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The Online Doctrine Library grows a shelf

One of our side projects has been expanded in the past days, and we thought we share:

We recently found 340+ FMs published between 1976 and 1980 on google books, each defining a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), setting skill levels and knowledge expectations for a solider in a defined role on the battlefield. These files have been cleaned up and uploaded onto a separate google site, which can be be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/us-army-mos-fms

Besides the FMs defining MOS skill levels and knowledge, the new cache also yielded a large amount of FMs from between 1940 and 1982. Full statistics again on the About page, but we now haver 80% overall of all field manuals which we know of.  There are again slight discrepancies between out bookkeeping, the number of locally saved files, and the number of files online, but we*re working on that.

The new ones often were just better scans of existing files, but there are about 60 new  manuals in the library, with beauties such as FM 8-24 Community Health Nursing in the Army (1980) and FM 10-26 The Army Food Advisor (1977), but also key documents like FM 17-36 Divisional Armored and Air Cavalry Units from 1965 and FM 17-95.

US Army Field Manuals – A Collection

Full Disclosure: This is me advertising one of my own side projects
Over the years I’ve collected quite and amount of the publicly available US Field Manuals that set down doctrine and guidelines for the way the US Army trains, organizes, and operates. The collection is still woefully incomplete, but contains now ~1900 files of US Army Field manuals from 1930 to 2024. I hope it will be a useful resource for anyone interested in the US Army and its history.

URL:  https://sites.google.com/view/fieldmanuals/

Supply and Ordnance

I’ve finally made some progress in the Excel sheet tracking the 2233 Field manuals currently known to me, and taking  thorough inventory of everything I already have. Currently I’ve got reliable entries for about a third of all the files, but I am aming to complete the list within the next month. This got necessary as during the upload of the last update I again notices several doublettes, and more typos and incorrectly named files. Appologies to all of you for that. When finished, the table should make it possible to track the field manuals still missing, and give a better overview over whats there. I already have another 56 manuals not yet online, but I am gonna keep those until they have been vetted and the list has been completed. So another major update is coming at the end of January – I hope. Until then, godspeed and have a Happy New Year!

And another batch of manuals, this time harvested from the various collections at archive.org. There is still more to come, but for today we have:

FM 1-10 Army Aviation Organizational Aircraft Maintenance (1962).pdf
FM 1-100 Army Aviation.pdf
FM 1-5 Army Aviation Organizations and Employment (1964).pdf
FM 10-13 Quartermaster Reference Data (1957).pdf
FM 10-15 Quartermaster Sales Company (1961).pdf
FM 10-2 Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment Quarterm (1957).pdf
FM 10-52 Headquarters and Headquarters Company Quartermaster Depot (1954).pdf
FM 10-6 Quartermaster Service Company (1956).pdf
FM 10-63 Handling of Deceased Personnel in Theaters of Operations (1959).pdf
FM 10-7 Quartermaster Organization and Operations in Divisions (1959).pdf
FM 11-10 The Signal Battalion Infantry Division (1957).pdf
FM 11-11 The Signal Battalion Armored Division (1958).pdf
FM 11-14 Army Signal Supply and Maintenance Battalion (1959).pdf
FM 11-15 Signal Cable Construction Battalion (1962).pdf
FM 11-22 Signal Operations in the Corps and Army (1945).pdf
FM 11-40 Signal Corps Pictorial Operations (1960).pdf
FM 11-41 Film and Equipment Exchange Operations (1961).pdf
FM 11-50 Signal Battalion Armored Mechanized and Infantry Divisions (1961).pdf
FM 11-83 Signal Base Depot Company (1957).pdf
FM 11-85 Signal Base Maintenance Company (1956).pdf’
FM 11-92 Corps Signal Battalion (1959).pdf
FM 11-95 Arm Signal Battalion (1963).pdf
FM 12-105 Adjutant Generals Field Manual The Army Postal Service (1942).pdf
FM 12-11 Administration Company Airborne Armored Infantry Divisions (1961).pdf
FM 16-100-Character Guidance Manual (1961).pdf
FM 16-5 The Chaplain (1958).pdf
FM 17-15 Tank Units Platoon Company and Battalion (1964).pdf
FM 17-33 Tank Units Platoon Company and Battalion (1959).pdf
M 17-36 Armored Cavalry Platoon and Troop Air Cavalry Troop and Divisional Armored Cavalry Squadron (1963).pdf
FM 19-15 Civil Disturbances and Disasters (1960).pdf
FM 19-5 The Military Policeman (1959).pdf
FM 19-60 Confinement of Military Prisoners (1965).pdf
FM 23-8 U.S. Rifle 7.62-mm M14 (1962).pdf
FM 25-10 Motor Transportation Operations (1959).pdf
FM 27-10 Basic Field Manual Rules of Land Warfare (1944).pdf
FM 27-21 Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Airborne Division Battle Group (1959).pdf
FM 3-0 Operations (2017).pdf
FM 3-97-6 Mountain Operations (2000).pdf
FM 30-101 Aggressor The Maneuver Enemy (1961).pdf
FM 30-101 The Maneuver Enemy (1956).pdf
FM 30-101A Aggressor the Maneuver Enemy Esperanto Language (1959).pdf
FM 30-103 Aggressor Order of Battle (1951).pdf
FM 30-103 Aggressor Order of Battle (1968).pdf
FM 30-104 Aggressor Handbook on Insurgent War [1967].pdf
FM 30-104 Aggressor Representation [1954-03-18].pdf
FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations (1972).pdf
FM 30-28 Armed Forces Censorship (1969).pdf
FM 34-40-2 Basic Cryptanalysis (1990).pdf
FM 34-40-7 Communications Jamming Handbook [1992].pdf
FM 38-1 Logistics Supply Management (1958).pdf
FM 4-01.502 Army Watercraft Safety (2008).pdf
FM 4-10 Coast Artillery Field Manual Seacoast Artillery Gunnery (1942).pdf
FM 4-55 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery. Service of the Piece. 12-inch Mortar (1943).pdf
FM 4-75 Coast Artillery Field Manual. Seacoast Artillery. Service of the Piece. 6-inch Gun on Barbette Carriage (1943) .pdf
FM 41-10 Civil Affairs Military Government Operations (1957).pdf
FM 41-5 Joint Manual of Civil Affairs. Military Government (1958).pdf
FM 44-2 Light Antiaircraft Artillery -Automatic Weapons (1956).pdf
FM 5-132 Infantry Division Engineer Battalion (1957).pdf
FM 5-134 Armored Division Engineer Battalion (1958).pdf
FM 5-15 Engineer Field Manual Field Fortifications (1940).pdf
FM 54-1 The Logistical Command (1959).pdf
FM 54-2 Division Logistics and the Support Command (1961).pdf
FM 55-15 Transportation Corps Reference Data (1960).pdf
FM 55-21 Rail Transportation Higher Units (1955).pdf
FM 55-23 Transportation Railway Shop Battalion (1955).pdf
FM 55-4 Transportation Movements in Theaters of Operations (1959).pdf
FM 55-6 Transportation Service in Theaters of Operation (1955).pdf
FM 55-6 Transportation Services in Theaters of Operations (1961).pdf
FM 6-20 Field Artillery Field Manual Tactics and Techniques (1941).pdf
FM 6-21 Division Artillery Infantry Division (1957).pdf
FM 6-40 Field Artillery Cannon Gunnery (1974).pdf
FM 6-77 105-mm Howitzer M52 Self-Propelled (1956).pdf
FM 7-10 Rifle Company Infantry and Airborne Division Battle Groups (1961).pdf
FM 7-100 Infantry Division (1958).pdf
FM 7-19 Combat Support Company Infantry Division Battle Group (1960).pdf
FM 7-21 Headquarters and Headquarters Company Infantry (1957).pdf
FM 7-21 Headquarters and Headquarters Company Infantry Division (1960).pdf
FM 7-24 Communication in Infantry and Airborne Divisions (1961).pdf
FM 8-10 Medical Service Theater of Operations (1962).pdf
FM 8-35 Transportation of the Sick and Wounded (1960).pdf
FM 8-5 Medical Service Units Theater of Operations (1962).pdf
FM 8-55 Army Medical Service Planning Guide.pdf
FM 9-197 Ordnance General Automotive Support Company (1960).pdf
FM 9-2 Ordnance Corps Logistical Data (1961).pdf
FM 9-4 Ordnance General and Depot Support Service (1959).pdf