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Note: The manuals offered here are ORIGINAL, WW2, U.S. Government publications, NOT facsimiles or modern reprints, unless specifically and clearly mentioned in the item description. |
3UMM-31. FM 21-15 Individual Clothing and Equipment. War Department Field Manual, dated April 1945, 4-1/2-inch wide x 6-3/4-inch high format, paper covers, 88 pages with many photos, illustrations and text relative to the proper care of clothing and individual equipment. Some of the items covered are, care of clothing; leather; metal; horse leather equipment, covers and saddle blankets; web equipment; canvas; wood; tents; sleeping bags; mosquito bars; mess and other miscellaneous equipment. The manual also covers, in detail, the method of assembling and packing personal equipment, as well as proper display of equipment for formal inspection. The outside covers exhibit very moderate signs of age, as well as light to moderate soil from handling and storage and a mark, on the upper right corner, left over from an old price tag. The corners are lightly bumped and very lightly dog-eared; the front, and inside front cover is hand inked with the owners name, serial number, and unit; the back cover is inked with three words. The inside back flyleaf, which is blank, has a snort tear, (nothing serious). The interior pages are in Vg+ condition. A very useful manual for the reenacting hobby. Overall about Vg. $10.00 PHOTO SOLD |
3UMM-32. TM 11-33 Telephones EE-8-A & EE-8. War Department Technical Manual, dated Match 6, 1942 6-inch wide x 9-1/16-inch high format, 21 paper covers, 21 pages of illustrations, schematics and text relative to the EE-8-A & EE-8 field telephone sets. A highly detail monograph describing the purpose and characteristics of EE-8-A & EE-8 field telephone sets, including; installation; operation; care; repair; circuit elements; and parts list. The covers exhibit moderate overall signs age from of storage, with very light wear and lightly dog-eared corners; the front cover has some kind of spotting, (could be water spots), as well as a mark, on the upper right corner, left over from an old price tag. A very handy and useful manual if you ever intend to get a set of field telephone operational. Overall the exterior rates about Good; the interior pages are excellent. $9.00 PHOTO |
3UMM-33. TM 1-413 Aircraft Instruments. War Department Technical Manual, dated November 7, 1940, 5-3/4-inch wide x 9-inch high format, oil-cloth “like” covers, 184, pages of illustrations, photos, diagrams, text, as well as one fold-out page depicting over twenty-seven aircraft instruments; such as, fuel pressure gages; suction gages; manifold pressure gages; Weston engine synchronism indicator; fuel level gages; altimeters; bank and turn indicators; automatic pilot type A-2; aircraft compasses; cylinder temp gages, etc., etc., just to mention a few. The covers exhibit light signs age, as well as light to moderate soil from handling and use; the front cover bears the owners name and serial number, in ink; the front covers corners show signs of wear and are dog-eared. The interior pages exhibit moderate signs of age and use; most of the upper and lower corners of the pages are light to heavily bent and dog-eared; some minor ink annotations on a few pages; few of the first and last pages are heavily aged and yellowed; there is a soil spot on the page edges where one would use his thumb to “thumb” through the pages. Unfortunately, the description may tend to make the manual seem worse condition than it actually is. A wealth of technical information. Overall the manual exhibits moderate use; the exterior rates about Vg; the interior pages are about Vg-. $22.00 PHOTO |
3UMM-34. FM 6-80 Field Artillery Field Manual, Service of that Piece, 155 Howitzer M1918A1, Truck Drawn. US War Department Field Manual dated October 10, 1939. 4-1/2-inch wide x 7-3/8-inch high, paper covers; 55 pages with a few illustrations and text prescribing the duties to be performed in the service of the piece by the personnel assigned to one howitzer section of the firing battery. The covers exhibit light signs of age from handling, insignificant soil and very small tear on the bottom left corner; original owners name inked on upper right front and a different name is lightly penciled on the inside front cover. The interior pages are in excellent condition. Overall near excellent. $12.00 PHOTO |
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