Japanese Ground and Air Forces Manual: Military Intelligence Services Information Bulletin No. 14

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Japanese Ground and Air Forces Manual. Military Intelligence Information Service Bulletin No. 14. Merriam Press Military Archives.

"This bulletin was prepared in response to requests from units in the field. The photographs were for the purpose of enabling members of the U.S. Armed Forces to identify the Japanese soldier and his equipment and to grasp his capabilities"

Contents

• Introduction
• Aircraft Identification
• Landing Craft Identification
• Soldiers Weapons, Equipment, and Uniforms
• Bridging Equipment
• Artillery
• Armored and Other Vehicles
• Chinese and Japanese Characters
• Japanese Alphabets
• Insignia of Rank: Commissioned Officers and Non-commissioned Officers
• Identification of Japanese Equipment Taken from Japanese Snipers by U.S. Troops in the Philippines

• War Department, Washington, D.C., 1942
  • 134 6x9-inch pages
  • 20 color insignia drawings
  • 85 B&W photos
  • 45 illustrations
  • 9 three-view illustrations
  • 3 two-view illustrations
  • 1 plan-view illustration
  • 3 side view illustrations
  • 6 charts
  • 4 appendices

 

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Thanks for sharing interesting data, Geo.
I remember my father told his sons "Army was hell".