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Manual Collection 3, WWII, 1941-1945

 Sub-Group

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection includes manuals, booklets, pamplets, and similar materials produced by DoD and related sources.

Dates

  • 1941-1945

Extent

From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet (This inventory is incomplete. It represents the manuals currently stored in climate-controlled archive space in standard bankers boxes. There is an additional room of manuals in cold storage that will be processed eventually.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

- AR 380-5: Military Security: Safeguarding Military Information 1949

- FM 23-36: Basic Filed Manual, Revolver, Colt, Caliber .45, M1917, and Revolver, Smith and Wesson, Caliber .45, M1917, 1941 October 20

- VFW booklet, Constitution and By-Laws, 1944

- VFW booklet, Ritual, 1942

- Technical Data: Plastic Baloons by General Mills, circa 1945

- Army Talks Booklets, 1942-1944

- Solar Ephemer's for 1944, 1943, 1988.314

- FM 30-40: Pictorial Manual on Armored Vehicles, 1943

- Heavy Tent Pitching manual 1942

- Hand to Hand Combat, Francois D'Eliscu, 1945

- University of Illinois Bulletin: Opinon and Comment, 1942 Febrary 24

- TM 10-411: Baking Manual for the Army Cook, 1943

- Suggested Service Munus, Kellog Company, 1941

- The Engineer School: Engineer Reconnaissance Reports 1945

- Military Order of the Purple Heart pamphlet, ca. 1942

- American World War Two Propaganda, ca. 1944

- Congratulatory Messages Received at the Conclusion of the Tunisian Campaign, 1943 May

- A Pocket Reference Guide: Army, Navy, Marine Corps Insignia, 1943

- Code Book, ca. 1944

- Armored Force: Armoraiders Pictorial Sketchbook, ca. 1942

- Carta D-Italia, (Map of Italy). 1941

- War Dept Education Manual: EM: Our Russian Ally, 1945

- War Dept Education Manual: EM42: Our Chinese Ally, 1944 August

- War Dept Education Manual: EM41: Our British Ally, 1944

- War Dept Education Manual: EM24: What Lieas Ahead for the Philippeans?, 1945

- War Dept Education Manual: EM945: Your Post-War Career, 1944 December

- Regimental Special Service Officer's Guide: US Army, 1942

- Going Back to Civilian Life, 1945

- Garasse Cote D'azur Station Climatique brochure

- Homeward Bound from Camp Kilmer, NJ, 1945

- The Infantry Journal: The Battle is the Pay Off, 1943

- The Infantry Journal: How to Use Your Eyes at Night, 1942

- Safety for Seamen

- Mission Accomplished: Africa, Sicily, Italy, 1945

- Guide for the Armed Force's IQ Test, 1943

- Instrument Flying: Basic, 1943 June 1

- The Most Common Short Comings in the Training of Battalion and Reimental Personnel, and Some Suggestions to Overcome These, 1943

- Pre-Induction Training Bulletin: Fundementals of Map Reading, 1944

- Conference Course Training Bulletin No. 2: Infantry Weapons, 1941

- Combat Lessons booklets, 1-6, 1944

- If you should be captured these are your rights. War Dept PAM 21-7, 1944

- How to hatch a Nest Egg. War Dept PAM 21-19, 1944

- Invisible Weapon, War Dept. PAM 20-13, 1944

- A History of World War II, St Paul Pioneer Dispatch/Press.

- Invisible Weapon, War Dept PAM 20-13. 1944

- How to Hatch a Nest Egg, War Dept PAM 21-19. 1944.

- If You SHould Be Captured These Are Your Rights. War Dept PAM 21-7. 1944.

- Combat Lessoons. 1944

- American Red Cross.

- American Legion booklets.

- Recognition Handbook: Exercise Adventure Express, 1997.

- NATO Handbook, 1985.

- Nurse brochures.

- Camouflage, TM 5-267 etc. 2014.35

- The Foxhole, This is Your Armor, It makes the indivisual soldier a potential fortress. Fort Belvoir VA 2014.35

- Fort Belvoir Engineer manuals. Notes on Tank Hunting; Employment of Antitank Mine Fields; Engineer Signal Communication; Note on Tank Defiles and Road Blocks; Engineer Reconnaissance Reports. 2014.35

- Unit pocket guides. Mostly US Army and Army Air Corps divisions: 28th Roll On; Famous Fourth The story of the 4th infantry division; Railsplitters (84th ID); Forward 80th; The story of the 36th Infantry Division; lightning, the story of the 78th ID; Tough Ombres! 90th ID; Bravest of the Brave, 95th ID; From D+1 to 105, 2nd ID; Speed is the Password, 12th Armored Div; The story of the Eleventh Armored Div, Thunderbolt; Battle babies, 99th ID; On The Way, 94th ID; Brest to Bastogne, 6th Armored Div; Tornado 8, 8th Armored Div; Forward 80th, 80th ID; 29 Let's Go, 29th ID; 101st Airborne Div; The 45th, 45th ID; The 75th, 75th ID; Engineering the Vistory, Corps of Engineers; Ever First!, 53rd Troop Carrier Wing; MP, Military Police; Rolling Ahead!, 89th ID; That Men Might Live!, story of the Medical Service- ETO; Fly Seek Destroy, story of the XIX TAC; ATC, Air Transport Command in Europe; Combat History of the 79th Inf Div East of Rhine April 20 1945; All American, 82nd Airborne Div; The Thirty Eighth Unites STates Infantry; Timberwolves, 104th ID; The 106th, 106th ID; Call me Spearhead, 3rd Armored Div; Invaders, story of the 50th Troop Carrier Wing; The WAC, Women's Auxiliary Corps; Flaming Bomb, story of Ordnacne on the ETO; The 9th, story of the 9th Armored Div; Time Over Targers, tory of the 9th Bombardment Div; Destination Berlin! The transportation corps will firnish the necessary transportation; Mission Accomplished, story of the XXIX TAC; The Story of the Century, 100th ID; Story of the 97th ID; Stalwart and Strong, 87th ID; Achtung Jabos! story of the IX TAC;

Repository Details

Part of the Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum Repository

Contact:
Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum
Camp Ripley
15000 Highway 115
Little Falls MN 56345 United States