Editore: The Naval & Military Press in association with The Imperial War Museum (facsimile reprint).
Da: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
EUR 9,51
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Aggiungi al carrello*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, 102pp, b&w photos, diagrams and cutaways. Light wear to card edges, previous owner's name top right of title page; a very good copy. ''MI 10'', or ''Military Intelligence, section 10,'' was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, part of the War Office. It was responsible for weapons and technical analysis during and after World War II Written at the dawn of the space age and of the Cold War this manual - originally for the use of a restricted circle of intelligence officers - gives a guide to the state of guided missile science at the time. It is inevitably largely based on German sources since the rocket science presided over by Wernher von Braun was by far the most advanced in the world at the end of the war. This bilingual English and Russian guide shows photographs of many German rockets - including the V1 flying bomb and the V2 stratospheric rocket bomb.
Editore: 173d Organized Reserve Military Intelligence Group, Office of the Unit Instructor, SS-3 Section, New York, 1949
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Other. Condizione: Good. Rare--very few of these training problem sheets have survived. Single 8 inch by 10.5 inch mimeographed sheet, with text on one side only. This has been folded in half and half again resulting in an approximately 5.25 by 4 inch object when fully folded. This sheet has been fully opened and placed in a clear plastic protective sleeve. On 24 June 1921, the unit was reconstituted as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC), 173rd Infantry Brigade, and was assigned to the Organized Reserve Corps and the 87th Division. It was reorganized in December 1921, redesignated on 23 March 1925 as the HHC 173rd Brigade, and redesignated as HHC 173rd Infantry Brigade on 24 August 1936. During World War II, the HHC 173rd Infantry Brigade was designated as the 87th Reconnaissance Troop in February 1942 and activated on 15 December 1942. Though the brigade in name did not exist during the war, the redesignation meant that it carried the lineage of the 87th Reconnaissance Troop, and when the brigade was reactivated, it would include the troop's lineage and campaign streamers. The troop entered combat in 1944 and fought in three European campaigns; central Europe, the Rhineland and Ardennes-Alsace operations. After the war, the troop reverted to reserve status and was posted at Birmingham, Alabama from 1947 until 1951. On 1 December 1951, the troop was inactivated and released from its assignment to the 87th Infantry Division. This is dated April 14, 1949. It references FIELD ORDER No. 11. It provides information on Enemy Forces, Friendly Forces, and Mission before ending with the statement of the PROBLEM. The Map reference s 1:20,000 West Point and Vicinity. Reference is made to Field Orders No. 1 - 7 for the disposition of enemy forces. The issue is that the Aggressor forces control the Bear Mountain Bridge and have it prepared for demolition. It controls a key crossing of the Hudson River. Friendly Forces are en route from Buffalo and Albany and require the bridge intact to enable a further advance toward New York City and Bridgeport, Connecticut. The defenses available to the Aggressor forces are detailed. The students are directed to "Prepare a plan for the seizure and holding of Bear Mountain Bridge to forestall and prevent its destruction by Aggressor." Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.