1897réf. 20240031Forty-Six Years in the Army by Lieutenant-General John M. Schofield. Published by The Century Co. New York 1897. Sm4to. xvi 577pps. Very good first edition book. Inscribed by the author on the FFEP. Narrow-ribbed brown cloth covered boards with blind-stamped borders around edges of front and back panels; gilt-stamped lettering and graphics on spine. Upper page edges are gilt. External lower edges are untrimmed side edges are rough trimmed. and both are age- and likely soil-darkened. Several scuffs on panels and spine diagonal scrape at upper right corner of back panel. Edges at head and tail of board spine have crimps and horizontal creases rubbed but not fraying. Fore-edge corner tips are scuffed very small rub-through on the lower right front tip. Back inside gutter has crack of 2 3/16". Gutter is cracked at pp. xii-xiii pp. 16-17 and pp. 288-289. Pencilled margin mark on page 13. Faint damp stains along the upper margin edges off and on through-out the book heaviest varies from approx. 1/8"-1/2" adjacent to the gutter by 2 1/2." The slightly duller areas of the upper edge photo is an indication of the pages impacted. Text pages are age-toned. Light intermittent foxing. Spine block is loose from the boards but held in place by the endpapers. Also includes a 4-page advertisement pamphlet. Photos are intended as part of the descriptions. Please use close-up options for best inspection. Additional photos available at your request. From: Kansas City Public Library Civil War on the Western Border: John M. Schofield served as the senior Union Army officer in Missouri during part of the war as both commander of the Army of the Frontier and the Department of Missouri. In 1864 he joined William T. Sherman's forces in Georgia and led one of the three federal armies in the Atlanta Campaign and subsequent "March to the Sea." Detached to protect the federal position in Tennessee he successfully fought John Bell Hood's remnants at the Battles of Franklin and Nashville. The Century Co. hardcover

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