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75-mm howitzer materiel / prepared under direction of the Chief of Ordnance.
Date: 1941-06-21
Creator: United States. Army. Ordnance Dept.
Description: This is a World War II-era technical manual for the 75mm Howitzer. It contains information on use, maintenance, assembly, and other aspects of this weapon.
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Newsmap. Monday, June 22, 1942 : week of June 12 to June 19
Date: 1942-06-22
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front: Text describes action on various war fronts. Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Includes inset maps: Strategic distances in the North Pacific ; Attu Island ; the Rat Island group ; Jap drives [in China]. Photographs: Jungle fighting; Battle of Carriers; Planes that hit the enemy; Swimming through flames; Tomahawk takes it.
Back: "These are some of the weapons which checked Hitler's armies." Includes photographs: Moving in column to the attack -- Armored train alert -- Light armored cars -- Anti-aircraft alarm -- Ready to fire -- Formation to the front -- Anti-aircraft machine gun -- Woods used for cover -- Mortar ready to fire -- Amphibian tanks on land... -- Horse-drawn anti-tank gun -- ... and on the sea.
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Newsmap. Monday, June 15, 1942 : week of June 5 to June 12
Date: 1942-06-15
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Midway, China, India, Libya, RAF, Australia, Madagascar, East Indies, Russia; The second front: Allies, production.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Russian Front; Midway Islands; Battle of Libya.
Includes 15 photographs.
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Color illustration of a German Gruppe. Text and drawings detailing the organization, uniforms, insignia and weapons of the basic German army unit.
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Newsmap. Monday, June 8, 1942 : week of May 29 to June 5
Date: 1942-06-08
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Cologne and Essen flattened -- Tiny subs find Sydney ready -- the Japanese "save face" -- Army of 4 1/2 million for '42 -- Mexico welcomed into war -- Rommel's forces turned -- Hitler's hangman dies -- Poison gas used in China -- Armies shift in Russia.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Libyan battle, Dutch Harbor, Axis drives and British attacks at Libyan; Unalaska Is.; Unalaska Bay.
Includes photographs: Producing the big seacoast rifles; Red gound defense on the Russian front; Nazis' Focke-Wulf 190 fighter; Yanks saw a motor show put on by Aussies; 4-motored Stirling bombers used over Cologne.
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Enemy Tanks Are Vulnerable. Includes 10 photographs with descriptive text below each.
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Newsmap. Monday, June 1, 1942 : week of May 22 to May 29
Date: 1942-06-01
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Allied raids effective -- Stilwell in India -- Chinese repulse Japs -- Planes sink subs -- Against overconfidence -- Private buys $3,700 war bonds -- U.S. mission in Britain points to new fronts -- Labor will be 'frozen' -- Camacho asks for war -- 'Freeze' fish, razors -- New registration set -- Recruiting for WAAC -- Millions in war work -- Bombers to pop out like Model T's at Willow Run -- Kurdish revolt crushed -- Heavy action at Kharkov -- Himmler's aid wounded -- Axis drive in Libya -- RAF ruins Genoa.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show area occupied by Japanese troops near Chungking -- Nazi drives and Soviet attacks near Kharkov.
Includes photographs: Beaufort torpedo-bombers under mass production in Australia -- Sec. Hull -- Lt. Gen. Arnold -- Lt. Gen. Somervell -- Rear Adm. Towers -- WAAC officer's winter and summer uniforms and Auxiliary's winter uniform -- Flying B-24 -- Bren Gun carriers in action -- Long-barrelled Russian rifles -- British 25 pounder fires on the enemy in Libya -- Hurricane bomber -- Training for motor torpedo boat service.
Includes 1 cartoon.
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Jap Ground Forces. Includes photographs: On Guard, Support Fire, Surrender, Alley Fight, Loopholes, Barricade, Tanks Over Water, Aim, Mopping Up, Bridge on Land, Far North, Squad Rush, Mud Hole. Inset has text details for each photograph.
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Newsmap. Monday, April 19, 1943 : week of April 9 to April 16, 188th week of the war, 70th week of U.S. participation
Date: 1943-04-19
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Tunisia -- Southwest Pacific -- Russia -- Mediterranean.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Allied drive in Tunisia -- Japanese controlled areas throughout the Southwest Pacific.
Includes photographs: Helping Rommel's run [puppy stationed atop a Vickers machine gun] -- So he can fight (Staff Sergt. Hollers clerks at the San Angelo AAF Bombardier School in Texas) -- Blimp training.
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Tunisia, map with inset showing location of Tunisia in the Mediterranean area.
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Newsmap. Monday, April 12, 1943 : week of April 2 to April 9, 187th week of the war, 69th week of U.S. participation
Date: 1943-04-12
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Russia, Solomons, New Guinea, Aleutians, Bolivia, Tunisia, Air offensive.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Sicily and Tunis.
Includes photographs: Malaria control, Super block-buster [8,000 lb. aerial bomb], Change of ownership [captured Mercedes Benz troop-carrier], Bren-gun carriers support British Grenadiers in Kasserine Pass, Italian troops in the African war zone.
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The Marine Corps. A unified fighting force. Graphic image shows helmeted Marine soldiers with rifles attacking a tropical island with ships and transport boats in background, as well as various photos of parachutes, bombardments, etc.
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Newsmap. Monday, April 5, 1943 : week of March 26 to April 2, 186th week of the war, 68th week of U.S. participation
Date: 1943-04-05
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Tunisia, Russia, Southwest Pacific, Air offensive, Aleutians.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset map shows Tunisia.
Includes photographs: troops receiving daily news summaries, bombers in flight, M-10 tank destroyers, and a German Mark VI.
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British Aircraft. 19 aircraft are identified by sketch or photograph. Text provides description of each.
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Newsmap. Monday, May 25, 1942 : week of May 15 to May 22
Date: 1942-05-25
Creator: [United States]. Army Orientation Course
Description: Front :
Text describes action on various war fronts: Axis hunts Shangri La -- Shadow on Australia -- New threat to China -- Gandhi still passive -- More Yanks in Ireland -- U.S. gets Panama bases -- Spain would trade -- Island volcano erupts -- Axis people grumble -- Axis battles Chetniks -- Air travel curtailed -- Prinz Eugen torpedoes -- Attack on Kharkov -- Vichy downs RAF planes -- Africa drive hinted -- Malta counts bombings.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show the Burma Road and a map of a portion of Europe overlaying a map of the United States. U.S. cities are shown in italics, European cities in capitals.
Includes photographs: Doolittle did much -- North American B-25 -- Gandhi opposes [scorched earth policy] -- School of 'tin fish' ready for their deadly work -- Shell casings stacked in Moscow factory -- Rommel might move -- Catalinas from America keep an eye on the Mediterranean -- RAF salvages wrecked planes from desert.
Includes 1 cartoon.
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Know Your Enemies: the Nazi Army. Includes photographs: Supporting Fire, Howitzer in Action, Moving Up, Mountain Troops, Tank Destroyer, Anti-Aircraft Alert, No. 2 Man, Quick Crossing, Battle Practice, Flame Thrower, Mopping Up. Inset has text details for each photograph.
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Newsmap. Monday, March 29, 1943 : week of March 19 to March 26, 185th week of the war, 67th week of U.S. participation
Date: 1943-03-29
Creator: [United States.] Army Orientation Course
Description: Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Tunisia, Air offensive, Submarines, Southwest Pacific, Russia, China.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world.
Inset maps show Gulf of Gabes region, Moscow region.
Includes photographs: Counter attack at Kasserine, New Navy planes, Enemy hospital ship.
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Gas. 5 gases are illustrated and described; Lewisite, mustard, tear gas, phosgene and clorpicrin.
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