United States NavyBesprekingen

One topic per booklet: 1) Ice Formation on Aircraft; 2) Thunderstorms; 3) Fog; 4) Air Masses and Fronts; 5) The Warm Front; 6) The Cold Front; 7) The Occluded Fronts; 8) Flying the Weather Map; 9) The Equatorial Front; 10) Typhoons and Hurricanes.

The U S Government Printing Office used to have cheap books on many many subjects available for mail order. I built a library of interesting non-fiction from their catalogs when I was in high school. This electronics book was a guide for Navy electronics technicians in the vacuum tube era, brand new when I learned from it in the 1950s.

12/3/22

Marvelopus book!

Combat Narratives have been prepared by the Publications Branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence for the officers of the United States Navy.

The data on which these studies are based are those official documents which are suitable for a confidential publication. This material has been collated and presented in chronological order.

In perusing these narratives, the reader should bear in mind that while they recount in considerable detail the engagements in which our forces participated, certain underlying aspects of these operations must be kept in a secret category until after the end of the war.

It should be remembered also that the observation of men in battle are sometimes at variance. As a result, the reports of commanding officers may differ although they participated in the same action and shared a common purpose. In general, Combat Narratives represent a reasoned interpretation of these discrepancies. In those instances where views cannot be reconciled, extract from the conflicting evidence are reprinted. Thus, an effort has been made to provide accurate and, within the above-mentioned limitations, complete narratives with charts covering raids, combats, joint operations, and battles in which our Fleet have engaged in the current war. It is hoped that these narratives will afford a clear view of what has occurred, and form a basis for a broader understanding which will result in ever more successful operations.

Bureau of Naval Weapons Technical Publications

This is a facsimile copy of the original 36-page document (USN1) defining the duties of the officers and men in the service and the regulations to be observed respecting provisions. A note at the end of the 36 pages gives the history of the document.

Helpful for learning Morse code.

Published by the Navy Dept. for the men & women who are working to win the war.

Flight Preparation Training Series

The story of Naval Aviation Training (recruitment tool)

Published as a pilot-training manual, it teaches proper aeronautical navigation techniques through the use of elaborate illustrations -- the kind of stuff that today might be called "info-graphics." "Flight thru Instruments" is so beautiful because it was created by the General Motors "Graphic Engineering" Staff under the leadership of Harley Earl.
Harley Earl worked as a designer at General Motors from 1929 until 1959, where he rose to become the postwar chief of GM's styling section. He drew styling inspiration from airplanes throughout his career, and Earl's most famous design innovation was a little trick he cribbed from the swooping rear fins of the P-38 Lighting fighter flown during World War II. Earl adapted the design for the 1948 Cadillac, and in a stroke, he set in motion a "tailfin" craze that would continue for more than a decade. Before that, however, he put his staff in the service of the war effort, and "Flight thru Instruments" was created in response to a US government contract.
Telstar Logistics http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/air/page/9/
LINKS: Flight thru Instruments (additional illustrations from the book in a Flickr photoset)
Recalling the Graphics Feast At GM Styling During the War Years (Article about "Flight thru Instruments" on the "Official Harley Earl website.")

Foreword: Modern military missions, with their demand for precision flying at all times and under all conditions, cannot wait for daylight - or CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited). The pilot who cannot fly through instruments, therefore, consigns himself and his plane to a part-time job and places both in the premodern era where usefulness was limited by the amount of daylight and visibility. A pilot's usefulness in this age is almost proportional to his ability to fly through instruments. With the advent of the first flight-indicating instrument, flying cased to be strictly by contact. With the addition of each new flight-indicating instrument, flying by visual reference to the ground or the horizon became less important and less used, until today, it's instrument flying or else! And that is what it will be tomorrow. With the array of accurate and reliable instruments that are now standard equipment in all modern planes, flight is effective, precise, and successful under all conditions. These servants of flight attitude and performance are yours to command and to use if you will, but you must understand what they tell you and learn how to use them. This manual reflects the state-of-knowledge, the state-of-practice, and the state-of-the-art during the final phases of the Second World War. It addresses bombing missions, evasive action, and carrier take-offs and other operations.

A Great Introduction to Basic Machines, it builds up slowly and ends with Powertrains.

--Deus Vult
Gottfried.

A Great Introduction to Basic Machines, it builds up slowly and ends with Powertrains.

--Deus Vult
Gottfried.

Original

"Prepared for Training in Naval Ordnance and Gunnery."

Absolutely and outstanding book. if you are coaching a wrestling team or even just want to add wrestling into a martial arts curriculum, this is the book to get. Complete lesson plans for a whole year of coaching included.

Case 5 shelf 6

United States Naval Institute; Annapolis, Md

Good Condition, autographed book.

This was Del's Text for his Navy Days There is a Forward to 10th Edition and 11th Edition and April 1944.

Book Description: 1943. THE EFFECTS OF FLIGHT: PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ASPECTS. FLIGHT PREPARATION TRAINING SERIES. New York 1943, 125pp. First edition.