Intelligence Bulletin
Subtitle: Vol 02 No 05 January 1944 and Vol 02 No 06 February 1944
Publisher: United States. War Department
Published: 1944-01
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Intelligence Bulletin Vol 02 No 05 January 1944 and Vol 02 No 06 February 1944; title: Intelligence Bulletin MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION War Department Washington 25, D. C.; title: VOL.2, NO. 5, January 1944; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Part One: Germany; title: Section I. How the German Army Uses Smoke in Combat; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Smoke Screens; title: a. In the Defense; title: b. In the Attack; title: 3. Ground Attacks Employing Area Smoke; title: a. Definition; title: b. Preparations; title: c. Maintaining the Area Smoke Screen; title: d. How Units Are Coordinated; title: e. The Attack; title: f. Aids to Maintaining Direction; title: g. Follow-up of Attack; title: h. Note on Area Screens Used with Water Obstacles; title: II. How Infantry Battalions Develop for the Attack; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. First Stage; title: 3. Second Stage; title: III. Camouflage Against Ground Observers; title: 1. General; title: 2. Use of Natural Concealment; title: 3. Use of Artificial Camouflage; title: a. Employing Natural Material; title: b. Employing Artificial Material; title: 4. Precautions Regarding Noise; title: Section IV. New Heavy Tank: The Pz. Kw. 5 (Panther); title: V. British Comments on German Use of Tanks; title: VI. German Combat Tactics in Towns and Cities; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. In the Attack; title: 3. In the Defense; title: VII. German Stake Mine; title: Part Two: Japan; title: Section I. Enemy Bayonet Technique; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Japanese Regulations; title: a. Guard Position; title: b. Basic Thrust; title: c. Other Types of Thrusts; title: d. Close Combat; title: II. Small-Unit Tactics Used by Japanese at Night; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Manual; title: a. Preparations; title: b. Reconnaissance; title: c. The Approach; title: d. Demolitions; title: e. Assault; title: f. Reorganization; title: III. Comments by Observers on Fighting in Burma; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Enemy Reaction during Combat; title: 3. Notes on Enemy Tactics; title: 4. Notes on Combat Preparations; title: IV. "Three Jeers for the Souvenir Sap"; title: 1. General; title: 2. Specific Cases; title: a. Private (signal company); title: b. 2nd Lieutenant (AA artillery); title: c. Private (engineer company); title: Part Three: United Nations; title: Section I. The Infantry Lieutenant and His Platoon; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Article; title: a. General; title: b. Officer Qualifications; title: c. Basic Training; title: d. Administration; title: e. Psychology; title: f. Getting Ready and on the Way; title: g. Arrival and Preparation for Action; title: h. In Action; title: II. Notes on Patrolling in Jungles of Burma; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Preparations; title: 3. Comments on Tactics; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Figures 1-9. Sketches Illustrating German Tactical Use of Smoke; title: Figures 10-11. Development of German Infantry Battalion for the Attack; title: Figures 12-15. Some German Camouflage Measures; title: Figure 16. New German Heavy Tank, the Pz. Kw. 5 (Panther); title: Figure 17. German Attack Tactics in Towns and Cities; title: Figure 18. German Stake Mine (antipersonnel); title: Figure 19. Methods of Laying the German Stake Mine; title: Figures 20-26. Sketches Illustrating Japanese Bayonet Technique; title: Figures 27-29. Sketches Illustrating Japanese Small-unit Tactics; title: -----------------------------------------------------------------; title: Intelligence bulletin MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION War Department WASHINGTON 25, D.C.; title: Vol. 2 No. 6 February 1944; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Part One: Japan; title: Notes on Japanese Jungle Defense; title: Section I. Introduction; title: II. Tactics; title: 1. General; title: a. Organization of Terrain; title: b. Fire Plans; title: c. Use of Snipers; title: 2. Infantry; title: a. Advance Outposts; title: b. Company Attack; title: c. Ambushes; title: d. Use of Fire; title: e. Machine-gun Positions; title: 3. Against Tanks; title: a. General; title: b. Use of "Tank Fighters"; title: 4. Against Landing Operations; title: a. According to Observers; title: b. According to Japanese Sources; title: 5. Counterattack; title: 6. Against Parachute Troops; title: 7. Against Aircraft; title: III. Positions; title: 1. General; title: 2. Bunkers; title: 3. Pillboxes; title: a. Buna Area; title: b. New Georgia; title: c. Betio; title: d. Burma; title: 4. Dugouts and Shelters; title: a. According to Observers; title: b. According to Enemy Sources; title: 5. Blockhouses; title: 6. Weapon Emplacements, Foxholes, and Trenches; title: 7. Antiaircraft Positions; title: a. General; title: b. In the Solomon Islands; title: Section IV. Obstacles; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Wire Entanglements; title: a. Net Type; title: b. Double-apron Type; title: c. Passageways; title: 3. Movable Barriers; title: a. Barbed Type; title: b. Cheval-de-frise; title: c. Ribard; title: 4. Other Types of Barriers; title: a. Abatis; title: b. Cylindrical Wire Net; title: c. Folding Screen; title: d. Wire Snares; title: 5. Antitank Obstacles; title: a. Ditches and Steps; title: b. Land Mines; title: c. To Separate Infantry from Tanks; title: d. Other Types; title: Part Two: Germany; title: Section I. von Arnim Discusses Junior Leadership; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. "Explain the Plan"; title: 3. Tactics; title: 4. Orders and Reports; title: 5. Intercommunication; title: II. Camouflage in Sicily; title: 1. General; title: 2. Pillboxes; title: 3. Gun Positions; title: 4. Sniper Equipment; title: III. Concentrating the Fire of 81-MM Mortars; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Enemy Instructions; title: a. General; title: b. By a Section; title: c. By Two Sections or a Platoon; title: IV. Close-Quarter Fighting and Withdrawal; title: Section V Notes on German Antitank Tactics; title: 1. Antitank Methods in Russia; title: 2. Engaging Tanks at Close Range; title: 3. An Antitank Company Layout; title: VI. Training in a Parachute Machine-gun Battalion.; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Points Stressed in Training; title: Part Three: United Nations; title: The Unseen War; title: 1. What the Enemy Wants to Know; title: 2. Espionage; title: 3. Fifth Column Methods; title: 4. Loose Talk; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Japanese Machine-gun Position; title: Japanese Beach Obstacles (as seen at low tide on Betio); title: Typical Japanese Bunker; title: Front View of Typical Japanese Pillbox (Betio); title: Inside View of Japanese Pillbox or Shelter; title: Japanese Pillbox (New Guinea); title: Japanese Pillbox (New Georgia); title: Japanese Steel Pillbox (Betio); title: Typical Japanese Beach Dugout; title: Japanese Dugout (with direct entrance); title: Japanese Shelter (Betio); title: Japanese Shelter (Betio); title: Japanese Rifle or Machine-gun Emplacement (Burma); title: Typical Japanese AA Position; title: Japanese Revetment (outer circle not completed); title: Japanese Net-type of Wire Entanglement; title: Japanese Double-apron Type Wire Entanglement; title: Two Types of Passageways in Japanese Wire Entanglements; title: Japanese Movable Wire Barrier; title: Japanese Cheval-de-frise; title: Japanese Ribard (a, principle of construction; b, principle of setting up; c, principle of folding up); title: Japanese Abatis; title: Japanese Folding-screen Barrier; title: Japanese Wire Snares (a, ring-shape; b, half-moon shape; c, tangled- wire type)