Index to Tactical and Technical Trends Issues 31-40, from Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 40, December 16, 1943. [DISCLAIMER: The following text is taken from the U.S. War Department publication Tactical and Technical Trends. As with all wartime intelligence information, data may be incomplete or inaccurate. No attempt has been made to update or correct the text. Any views or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of the website.]

INDEX TACTICAL AND TECHNICAL TRENDS, ISSUES 31-40 (INCLUSIVE) Issue No. Page AIR Germany Air tactics -- Russian front 33 1 Air tactics, some features 32 1 Dornier 217-E 36 1 Ju-52 31 1 Ju-188 39 1 Me-410 aircraft 34 1 Italy SM-82 35 1 Russia Aircraft against tanks 38 1 Combat experiences with the FW-190 37 1 General Axis use of captured U.S. aircraft 33 1 ANTIAIRCRAFT Britain Aerial dart gun for training AA machine gunners 33 4 Germany Area burst of German AA shells 40 2 Aerial defense with all weapons 32 2 88-mm dual-purpose gun 36 3 Employment of AAA 35 3 German Predictor 40 40 1 37-mm AA gun 39 2 Von Arnim's orders for ground deployment 34 4 Japan AA/AT 20-mm machine cannon 38 2 Antiaircraft gun installations 31 2 Organization of Japanese AA Regiment 32 4 Russia AA artillery methods 39 5 General Protection against dive bombing 33 7 Protection against Japanese aerial bombing 34 2 ANTITANK Britain Use of Hawkins grenades 35 13 Germany An antitank measure 31 11 Conversion of French 75's into antitank guns 34 6 88-mm AT gun 38 7 Magnetic AT hollow charge 36 5 New German 42/28-mm AT gun 37 4 Tactics of German antitank artillery 32 5 The 75/55-mm AT gun, Pak 41 40 5 Vulnerability of Tiger tanks 40 2 Italy "L" type grenade 34 5 Russia Tactics 35 9 Tactics of antitank regiments 31 8 General Coastal antitank obstacles 35 7 Locating minefields 37 3 ARMORED Germany Armor against a bridge 36 5 Armor skirting on German tanks 40 11 British armored force officer's notes on German tank employment 34 11 Cooperation of infantry and tanks 31 11 Eight-wheeled armored vehicles 32 8 "Ferdinand" gun 35 16 Flame-throwing tank, PzKw 2 (F) 39 9 Four-wheeled armored cars 38 10 German comment on enemy tanks 35 13 Mounting 50-mm (2 in) KwK 39 tank gun 33 9 PzKw 5 (Panther) tank 37 5 PzKw 5 - additional information 40 8 PzKw 3 32 8 PzKw 6 (Tiger), detailed report 34 13 6-wheeled armored cars 39 6 Tank rubber analysis 33 8 Japan Light tank 31 11 General Artillery and tank cooperation -- enemy methods 32 18 German comment on enemy tanks 35 13 ARTILLERY Germany Artillery in combat in wooded areas 33 12 Captured 120-mm mortars, use 39 11 Classification of artillery 36 13 Deceptive artillery methods 33 9 Mortar battalions, 12 cm 40 12 Notes on artillery tactics in Tunisia 34 9 Observations on artillery tactics 31 15 105-mm airborne recoilless howitzer 35 20 105-mm SP assault howitzer 42 36 11 128-mm SP gun 39 12 75-mm mountain gun 38 9 Japan Artillery in the Arakan 38 7 70-mm howitzer model 92 34 7 Russia Artillery counter-preparation 36 9 Artillery support in tank attacks 34 9 Artillery vs enemy airplanes 37 8 General Artillery and tank cooperation -- enemy methods 32 18 Storage of ammunition during rainy seasons 40 13 CHEMICAL WARFARE France Comparison chart of war gases 37 10 Germany Area smoke screen 38 14 Comparison chart of war gases 37 10 Glass smoke grenades 36 13 Smoke generators -- German 8-wheeled armored car 40 17 Use of smoke by German Air Force 40 14 Weapon decontaminant 31 15 Italy Comparison chart of war gases 37 10 Portable flame thrower, model 41 34 21 2-KG smoke pot 38 17 Japan Comparison chart of war gases 37 10 Flame thrower type 93 (modified) 39 12 Markings on chemical munitions 39 16 Smoke weapons 35 23 United States Comparison chart of war gases 37 10 ENGINEERS Britain Bailey bridge, launching 35 28 Camouflage principles 37 12 Germany Adhesive paste for demolition charges 39 19 Aluminum AT mine 35 31 Armored portable pill box 40 20 Butterfly bomb 34 22 Camouflage methods in Sicily 38 23 Camouflage notes 32 20 Clearing unexploded butterfly bombs 36 21 Compass card 34 22 Demolition and gapping of German antitank obstacles 31 16 Enemy booby traps recently encountered 40 19 Engineer practices in winter 36 16 Firing load Tellermine No. 2 36 21 Improvised antipersonnel mine 31 18 Improvised mine 33 24 Improvised plastic mine 39 24 Mine detector -- Frankfurt 42 39 16 Mining of roads 38 20 Neutralizing Tellermine igniters 36 23 Wooden box mine 42 39 20 Italy Improvised antipersonnel mine 35 25 Japan AT mine, model 93 35 26 General Building with native materials 33 16 Engineer lessons from Sicily 37 20 Engineer operations in the jungle 38 25 Methods of clearing minefields 33 20 Notes on applied camouflage 40 17 INFANTRY Britain Street fighting tactics 36 23 Germany Close-quarter fighting and withdrawal 40 24 Coastal defense, some basic principles 37 21 Construction of battalion defense area in North Africa 31 20 Cooperation of infantry and tanks 31 11 Defense of positions 38 28 Defensive tactics in wooded and marshy country 33 27 A field order 36 26 Motorized infantry division 39 25 Notes on German infantry division 34 24 Rommel's defenses of stabilized position at El Alamein 32 33 Tactics in Tunisia 38 32 Japan Conduct of the defense 31 25 Guadalcanal notes 35 34 Offensive tactics 32 26 Port Moresby -- attack directive 38 29 Some basic tactics 33 25 Tactics -- Arakan Campaign 37 23 The Japs at Buna 40 23 General Landing operations 35 32 MEDICAL German Antilice clothing 36 33 Medical notes 38 35 Medical services 35 40 Swamp stretcher 39 28 Italy Malaria prevention 33 30 Japan Notes on medical services 36 32 General Army medical conditions in North Africa 33 30 Immersion foot 31 33 Notes on mobile surgical units in Middle East 34 31 ORDNANCE Germany Anticoncrete shells -- 150-mm and 210-mm calibers 32 34 AT grenade rifle 37 32 Gudol powders 31 37 Grenade pistol ammunition 40 27 Machine guns, comparison 32 36 MG-42, more details 31 37 Mine igniter adaptation 35 46 Modified signal pistol 40 28 Mobile shops 37 30 105-mm hollow-charge shell 31 35 Paratrooper's rifle F.G. 42 38 36 Prematures in German 20-mm four-barreled AA gun 31 40 Rifle-grenade equipment 36 34 Spike bombs 37 27 Testing antiaircraft gun barrels in combat areas 34 35 380-mm spigot mortar bomb 35 47 Track-wheel vehicles 39 34 200-spigot mortar 33 32 Italy Axis use of Skoda AA/AT gun 34 33 Japan Air bombs (army and navy) 37 27 81-mm mortar ammunition 40 27 Equipment found on Kiska 37 25 Height finder 39 30 Hollow-charge rifle grenade 38 39 MG, model 99 35 44 70-mm howitzer ammunition 37 34 12.7-mm (fixed mount) aircraft machine gun 34 36 250-KG HE and incendiary bombs 36 39 General Enemy use of spaced armor 39 32 QUARTERMASTER Japan Rubber used in Japanese equipment 38 40 SIGNAL CORPS Germany Field telephone batteries 35 47 New emergency transmitter 39 37 Recognition signals 34 38 TRANSPORTATION CORPS Germany Notes on German rolling stock 31 41 GENERAL Germany Currencies in occupied countries 37 39 Deception used by German PW's 31 42 Defense of populated places 37 36 Evacuation order -- Sicily 40 29 Handling of captured munitions 32 40 Portable haversack filter 38 41 General Drinking water from the rattan vine 34 40 Field notes on Sicilian and African operations 33 34 Some aspects of security 39 39 Sting ray or stingaree 33 35 SUPPLEMENTS Operations of Axis mountain troops 31 45 German smoke tactics for support of combat troops 32 45 Economic organization of the German Army 33 41 Lessons from the New Zealand Division operations in Cyrenaica 34 45 Recruitment of the Waffen-SS 35 51 Axis aerial gas weapons 36 45 Japanese defense of a coral island 37 45 German concentration of fire--medium mortars 38 47 German field defenses 39 45 Finnish views on sniping 40 33 CORRECTIONS No. 30, p. 46 31 52 No. 33, p. 4 34 53 No. 35, p. 2 36 54 No. 36, p. 12 39 51 No. 37, p. 6 40 39

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