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Field Artillery School training materials,

Collection of pamphlets issued (or a few issued by War Dept, and used) by various FAS departments including Motor Transport, Materiel, Communication, Tactics.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Field Artillery School (Fort Sill, Okla.)
Format: Kit
Language:English
Published: Fort Still, Oklahoma : Field Artillery School, 1943.
Subjects:
Military education > Oklahoma > Fort Sill.
Artillery drill and tactics > Study and teaching > United States.
Communications, Military > Study and teaching > United States.
Vehicles, Military > Maintenance and repair > Study and teaching > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Lesson plan: Military motor vehicles [7 pages]
  • Echelons of maintenance [7 pages]
  • Battery motor maintenance personnel and battalion motor officer [9 pages]
  • Driver selection and training [13 pages]
  • Vehicle operation [11 pages] x 2
  • Recognition of abuses [7 pages]
  • Air compression (portable) [11 pages]
  • March methods and technique [11 pages]
  • March reconnaissance and planning [11 pages]
  • Field expedients [27 pages]
  • March organization and execution [9 pages]
  • Forms, records and reports [7 pages]
  • Desert operation [11 pages]
  • Operations in snow and extreme cold [7 pages]
  • March orders, organization and method [11 pages]
  • Fire prevention and fire fighting [7 pages]
  • Destruction of ordnance materiel [5 pages]
  • Nomenclature, care, and use of mechanic's tool [5 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Road test, tires and storage battery [8 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Bearings, wheel and steering knuckle (trunnion); springs; shock absorbers; steering system [9 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Brakes, hydraulic, vacuum and parkiing [7 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Power transmission system [9 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Engines, operation, maintenance [ 9 pages]
  • Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Truck, 1/4 ton, 4x4, Ford or Willys, truck, 3/4 ton, 4x4, Dodge [11 pages]
  • Emergency roadside repairs [4 pages]
  • Maintenance of pneumatic tires and tubes [4 pages]
  • Motor transport inspections [5 pages]
  • The duties of motor personnel [8 pages]
  • Motor transportation [6 pages]
  • The command inspection of motor vehicles [13 pages]
  • Instructions of use of improved lubricants (War Dept. training circular no. 32) [6 pages]
  • Individual training. Motor vehicle operation and maintenance [45 pages]
  • Shop work sheet: #1. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Road test check sheet and storage battery [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • #2. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance. Bearings, wheel and steering knuckle; springs; shock absorbers; steering system [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • #3. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Brakes (hydraulic, vacuum and parking) [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • #4. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Power transmission system [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • #5. Battery (2d Echelon): Engine, operation and maintenance [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • Trouble shooting work sheet: #6. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Roadside engine trouble shooting (ignition and starting systems) [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • #7. Battery (2d Echelon) maintenance: Roadside engine trouble shooting (fuel system) [3 pages + 1 page solution]
  • 75-mm Howitzer M1 (pack) or 75-mm Howitzer MSA1 (field) - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Tube assembly; breech mechanism assembly [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 2. Top sleigh; bottom sleigh; recoil mechanism [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 3. Cradle; rocker; equilibrators; elevating and traversing mechanisms [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • no. 4. Axle; front and rear trails; wheels; spare parts; tools and accessories [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • 105-mm Howitzer M2 - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Barrel assembly; breech and firing mechanisms [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 2. Sleigh; cradle; recoil mechanism [2 pages + 4 pages solution]
  • no. 3. Equilibrator; top carriage; elevating and traversing mechanisms; axle; support
  • [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 4. Trails; wheels; brakes; shield; spare parts; tools and accessories [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • 155-mm Howitzer, M1917A4 or M1918A3 - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Breechblock; firing mechanisms; barrel assembly [2 pages + 4 pages solution]
  • no. 2. Sleigh; cradle; recoil mechanism [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • no. [3]. Elevating mechanism; axle; traversing mechanism; trail [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 4. Wheels; brakes; shields; tools and accessories [2 pages]
  • 4.5-inch gun M1 or 155-mm Howitzer M1 - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Barrel assembly; breech and firing mechanisms; counter-balance assembly [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • no. 2. Cradle; recoil mechanism [2 pages + 4 pages solution]
  • no. 3. Top carriage; bottom carriage; equilibrators; elevating mechanism; traversing mechanism; trails; spades [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • no. 4. Wheels; brakes; tools and accessories; lubrication [2 pages + 2 pages solution]
  • Browning machine gun, caliber .50, heavy barrel, flexible, M2 - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Description; removal of groups; mechanical functioning; replacing of groups; sights [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • no. 2. Removal and disassembly of groups; disassembly and assembly of parts and groups normally removed for repair only; maintenance; stoppages; ammunition; spare parts, tools and accessories [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • Carbine caliber .30, M1 - Practical work sheet: no. 1. Description; sights; removal of groups; functioning; replacing of groups [2 pages + 3 pages solution]
  • War Dept. Ordnance Field Service bulletins: no. 6-C-20, Lubrication instructions for carriage, Howitzer, pack, 75-mm, M1 [and] Howitzer, pack, 75-mm, M1 and M1A1 [4 pages]
  • no. 6-C-21. Lubrication instructions for carriage, Howitzer, 105-mm, M2 [and] Howitzer, 105-mm, M2A1 [6 pages]
  • no. 6-D-24. Lubrication instructions for gun, 155-mm, M1 [and] carriage, gun, 155-mm, M1 and M1A1 [7 pages]
  • no. 6-C-31. Lubrication instructions for carriage, Howitzer, 155-mm, M1917A4 [and] Howitzer, 155-mm, M1917 [4 pages]
  • Instructors outline of conference: Communication general [5 pages]
  • Signal operation instructions [5 pages]
  • The field message [4 pages]
  • Military cryptography [6 pages]
  • Prearranged mesage [3 pages]
  • Systems for encoding map coordinates [5 pages]
  • Air-ground liaison code [5 pages]
  • Messenger, visual, and sound communication [7 pages]
  • Air-ground liaison code [3 pages]
  • The EE-8-A telephone
  • [6 pages] Simplex circuits [5 pages]
  • Switchboard BD-71 (72) [11 pages]
  • Battery and battalion wire systems [and] Line route map, and the battalion in displacement [10 pages]
  • Field wire installation and maintenance [6 pages]
  • Radio general [6 pages]
  • Voice radio procedures [6 pages]
  • Characteristics of SCR-610 and installation and operation of RM-29 [5 pages]
  • Characteristics of SCR-608 and SCR-284 [4 pages]
  • Radio systems [6 pages]
  • Voice radio procedures [5 pages]
  • Transmission security and authentication [4 pages]
  • Field exercise: Characteristics of field wire, wire splices, ties, and construction of crossings [6 pages]
  • Wire laying equipment [and] Reduced distance wire net [5 pages]
  • To familiarize the sudents with the installation and operation of the radio sets issued to the field artillery [5 pages]
  • Operation of two-station radio nets [2 pages]
  • Operation of mutiple-station radio nets [2 pages]
  • Reduced distance radio nets [4 pages]
  • [FAS abbreviations list] [4 pages]
  • Field artillery battery, 105-mm Howitzer, truck-drawn (War Dept. table of organization no. 6-27) [2 pages]
  • Classification procedure [12 pages]
  • Organization of field artillery of the infantry division and employment of the field artillery battalion in reconnaissance, selection and occupation of position (Instruction memorandum) [77 pages]
  • Field artillery tactics general [16 pages]
  • Rifle company in attack [23 pages].