WWII "Tactical and Technical Trends" Series

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"Tactical and Technical Trends" was published by the U.S. Military Intelligence Service in WWII from June 1942 to June 1945. Publication was initially biweekly, and later monthly. "Tactical and Technical Trends" covered much of the same material as the Intelligence Bulletin, although generally more in-depth. The same articles frequently appeared in both publications.

• #1: June 18, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Japanese Bombing Methods; Anti-Aircraft: Problems in British Anti-Aircraft Mountings; Anti-tank: Organization of Jap Anti-Tank Company, German Mine Fields in Libya; Artillery: Argentine Mountain Artillery Training, Liquid Air in German Shells; Chemical Warfare: Nerve Gas, New Type of German Vesicant Reported, Notes on German Chemical Warfare; Engineers: German Steel Invasion Barges, Notes on British Bridge Construction; Infantry: Organization and Training of British Commandos; Mechanized Vehicles: Sand Channels for Armored Cars, German Half-tracks Used as Tractors, Germans Experiment with Amphibious Carriers; Medical: Jaundice Among U.S. Troops; Ordnance: British, United States, Germany; Quartermaster: German Night Driving Equipment, Protective Clothing for German Armored Car Crews; Signal Corps: Jap Type P3A Radio Described, Description of Radio Needed in Iceland, Submarine Detection; Tanks: Operation of U.S. Tanks in Libya, Tank Requirements in Libyan Fighting, British Experiment with Tank Radio Control; SECTION II — The Effectiveness of the German 88 mm Anti-Aircraft Gun as an Anti-Tank Weapon in the Libyan Battle.

• #2: July 2, 1942

• #3: July 16, 1942

• #4: July 30, 1942

• #5: August 13, 1942 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: The New Mitsubishi-Nagoya Zero Fighter, French SE-200; Antiaircraft: Organization of German Antiaircraft Units, German Troop Train Protection Against Air Attack; Antitank: German Balanced Antitank Protection, Italian 20-mm Antitank Rifle (Solothurn); Chemical Warfare: German Eyeglasses for Use with Gas Mask, Treatment for Blister Gas; Engineers: French Light Antitank Mine, Sympathetic Detonation of German Tellermines, Italian Flame-Thrower, Earphone Booby Trap; Infantry: The German Light Division, German Parachutes; Mechanized Vehicles: Tanks of the Red Army, German Modification of French Char B Tanks; Medical: Stimulants for Members of the German Luftwaffe; Ordnance: Japanese Grenades, German Grenade Fired by Signal Pistol, 12-Kilogram German Antipersonnel Bomb; Quartermaster: Water Rations; Glossary: Names of Planes in Service with the British; Section II — The Siege of Sevastopol.

• #6: August 27, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Focke-Wulf FW-190, Heinkel HE-177 Long Range Bomber, German Use of Voltol, Performance of Newer Types of Japanese Aircraft; Antiaircraft: Air Attacks on Malta, Antiaircraft Searchlight Dazzle Tactics, Preparation of Antiaircraft Units for Theaters of Operations, Air-Burst Fire with Antiaircraft Guns Against Ground Targets; Antitank: Emplacement of Antitank Guns, British Antitank Guns in Burma; Artillery: Notes on German Divisional Artillery; Chemical Warfare: German Use of Smoke, New Types of German Incendiaries; Engineers: Enemy Antitank Mine Fields and Booby Traps in Africa, Mine Detector of the Red Army; Infantry: Japanese Tactics in the Philippines; Mechanized Vehicles: German Tanks for Use as Amphibians, Italian Tank Modifications; Medical: Notes on the Burma Campaign; Ordnance: Japanese Sixty-Kilogram High Explosive Bomb (Type 97), Italian Self-Propelled Gun-Howitzer 75/18; Signal Corps: German Signal Units; Glossary: Some of the More Important British Abbreviations; SECTION II — Finnish Tactics--Small Units.

• #7: September 10, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Antiaircraft: Employment of German Antiaircraft Artillery at Sevastopol; Antitank: Russian Employment of Antiaircraft Guns Against Tanks; New Guerlich-Principle German Antitank Gun; Artillery: Organization and Identification of German Artillery Units; German 75-mm Assault Gun; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Toxic Smoke Candles; Engineers: German Methods of Camouflage; Infantry: Japanese Tactics in Burma; Mechanized Vehicles: German Employment of Tanks, and Their Cooperation with Other Arms, Fuel Supply for Tanks, Gyroscopic Compasses in German Tanks, Tanks in Burma; Ordnance: German Ammunition Salvage, Use of Captured Italian Weapons, Italian 75-mm Field Gun--Models 06, 11, and 12; Quartermaster: Gasoline and Ammunition Supply--Libya, Japanese Rations; Signal Corps: Wire Communications Used by Germans in Occupied Countries; SECTION II — The German Crossing of the Dnieper in the Kremenchug Area (Kiev Operation).

• #8: September 24, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Lessons from Crete in Antiparachutist Tactics, Notes on Japanese Air Tactics, Cooperation Between German Reconnaissance Aviation and Ground Forces, New Tactics--Japanese Zero Planes; Antiaircraft: Employment of Antiaircraft Artillery with a German Panzer Division in Libya, Antiaircraft Defenses of Japanese Warships; Antitank: Remote Control Device for Antitank Guns, Penetration of German 88-mm Antitank Gun, Russian 76.2-mm Gun; Artillery: Notes on British Artillery in the Burma Campaign, German 150-mm Self-Propelled Gun, New German Bombthrower, Artillery with a German Tank Division; Cavalry: Cavalry Combat at Night; Chemical Warfare: German Army Form for Report on Enemy Use of Gas; Engineers: German Marking of Antitank Mine Fields; Infantry: Notes on Axis Parachute Troops, Japanese Machine Guns; Mechanized Vehicles: German Coaxial Sighting Telescope, Vulnerability of German Tank Armor; Glossary of German Words in Common Use; SECTION II — The German Air Attack on Crete.

• #9: October 8, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: German Sub-Stratosphere Planes, German Single-Seated Inflatable Dinghy; Antiaircraft: Small-Arms Fire against Low-Flying Aircraft, Antiaircraft Defenses of German Warships; Antitank: Notes on Russian Defense against German Tank Attacks; Artillery: Red Army Artillery Training, German 105-mm Howitzer; Chemical Warfare: Use of Flame-Thrower by Italians in Russia, German Chemical Warfare against Landing Operations, Japanese Chemical Warfare Organizations and Gases; Infantry: Notes on the Burma Campaign, Japanese Operational Principles: Mandalay Offensive, Japanese Parachute Forces; Mechanized Vehicles: Axis Use of French Mechanized Equipment, Changes in Uniform and Headgear of German Armed-Force Personnel, British Nicknames of Tanks, Investigation of Fumes in Armored Vehicles; Military Intelligence: Intelligence from German Prisoners of War; Ordnance: German Night-Driving Equipment, Standard German Weapons; Quartermaster: German Salvage Procedure in the Desert; SECTION II — Summary of Operations in North Africa: 1940-1942.

• #10: October 22, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: The German Airplane with an Umbrella, Transfer of German Air Personnel to Submarine Duty, German Devices for Assisting the Take-off of Overloaded Planes, German Gliders; Antiaircraft: German 105-mm Antiaircraft Gun, Antiaircraft Fire Control by Radiolocators; Artillery: New German Heavy Artillery; Engineers: Japanese Doctrine on Obstacles; Infantry: Japanese Defensive Tactics in the Solomons, Lessons in Attack, Breakthrough Against German Defenses; Mechanized Vehicles: Mark III Tank--Three Basic Designs; Military Intelligence: Japanese Prisoners of War; Ordnance: German Parachute Cartridge for Wind Measurement, New German Rocket Weapon, German Tank Maintenance and Recovery, Standard Japanese Weapons; Glossary: Changes in Place Names--North Caucasus; SECTION II — German Antitank Units and Tactics; SECTION III — Index: Tactical and Technical Trends, Issues 1-10 (Inclusive).

• #11: November 5, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Italian Circling Torpedo, Focke-Wulf 190 Compared with Spitfire IX and P-38F, Exploding Device for Jettisoning Bomb Carriers on Ju-88, German Fighter Tactics to Avoid Antiaircraft Fire; Antiaircraft: Antiaircraft Defense of Tobruk, German Antiaircraft Defense; Chemical Warfare: Employment of Smoke in Cooperation with Combat Troops, Mustard Gas and Incendiary Bombs; Infantry: Notes from a Second German Army Training Directive, Organization, Training, and Employment of German Parachutists, Further Notes on the Burma Campaign; Mechanized Vehicles: German Tank-Landing Craft, German Light-Armored OP Vehicle, Vulnerability of Tanks; Medical: The Use of Benzedrine and Methedrine in War, Foot Bandages for Marching; Military Intelligence: British General Staff, Arms and Services, German Instructions to Troops Who May be Taken Prisoner; Ordnance: German Metal Spike (Crowsfoot), Maintenance and Repair Service in German Armored Division, Standard Italian Weapons; SECTION II — A German Spearhead in the Kiev Operation.

• #12: November 19, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: German Aircraft Cannons, The German Rescue Buoy; Antiaircraft: Antiaircraft Defense of Motor Columns on the March, Japanese Antiaircraft Guns; Antitank: Italian 90-mm Multipurpose Gun, Soviet Antitank Defense, Armor Penetration of German Antitank Guns; Artillery: Additional Information on the German Schwere Wurfgerät 40, German 105-mm Gun, 305-mm Skoda Coast Defense Gun L/50, 210-mm German and Italian Howitzers, German Self-Propelled 150-mm Howitzer; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Incendiary Bombs, Nitrogen Mustard Gases; Engineers: Demolition Charge for 20-mm AA/AT Gun; Infantry: Winter Fighting in Russia, German Tactics in the Final Phases at Kharkov; Mechanized Vehicles: Crew and Communications of German Mark IV Tank, Security Measures of a German Armored Division; Military Intelligence: Some Enemy Practices Used in Interrogating Prisoners of War, Italian Measures for Concealing a Withdrawal; Ordnance: Operations of the German Tank Recovery Platoon, Propeller-Driven Sleds, Report of Italian Pilot on "Crows Feet", Markings on German Motor-Maintenance Vehicles; Quartermaster: New German Methods Against Russian Winter Conditions; SECTION II — Some Examples of Katakana (Phonetic Japanese) Used in Communications.

• #13: December 3, 1942
  SECTION I — Air: Camouflage of Enemy Aircraft; Antiaircraft: Missions of Army Fla (AA/AT) Battalion; Antitank: Siting of Antitank Weapons; Artillery: 20-mm Mountain Dual-Purpose Gun, Model 38, German 150-mm Infantry Gun on a Self-Propelled Mount; Chemical Warfare: Fake Gases; Engineers: Notes on Minefields in Egyptian Operations, Japanese Methods of Camouflage; Infantry: The Japanese Use of Task Forces in the South Seas, Japanese Special Naval Landing Parties, Lessons from Malaya, British Middle East Infantry Training Depot, Small-Arms Fire against Aircraft, The Pioneer Platoon of the German Infantry Regiment; Mechanized Vehicles: Tank Versus Tank, Organization of the German Armored Division, Russian Views on Tank Warfare, Added Protection for German Tanks, Semovente 75/18 Self-Propelled Equipment, Armored Tactics in the Egyptian Offensive; Medical: Mosquito-Repellant Lotion, Casualties of British Tank Personnel in North Africa; Military Intelligence: Effect of Rain on Desert Operation; Ordnance: "Crowfeet" Dropped on Landing Fields, German Rocket Bomb, Stacking of Ammunition in the Field, New German Guns; Quartermaster: German Parachute-Troop Equipment; SECTION II — Notes on Japanese Tactics.

• #14: December 17, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: ME-210 Fighter, German Gliders and Gliderborne Troops; Antiaircraft: German Mobile Auxiliary Director, German Gun-Fire Against Aircraft; Antitank: Tactical Use of German 20-mm Dual-Purpose Gun, German Tactics in the Desert; Chemical Warfare: Incendiaries; Engineers: Japanese Camouflage Garment, Training of Engineer Units, German Methods of Clearing Minefields, German Large Pneumatic Boat; Infantry: Italian Small-Scale Counterattacks, Initial Action on the El Alamein Line, Japanese Tactics and the Employment of Parachute Troops, German Construction and Development of a Strongpoint, German Assault Detachments, Devices for Crossing Streams; Mechanized Vehicles: Consolidation after a Counterattack, Increased Protection on German Tanks, Italian Tank Signals, Tank Warfare in Streets; Medical: Burns in the British Middle East Forces, German Ambulance Sled; Military Intelligence: Civilian Control, British Security Control of Prisoners of War; Ordnance: Clearing Objects Dropped on Allied Airdromes, Effects of Dust on Motors, Motor Transport Problems in French Equatorial Africa, German 120-mm Mortar; Quartermaster: Japanese Parachute Troop Equipment, Conservation of Class III Supplies, Mobilization of Iron Stocks; General: Factors Responsible for British Victory in Middle East; SECTION II — American and British Tactics--As Viewed by the Japanese.

• #15: December 31, 1942 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Japanese Pilots, German Airdromes in Western Europe; Antitank: Italian 1.85-inch Antitank Gun; Chemical Warfare: 50-Kilogram Phosphorus Incendiary Bomb, German Heavy Antigas Clothing, German Gas Defense Equipment; Engineers: British Mobile Scissors-Bridge, Engineer Support of Tanks, Another German Booby Trap; Infantry: Some Basic German Tactics, Training of Russian Automatic Riflemen, Notes on Operations in Malaya; Mechanized Vehicles: Tanks in Night Action, Lessons for Armored Units; Medical: Treatment of War Wounds in the Middle East; Ordnance: German 50-mm Antitank Gun 38, German Mobile Truck Maintenance Company; Quartermaster: U.S. Rations and Kitchen Equipment under Desert Conditions, Reports from the Field on Performance of Equipment; Signal Corps: German Wire Communication in North Africa; General: Summary and Evaluation of Operations in Egypt, October 23 to November 7, 1942; SECTION II — Seafood in the Indo-Pacific Area.

• #16: January 14, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Evasive Tactics of German Level Bombers, Japanese Ruse--A Decoy Ship, Salvage of Captured Aircraft by the German Air Force; Antiaircraft: German Six-Gun Heavy Antiaircraft Batteries; Chemical Warfare: Incendiary Capsules, Incendiary Leaves; Engineers: Japanese Camouflage, Italian Minefields in North Africa, Three New German Igniters; Infantry: Lessons from German Infantry Operations, German Attacks on Permanent Defenses, Stereotyped Attack Tactics in the Middle East, Occupation of a Position at Night, Annual Base Pay--Japanese Army, Ski Patrols of the Soviet Army, Notes on Japanese Operations; Mechanized Vehicles: Lessons from Armored Operations, German Methods of Armored Attack by Small Units, Simulated Tank Attack, Russian Tank Tactics Against German Tanks; Ordnance: German 200-mm Spigot Mortar Bomb; Quartermaster: German 21st Armored Division--Division Supply, Water Supply of a German Tank Battalion in Libya, Varieties of Japanese Uniforms; Signal Corps: German Automatic Meteorological Transmitter, German Army Signal Regiment; General: Aids to Movements at Night, Selections from Japanese Field Instructions, Food from the Sago Palm; SECTION II — The German Advance from the North--Kiev Operation.

• #17: January 28, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: German Decoy Targets, Japanese "Slick" Navigation Over Water, Japanese Use of U.S. Planes; Antiaircraft: German Railway Flak; Antitank: Penetration Performance of Antitank Guns; Artillery: German Light-Weight Artillery; Chemical Warfare: Civil Protection against Gas Warfare in Enemy Countries, Protection of Horses; Engineers: German Methods of Crossing Ice, German Mine Detector Rod; Infantry: German Notes on Street Fighting, British Notes on Street Fighting, Tactics on Guadalcanal and New Guinea; Mechanized Vehicles: German Methods of Armored Attack by Small Units, Russian Tank Camouflage in Winter; Medical: Effective Use of First-Aid Kits; Military Intelligence: German Interrogation of Prisoners of War; Ordnance: Ammunition for German Rocket Projector; Quartermaster: German Motor Vehicle Road Trains; SECTION II — German Attack at El Alamein: August 31-September 5, 1942; Corrections.

• #18: February 11, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: The German Cable Cutter; Antiaircraft: 88-mm Antiaircraft Gun on Railway Mounting; Antitank: German Defensive Tactics in Russia, New German 75-mm Antitank Gun, New Axis Self-Propelled Guns; Armored Force: Russian Employment of Tanks, New German Tanks; Artillery: Italian Parachute Artillery Equipment; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Flame-Thrower; Engineers: Minefields in North Africa, Italian Variable-Pressure Mine, German Hollow Demolition Charge; Infantry: German Tactics--Russian Front, British Notes on a Campaign in Cyrenaica, Scouts and Observers; Medical: Schistosomiasis; Ordnance: German Anticoncrete Shell, New German Antipersonnel Bomb, Ammunition for German 100-mm Chemical Mortar, German Rocket Weapons, Axis Hollow-Charge Ammunition, Destruction or Salvage of Enemy Munitions, Destruction of Abandoned Vehicles, German Use of Captured Material; Quartermaster: German Rations in Libya; Signal Corps: Italian Parachute Signal Flare; Glossary: British Terms Used in Relation to Armor; SECTION II — German Attack under Cover of Area Smoke Screen.

• #19: February 25, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Japanese Fighter Aircraft; Antiaircraft: German Rope Barrage; Antitank: Russian Antitank Tactics, Japanese Action against U.S. Tanks, Ammunition for German 42-mm Antitank Gun; Armored Force: German Flame-Throwers on Tanks; Artillery: German Precautions against Counterbattery Fire; Engineers: Enemy Minefields at El Alamein, Construction of British Advanced Landing Fields, Enemy Booby Trap; Infantry: Tactical Employment of German 75-mm Assault Gun, Concealment of German Trenches, Japanese Task Force in China; Medical: Snake Bite; Military Intelligence: Identification of German Prisoners; Ordnance: German Hollow-Charge Ammunition for 75-mm Tank Gun, German 37-mm Stick Bomb, Sleds for Winter Warfare, German Motorcycle Tractor; Quartermaster: British Supply Problems, Reversible Uniforms; Signal Corps: British Signal Security in North Africa; SECTION II — "Dangers" of the Tropics; Corrections.

• #20: March 11, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Japanese Fighter Tactics, Misleading Markings on German Planes; Antiaircraft: German Heimatflak Units, German Heavy Antiaircraft Battery; Armored Force: German Heavy Tank, New Armament of German Pz.Kw. 3 and 4; Chemical Warfare: German Tear-Gas Grenade, German Experiments with Smoke against Tanks; Engineers: German Antitank Mine -- LPz; Infantry: German Tactics in North Africa, Notes on Some German Tactics Used in Russia; Medical: Prevention of Malaria; Ordnance: New German 70-Kilogram Bomb, Marking of German HE Bombs, Axis Motor Vehicles in North Africa, The New German Machine Gun -- M.G. 42; Quartermaster: New Luftwaffe Overall, German Concentrated Food for Military Uses; General: German Discipline, Pay of German Army Personnel in Africa; SECTION II — Regulations Governing Japanese Troops Occupying Conquered Areas; SECTION III — Index: Tactical and Technical Trends, Issues 11-20 (Inclusive); Corrections.

• #21: March 25, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: The Me-323 Transport; Antiaircraft: German Air-Raid Warning System; Antitank: German AA Guns for Use against Mechanized Vehicles, German 76.2-mm Self-Propelled Gun, Finnish Tank Traps Over Frozen Rivers; Armored Force: Pz. Kw. 3 with 75-mm Gun; Chemical Warfare: Three Japanese Lacrimatory Weapons; Engineers: Japanese Field Works at Buna; Infantry: Japanese Ruses--Buna Area, Japanese Tactics on Guadalcanal; Ordnance: Italian 45-mm Mortar, Some Notes on German Weapon Development; Quartermaster: Axis Use of Diesel Oil for Anti-Freeze, Gas and Oil in German Mechanized Vehicles; General: Food Available in the Jungle; Japanese Date Systems; Glossary: Code Names of Japanese Fighter Aircraft; SECTION II — Some German Views on Fortifications.

• #22: April 8, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Italian Fighter Planes; Antiaircraft: Flak Directional Arrows to Guide German Fighter Planes; Antitank: German 75-mm Antitank Gun, Vulnerable Spots for Incendiary Grenades on German Tanks, German Antitank Units in Rearguard Action in Africa; Armored Force: Observations on German Employment of Armored Infantry, Ammunition Carried by German Tanks; Artillery: German 150-mm Self-Propelled Gun; Chemical Warfare: Three Japanese Incendiaries, Japanese Personal Decontamination Kit; Engineers: German Winter Field Fortifications, and the Use of Ice-Concrete, German Engineer Attack Methods, Antilifting Device Fitted to French Antitank Mine; Infantry: German Patrols in North Africa, German Use of Aircraft for Ground Security at Night, Japanese Tactics in New Guinea, Some Principles from the War on the Russian Front; Medical: Japanese Water-Purification Kit; Ordnance: Interchangeability of Pistol Ammunition, German 150-mm Infantry Howitzer, German Long-Range 172-mm Gun; Quartermaster: A 550-Pound "Food Bomb", Enemy Fuels Examined; Signal Corps: German Emergency Signal Container and Flare Pistol; SECTION II — Operations and Tactics—Guadalcanal; Corrections.

• #23: April 22, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Recent Flying Limitations Imposed on German Aircraft, The Me-109 G; Antitank: German Antitank Magnetic Charge; Armored Force: Coins as a Measurement of Armor Thickness; Artillery: German Visual Signal System for Artillery Fire Control; Chemical Warfare: German Acid Smoke Float, German Chemical Warfare Vehicles; Engineers: German "S" Mines Combined with Tellermines, German Views on Russian Summer Camouflage; Infantry: Some German Battle Observations on the Russian Front, German Views on Russian Tactics in Woods, Fighting on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea; Ordnance: German Bomb with Nose Extension Rod, Italian 8-mm Breda Medium Machine Gun, Model 37; Quartermaster: German Convoy-Control Signals; SECTION II — German Close-in Tactics Against Armored Vehicles.

• #24: May 6, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: GAF Aircraft Markings, German Air Support of Tanks in Africa; Antitank: The German "AP 40" Antitank Shot; Armored Force: Suggested Reorganization of the Rifle Company of a German Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, German Heavy Tank -- PzKw 6; Chemical Warfare: German Chemical Warfare Notes, German Area Smoke-Screening, German Warning Flags for Gassed Areas; Engineers: German Field Exploder, 1941 Model, Some Booby Trap Precautions, German Mine-Locating Instruments; General: Notes on German Divisional Intelligence; Infantry: Italian Rock-Climbing Platoons, Some Japanese Defensive Methods, Further Notes on the Malayan Campaign, Notes on German Paratroops -- New Type 105-mm Mortar, MG Tracer Cross-Fire to Indicate Targets; Ordnance: German 100-mm Mortar, New German 37-mm Stick Bomb, German Semi-Automatic Rifle, Italian 81-mm Mortar Ammunition -- Weight Variations; Signal Corps: German Visual Communications Between Aircraft and Ground Troops; Transportation: German Class "52" Locomotive, New Type German Movable Rail; SECTION II — Notes on German Armored Units.

• #25: May 20, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Italian Cantieri Z 1007, A New-Type Japanese Medium Bomber; Antiaircraft: German Antiaircraft Ceilings, Antitank: German 75-mm Antitank -- 7.5-cm Pak 40; Armored Force: Increased Protection on PzKw 3 and 4, Protection of Jap Tanks against Sticky Grenades; Chemical Warfare: German Antigas Equipment for Horses; Engineers: Camouflage, German Warning Devices in Libya, German Wooden Antitank Mines, Italian Antipersonnel Mine; Infantry: Some Notes on German Experiences in Russia, German Combat Instructions, Japanese Use of Noise as a Weapon; Ordnance: Plastic-Wood Liquid-Air Bomb, Italian 5-Kilogram Target-Indicator Bomb; Signal Corps: Axis Smoke Codes and Signals, Transportation: Notes on Russian and Japanese Animal-Drawn Transport; SECTION II — Enemy Self-Propelled Guns--A Summary of Known Equipment; Corrections.

• #26: June 3, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Aerial Bombing Attacks on Aircraft, Low-Level Fighter-Bomber Raids; Antiaircraft: German 128-mm AA Gun; Antitank: Development of German Tank and Antitank Guns, Italian 90/53 Self-Propelled Gun; Armored Force: New Model PzKw 2, Combat Tactics of German Medium Tank Companies; Artillery: German 75-mm Recoilless Gun, LG 40; Engineers: Enemy Engineer Delaying Tactics, German Construction Troops, German Safety-Fuze Igniters, Land-Mine Laying for Road Obstruction, Russian Defenses Before Moscow; Infantry: German Combat Experiences in Russian Wooded Country, Some British Observations of Japanese Tactics, Japanese Tactics in the Milne Bay Operations; Medical: Atabrine for Malaria; Ordnance: Italian 75/27 HE Fragmentation Shell, Italian 8-mm Breda Machine Gun, Model 38; Signal Corps: German Radio Communication for 105-mm Gun Battery; General: Prisoners of War Used for Propaganda, Notes on Italian Organization, Experience in Russia Modifies German Training Methods; Section II — Tactics of Street Fighting on the Russian Front.

• #27: June 17, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: The Present Version of the FW-190, Russian Attack Aviation; Antiaircraft: German Searchlights; Antitank: The Spotlight Antitank Laying Teacher, German Use of AT Guns with Tanks, Destruction of Disabled Tanks; Armored Force: Notes on the PzKw 4, German Destruction of Own Tanks, Fire from German Tanks in a Night Attack; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Smoke Warfare; Engineers Laying of Enemy Large Protective Minefields, German Blast Drive Rod, D.K.; Infantry: German Habits in Defense and Attack, German Tactics on the Mareth Line, British Observations on Fighting in Burma, Japanese Mortar Ranging by Tracer Fire; Ordnance: German 150-mm Rocket Considered Ineffective by British, Safety Precautions for Japanese "91" Grenade, HE Grenades for German Signal Pistol, New German Semiautomatic Rifle; General: Japanese National Festivals, Notes on Japanese Forces on Attu; SECTION II — The Forcing of the Narew River Crossing.

• #28: July 1, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Eleven Men Died--Why?, An Italian Air Force Assault Regiment; Antiaircraft: The Organization of German Antiaircraft Defense; Antitank: A German Antitank Gun Emplacement, German 88's in Tunisia; Armored Force: German Rules for Tank Employment, German Tank Ruse; Artillery: Notes on German Artillery Forward Observers; Engineers: German Tellermines, Electric Igniter for German S-Mines, Enemy Booby Trap; Infantry: The German Soldier in Defense, Russian Notes on Flank Security in a Breakthrough; Ordnance: Types of 20-mm Weapons, Japanese Air Bombs; General: Notes on Japanese Tactics on Attu; SECTION II — Commando Raid on Varengeville France (19 August 1942).

• #29: July 15, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Fragmentation Bombs, Japanese Camouflage and Deception Methods on Airfields; Antiaircraft: New Ultra-High Velocity German "88"; Antitank: German 76.2-mm Self-Propelled Gun, German "Tank Hunting" Tactics; Armored Force: Armor Arrangement on German Tanks; Artillery: Artillery Command in the German Army; Chemical Warfare: German and Italian Individual Antigas Equipment; Engineers: Construction of Submerged Bridge, German Tellermines; Infantry: German Defense of Lines of Communication in Russia, Japanese Notes on Jungle Warfare, German Views on Sniping, German Rearguard Action on British Eighth Army Front; Medical: Some Notes on Health Precautions; Ordnance: Two German 100-mm Smoke/HE Mortars, German NC 50 Smoke Bomb; General: Inch Equivalents of Millimeter Measurements, Security in the British Indian Army; SECTION II — Underground Mining Operations in Warfare.

• #30: July 29, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Italian Macchi 205; Antiaircraft: German 105-mm Antiaircraft Gun, German Gun-Fire Defense against Low-Flying Hostile Aircraft; Antitank: Attack against German Heavy Tank--PzKw 6; Armored: German Submersible Tanks; Artillery: New German 105-mm Gun-Howitzer; Engineers: Clearance of German Minefields in Tunisia; Medical: German Health Pamphlet for North Africa; Infantry: German Night Fighting Tactics; Ordnance: AP Ammunition for German 8.8-cm Flak 41, German MG-151 Type 15- and 20-mm Aircraft Weapons; Quartermaster: Summary of Captured Fuels and Lubricants; Signal: German Radio Tactics; General: German Army Propaganda Units, The Todt Organization and Affiliated Services; SECTION II — Notes on Combat; SECTION III — Index, Tactical and Technical Trends, Issues 21-30 Inclusive.

• #31: August 12, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Junkers 52; Antiaircraft: Japanese Antiaircraft Gun Installations; Antitank: Tactics of Russian Antitank Regiments, A German Antitank Measure; Armored: Cooperation of German Infantry and Tanks, Japanese Light Tank; Artillery: Observations on German Artillery Tactics; Chemical Warfare: German Weapon Decontaminant; Engineers: British Demolition and Gapping of Antitank Obstacles, German Improvised Antipersonnel Mine; Infantry: Construction of a German Battalion Defense Area in North Africa, Japanese Conduct of the Defense; Medical: Immersion Foot; Ordnance: German 105-mm Hollow Charge Shell, Gudol Powders, More Details of the German MG 42, Prematures in German Four-Barrelled AA Gun; Transportation Corps: Notes on German Rolling Stock; General: Deception Used by German PWs; SECTION II — Operations of Axis Mountain Troops; Corrections.

• #32: August 26, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Some Features of German Air Tactics; Antiaircraft: German Aerial Defense with All Weapons, Organization of Japanese AA Regiment; Antitank: Tactics of German Antitank Artillery; Armored: German PzKw 3, German Eight-Wheeled Armored Vehicles; Artillery: Artillery and Tank Cooperation--Enemy Methods; Engineers: Notes on Camouflage; Infantry: Japanese Offensive Tactics, Rommel's Defenses of Stabilized Position at El Alamein; Ordnance: German Anticoncrete Shells--150- and 210-MM Calibers, Comparison of German Machine Guns; General: Handling of Captured Munitions; SECTION II — German Smoke Tactics for Support of Combat Troops.

• #33: September 9, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Axis Use of Captured U. S. Aircraft, German Air Tactics—Russian Front; Antiaircraft: British Aerial Dart Gun for Training AA Machine Gunners, Protection Against Dive Bombing; Armored: German Tank Rubber Analysis, Mounting of 50-mm Kw.K 39 Tank Guns; Artillery: Deceptive German Artillery Methods, Artillery in Combat in Wooded Areas; Engineers: Building with Native Materials, Methods of Clearing Minefields, German Improvised Mine; Infantry: Some Basic Tactics of the Japanese, German Defensive Tactics in Wooded and Marshy Country, Italian Malaria Prevention, Army Medical Conditions in North Africa; Ordnance: German 200-mm Spigot Mortar; General: Field Notes on Sicilian and African Operations, The Sting Ray or Stingaree; SECTION II — The Economic Organization of the German Army.

• #34: September 23, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: The Me-410 Aircraft; Antiaircraft: Protection Against Japanese Aerial Bombing, General von Arnim's Orders for Ground Deployment; Antitank: Italian L Type Grenade, German Conversion of French 75s into Antitank Guns; Artillery: Japanese 70-mm Howitzer Model 92, Notes on German Artillery Tactics in Tunisia, Russian Artillery Support in Tank Attacks; Armored: Notes of a British Armored Force Officer on German Tank Employment, Detailed Report on the German "Tiger" PzKw 6; Chemical Warfare: Italian Portable Flame Thrower, Model 41; Engineers: German Compass Card, German Butterfly Bomb; Infantry: Notes on the German Infantry Division; Medical: Notes on Mobile Surgical Units in the Middle East; Ordnance: Axis Use of Skoda AA/AT Gun, Testing Antiaircraft Gun Barrels in Combat Areas, Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun; Signal Corps: German Recognition Signals; General: Drinking Water from the Rattan Vine; SECTION II — Lessons from the New Zealand Division Operations in Cyrenaica; Corrections.

• #35: October 7, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Italian SM-82; Antiaircraft: Employment of German AAA; Antitank: Coastal Antitank Obstacles, Russian Antitank Tactics, Use of Hawkins Grenades; Armored: German Comment on Enemy Tanks, The German Gun "Ferdinand"; Artillery: 105-mm Airborne Recoilless Howitzer; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Smoke Weapons; Engineers: Improvised Antipersonnel Mine, Japanese AT Mine, Model 93, Launching the Bailey Bridge, German Aluminum AT Mine; Infantry: Landing Operations, Notes from Guadalcanal; Medical: German Medical Services; Ordnance: Japanese Model 99 MG, Mine Igniter Adaptation, 380-mm Spigot Mortar Bomb; Signal Corps: German Field Telephone Batteries; SECTION II — Recruitment of the Waffen-SS.

• #36: October 21, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Dornier 217-E; Antiaircraft: German 88-mm Dual-Purpose Gun; Antitank: Magnetic AT Hollow Charge; Armored: German Armor Against a Bridge; Artillery: Russian Artillery Counter-Preparation, German 105-mm SP Assault Howitzer 42, Classification of German Artillery; Chemical Warfare: German Glass Smoke Grenades; Engineers: Engineer Practices in Winter, Firing Load, Tellermine No. 2, Clearing Unexploded Butterfly Bombs, Neutralizing Tellermine Igniters; Infantry: British Street Fighting Tactics, A German Field Order; Medical: Notes on Japanese Medical Services, German Anti-Lice Clothing; Ordnance: German Rifle Grenade Equipment, Japanese 250-kg. HE and Incendiary Bomb; SECTION II — Axis Aerial Gas Weapons; Corrections.

• #37: November 4, 1943 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Russian Combat Experiences with the FW-190; Antitank: Locating Mine Fields, New German 42/28-mm AT Gun; Armored: The PzKw 5 (Panther) Tank; Artillery: Russian Artillery vs Enemy Airplanes; Chemical Warfare: Comparison Chart of War Gases; Engineers: Principles of Camouflage, Engineer Lessons from Sicily; Infantry: Some Basic Principles of Coastal Defense, Japanese Tactics—Arakan Campaign; Ordnance: Japanese Equipment Found on Kiska, German Spike Bombs, Japanese Air Bombs (Army and Navy), German Mobile Shops, German AT Grenade Rifle, Japanese 70-mm Howitzer Ammunition; General: Defense of Populated Places, German Currencies in Occupied Countries; SECTION II — Japanese Defense of a Coral Island.

• #38: November 18, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: Aircraft Against Tanks; Antiaircraft: Japanese AA/AT 20-mm Machine Cannon; Antitank: New German 88-mm AT Gun; Artillery: Japanese Artillery in the Arakan, German 75-mm Mountain Gun; Armored: German Four-Wheeled Armored Cars; Chemical Warfare: German Use of Area Smoke Screens, Italian 2-Kg Smoke Pot; Engineers: Enemy Mining of Roads, German Camouflage Methods in Sicily, Engineer Operations in the Jungle; Infantry: German Defense of Positions, Port Moresby—Attack Directive, Some German Tactics in Tunisia; Medical: German Medical Notes; Ordnance: German Paratrooper's Rifle F.G. 42, Japanese Hollow-Charge Rifle Grenade; Quartermaster: Use of Rubber in Japanese Equipment; General: German Portable Haversack Filter; SECTION II — German Concentration of Fire—Medium Mortars.

• #39: December 2, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: The JU-188; Antiaircraft: German 37-mm AA Gun, Russian AA Artillery Methods; Armored: German 6-Wheeled Armored Cars, German Flame-Throwing Tank, PzKw 2 (F); Artillery: German Use of Captured 120-mm Mortars, German 128-mm SP Gun; Chemical Warfare: Japanese Flame Thrower Type 93 (Modified), Japanese Markings on Chemical Munitions; Engineers: German Mine Detector -- Frankfurt 42, Adhesive Paste for Demolition Charges, German Wooden Box Mine 42, Improvised Plastic Mine; Infantry: German Motorized Infantry Division; Medical: German Swamp Stretcher; Ordnance: Japanese Height Finder, Enemy Use of Spaced Armor, Track-Wheel Vehicles; Signal Corps: New German Emergency Transmitter; General: Some Aspects of Security; SECTION II — German Field Defenses; Corrections.

• #40: December 16, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Antiaircraft: German Predictor 40, Area Burst of German AA Shells; Antitank: Vulnerability of Tiger Tanks, The 75/55-mm AT Gun, Pak 41; Armored: German PzKw 5—Additional Information, Armor Skirting on German Tanks; Artillery: German 12-cm Mortar Battalions, Storage of Ammunition During Rainy Seasons; Chemical Warfare: Use of Smoke by German Air Force, Smoke Generators—German 8-Wheeled Armored Car; Engineers: Notes on Applied Camouflage, Enemy Booby Traps Recently Encountered, German Armored Portable Pill Box; Infantry: The Japanese at Buna, German Close-Quarter Fighting and Withdrawal; Ordnance: Japanese 81-mm Mortar Ammunition, German Grenade Pistol Ammunition, German Modified Signal Pistol; General: German Evacuation Order—Sicily; SECTION II — Finnish Views on Sniping; Corrections; Index, Tactical and Technical Trends, Issues 31-40 Inclusive.

• #41: December 30, 1943 [p]
  SECTION I — Air: The HE-177, Japanese Air-Ground Liaison; Antiaircraft: German AA Pivoted Ring Sight; Antitank: Recognition Leaflets for German AT Guns; Armored: Lessons in Tank Tactics, Tank Versus AT Gun; Artillery: German 150-mm SP Assault Howitzer; Engineers: Marking of German Minefields, Some German Mine-Laying Methods, German "Stock" Mine German "Pram" Mine Detector, Explosive Rivet; Ordnance: Additional Data—German 42/28-mm AT Gun, German Heavy Transport Trailer, Japanese 81-mm Mortar, Type 99, Japanese Antiaircraft Bomb, Improved Nose-Rod for Air Bombs, Japanese 90-mm Mortar, Type 94; General: German Destruction of Motor Vehicles, Development of the Waffen SS; SECTION II — Employment of Flak with the Field Army.

• #42: January 13, 1944 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Airplane Grappling Iron, Enemy AA Rockets and Air Bombs; Antiaircraft: Japanese Antiaircraft Fire; Armored: German Armored Train, Enemy Use of Skirting on Tanks; Artillery: Notes on Japanese Artillery, German 150-mm SP Field Howitzer; Cavalry: Soviet Saddle Packing; Engineers: Study of Minefields from Air Photos, Enemy Use of Mines, Modifications of the S-Mine 35; Infantry: German Paratroop Attack, Field Order for the Construction of Positions; Ordnance: Japanese 50-Kg HE Bomb, Type 97, Disintegrating Rotating Bands for German Shells, Firing Data, German MG 42; Signal Corps: Japanese Sound-Powered Telephone; SECTION II — German Infantry Regiment.

• #43: January 27, 1944 [p]
  SECTION I — Antitank: Japanese 47-mm AT Gun; Artillery: The 100-mm Skoda Howitzer; Engineers: German Make-Shift Ramp Mine, Improvised Shell Mine; Infantry: Japanese Use of Military Barges; Ordnance: German Propaganda Rifle Grenade, German Rocket Ammunition, Enemy Heating of Vehicle Coolant, Japanese Model 97 (1937) 7.7-mm MG, Japanese Delayed-Fuze 20-mm Ammunition; Signal Corps: German Two-Way Radio Telephones; Transportation Corps: Soviet Railroad Restoration; SECTION II — Japanese Navy Special Landing Forces.

• #44: March 1944

• #45: April 1, 1944 [p]
  
  SECTION I — Antiaircraft: Additional Data—German AA Sight 30/38; Antitank: German Airborne 28/20-mm AT Gun; Armored: Wheel-cum-Track Observation Vehicle, German Flame Thrower on Pz Kw 3 Chassis; Artillery: Four German 150-mm Guns; Chemical Warfare: German 71 Smoke Regiment; Engineers: French 75-mm Shells in Mines, Railway Track Destroyer, German Improvised Mines 42(n) and AP Mine 43(n), German Trip-Wire Alarm, Improvised Stick Grenade, Japanese Booby Traps; Infantry: German Defense Against Airborne Troops, German Infantry Minor Tactics; Medical: Observations—German Medical Services; Ordnance: Four German Hollow-Charge Shells, German Hollow-Charge Bombs; Quartermaster: SS Camouflage Jumper; Signal Corps: German Five-Watt Sender; General: German "Paper War"; SECTION II — German Defense of the Volturno River Line.

• #46: May 1, 1944 [a]
  SECTION I — Air: Additional Data—"Tojo" Type 2 Fighter; Antitank: German Antitank Rocket Launcher, Penetration Range 75-mm Pak 41 Ammunition; Armored: German Instructions—Motorized Infantry; Artillery: German Roving Guns, Additional Data—German 75-mm Mountain Gun; Engineers: Enemy Mine Clearance, German Field Pile-Driving Frame, German Pile-Drivers; Infantry: Withdrawal and Delaying Actions, Signs of a German Attack; Ordnance: Italian Illuminating Projectile, The Skoda 75-mm Mountain Howitzer; Signal Corps: Trends in German Signal Equipment; General: Observations—Sicilian Campaign; Section II — Japanese Signal Services.

• #47: June 1, 1944 [p]
  SECTION I — Antiaircraft: Japanese Aerial Burst Bombs; Antitank: Vulnerable Parts of PzKw 6, German Hollow-Charge AT Grenade, German 88-mm AT Gun; Armored: German Employment of Heavy Armored Platoon, German Recovery of Damaged Tanks; Engineers: German Portable Power Saws, German Stone Bunkers, Additional Data—German "S" Mines; Infantry: Japanese Defensive Tactics in Burma; Medical: Precautions Against Scrub Typhus; Ordnance: Smokeless Powder, Japanese Rifle Grenade Launcher, Model 100, New German 7.92-mm MG 43, New German Semiautomatic Rifle, Japanese Pressure Detonator; Signal Corps: Japanese Field Wire; SECTION II — Reading a Japanese Map; Corrections.

• #48: July 1944

• #49: August 1944

• #50: September 1944

• #51: October 1944
  Inside Germany: Westwall, Springboard of 1940, Assumes Defensive Role; Germany's Replacement Army May Be in the Last Battle; German Tactics: Allied Fire Power Forces Enemy to Stress Night Infiltration; Smokescreens, Suspended Mines as Antiair Defense; German Antitank Tactics: Text of a Captured Document; German Weapons and Munitions: New Hollow-Charge Antitank Grenade for Close Combat; 88-mm German Antitank Gun Used in France; German Rockets in Eight Different Calibers; A.P.C.B.C. May Become Most-Used German Pak 40 Ammunition; New 75-mm German Assault Gun; The Eastern Front: German Position Warfare Reverts to Trench Lines; German Employment of Strategic Reserves: A Soviet View; German Mines: Antitank Mine Looks Like Wood Chest, Has Four Igniters; Germans May Use French Mine in Antitank Defenses; Wooden Antipersonnel Mines Found in German Stores; Germans Use Spacing Wire in Laying Mine Belts; New German Igniter Which Cannot Be Neutralized; Igniter for French-Made Sprungmine 442 (f); Rollbombe, Concrete Ball Mine; German—Miscellaneous: Pantiger, a Redesigned Tiger Heavy Tank; German Infantry Division Cut to Meet Manpower Shortage; Portable German Reading Lamp; Light Armored Half-Track; Improvised Signal-Pistol Flare; Terrain Murals in a Norman Fort; German Dummy Coastal Positions; Japanese Tanks and Motor Vehicles: Modernized Tanks, with Heavier Armor, May Be Expected; Japanese Vehicles Can Be Operated on U.S. Fuels; Japanese Matériel: Grenade Discharger Used for Low-Angle Fire; Japanese Have 75-mm Incendiary Shells; Characteristics of Principal Japanese Weapons; Portable Field Signal Lamp; Improvements in Tropical Uniforms.

• #52: November 1944

• #53: December 1944

• #54: January 1945

• #55: February 1945

• #56: March 1945

• #57: April 1945
  Allied Matériel and Operations: Soviet Armor, Battle for Arnhem Bridgehead, Canadian Assault on Scheldt Estuary, Artificial Moonlight, Psychological Warfare in the Philippines Developments in Germany: Breaching the Siegfried Line, Panther Tanks Disguised as M10's, Machine Carbine Redesignated, Muzzle Brake for Heavy M.G. 42, Improved Photophone, Communications in a German Infantry Division, Soviet Mines Used by German Army Japanese Island Operations: Leyte Field Fortifications, Evacuation of Wounded in Southwest Pacific, Japanese Landing Craft, Counter-Landing on Peleliu Japanese Matériel: 81-mm Mortar Shells, Model 90 75-mm Field Gun, New 7.7-mm Machine Gun, Anti-Gas Pouch, Variations of Model 100 Submachine Gun, New Conical Antitank Grenade, Japanese Photophone

• #58: May 1945

• #59: June 1945