Description:
"This manual is designed as a text for the instruction of airship student pilots .... to give the knowledge of aerodynamics essential to the operation of [lighter than air aircraft]."(Page 2.)
Description:
Front:
Map shows 6 army areas in the U.S as of 11 June 1946.
"A troop information program map: 11 June 1946."
Back:
Graphic chart of the organization of the war department.
Date:
June 11, 1946
Creator:
[United States.] Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front: Text highlights the new blueprint for a united democracy in China including Military Agreement, Coalition Government, and Civil Reform.
Photographs: Prelude to unity: Gen. Marshall ... Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chiang -- New freedom for the common man -- "Cease fire" ordered in Chungking: Gen. Chou En-Lai and Gen. Chang Chun
Back: Text and illustrations show how the world has grown very small in terms of travel time since the invention of the steamship, the locomoti…
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Date:
February 11, 1946
Creator:
[United States.] Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front:
Text describes the first meeting of the United Nations Organization.
Maps:Proposed location of UNO corporate office -- Areas discussed at first Security Council meeting.
Includes photographs: 1. Where Security Council will meet -- 2. UNO Site Committee -- 3. Secretary-General Trygve Lie -- 4. President Paul-Henri Spaak. Also includes: United Nations Organization [list of member countries].
Back:
USAFI H.Q. Madison 3, Wisconsin, USA : for information--see your I and E officer ... Text d…
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Date:
March 11, 1946
Creator:
[United States.] Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Rabaul, Solomons, Pacific, Wake, New Guinea, Burma, North Africa, Russia, Aleutians.
Large world map is keyed to text and illustrates time zones around the world. Includes inset maps: Tunisia; USSR. Photographs: Japanese Bull's eye [a Nip carrier making a perfect circle trying to escape in the Battle of Midway]; "Kamerad" in Tunisia; Waiting for actions on a U.S. carrier; "General winter".
Back: "Learn to Recognize These Vehicles" poster g…
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Date:
January 11, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Navy announces victory -- End for Corregidor -- Rationing moves closer -- Japs push into China -- Marblehead limps in -- Stark for new fronts -- Iceland has its first air fight -- Army of 6,000,000 -- Launch four destroyers -- Anti-Axis move in Spain -- Army camps inspected -- Germans strike convoy -- Malta downs 154 planes -- Madagascar tip seized -- U.S. aids Middle East -- Nazi drive predicted -- RAF attacks roar on.
Large world map is keyed t…
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Date:
May 11, 1942
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Front:
Text describes action on various war fronts: Aegean Sea, Italy, Corsica, Russia, Norway, Southwest Pacific, Air offensive.
Maps show Greece and Turkey, Eastern front, Central Italy.
Includes photographs: Soldier killed by booby-trap, "Battleship X" is the USS South Dakota, Brenner Pass, Resting American soldiers following a battle in Munda.
Back:
Typical German infantry regiment. Illustration shows regiment. Text gives detailed description of Regimental Headquarters Company, Battalion…
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Date:
October 11, 1943
Creator:
[United States.] Army Orientation Course.
Description:
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts : Eastern front, Italy, Southwest Pacific, Central Pacific, Burma, China, North France, South France.
Maps show: Japanese and American controlled areas throughout the Mariana and Caroline Islands; military actions in Europe during the week; Japanese advancement into Burma and China; France.
Back: [text and ill.] Crew, 147,142 men and women [making/using war planes].
Date:
September 11, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front: Text describes action on various war fronts: Allied pressure increases, Cologne approaches attacked, Saar Valley threatened; Red Army strikes; Ravenna falls; Pacific Theatre active; Kweiyang evacuated; Japs retreat in Burma.
Maps: Soviet drive; Cologne Plain; Winter offensive; Japanese threat; Leyte. Inset map: Philippines.
Back: Photographs and llustrations highlight various infantry weapons: guns, rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars and other weapons.
Date:
December 11, 1944
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
Description:
Front:
Text describes action in portions of China, Japan, Okinawa and the Philippines. Keyed to map.
Map shows Allied and Japanese held areas as of 5 June 1945 in portions of China, French Indo-China, Korea, Thailand, Japan, and the Phillippine Islands.
Back:
Ribbons representing decorations and awards : wear them correctly!
Decorations and awards, and service ribbons are illustrated with detailed instructions and diagrams describing how to wear them correctly.
Date:
June 11, 1945
Creator:
[United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
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