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Discussion in 'Weapons & Technology in WWII' started by Ken The Kanuck, Jan 16, 2017.

  1. Ken The Kanuck

    Ken The Kanuck Member

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    I have found the website Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) very useful as well. They have tons of World War II Technical and Field Manuals in pdf format. It just takes some looking.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    And sometimes a totally imaginative style of selecting key words for the searches.
     
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    I'd also recommend the Combined Arms Research Library -

    Obsolete Military Manuals

    Click on the Field Manual link and it should pull up around 200 results. I think it has all the FMs published pertaining to the Infantry Regiment from 1941-45 and almost all the Armored Force manuals from 1942-45. I've not found a PDF version of FM 17-32 from November 1944, but do have a paper copy of the Nafziger reprint (anyone remember paper copies!).

    I must admit it's a heck of a lot easier to research US manuals than British ones, most US FMs are available as a download these days it seems. I'd like to find the reissues of FM101-10 myself, the June 1941 and a very post-war 1950s version are online but not the late 1943 issue.

    Gary
     
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    Mr Fisher's fine manual download selection.
    Not just MGs:

    Manuals
     
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