Intelligence Bulletin
Subtitle: Vol 2. No. 9 May 1944 and Vol. 2 No. 10 June 1944
Publisher: United States. War Department
Published: 1944-05
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: Intelligence Bulletin Vol 2. No. 9 May 1944 and Vol. 2 No. 10 June 1944; title: Intelligence Bulletin MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION War Department Washington 25, D. C.; title: VOL II, NO. 9 May 1944; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Part One: Japan; title: Section I. Japanese Positions in the Defense; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. As Seen on the Marshall Islands; title: 3. As Seen in Burma; title: 4. According to Enemy Sources; title: a. General; title: b. Two Squad Positions; title: c. A Platoon Position; title: d. Two Company Positions; title: II. Japanese Defensive Tactics; title: 1. General; title: 2. Use of Fire Power; title: 3. Counterattack; title: 4. Antipatrol Measures; title: III. How a Fiji Patrol Got 47 Japs Without Loss; title: IV. Supplementary Notes on Enemy Booby Traps; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. In the Southwest Pacific; title: a. Grenade-discharger Shell and Grenade; title: b. General-purpose Bombs; title: 3. On Kiska; title: a. Piece of Bamboo; title: b. Phonograph; title: c. Radio; title: d. Antitank Mines; title: 4. In Burma; title: a. General; title: b. "Tin-can" Method; title: c. "Tree-fork" Method; title: d. Trip Wires; title: V. Japanese Night Attacks; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Treatise; title: VI. How the Japanese Mark Trails for Night Use; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Instructions; title: VII. Supplementary Notes on Japanese Camouflage; title: 1. General; title: 2. According to Japanese Sources; title: a. Nets; title: b. Screens; title: c. Turf; title: d. Coloring Materials; title: 3. As Seen on Makin Island; title: a. Natural Cover; title: b. Cut Palm Fronds; title: c. Deceptive Painting; title: d. Dummy Installations; title: VIII. Some Japanese Ruses; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Examples of Ruses; title: IX. Japanese Explanation of 'Duty' and 'Spirit'; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Lecture; title: X. Japanese Army Rations; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Standard Rations; title: 3. Supplementary Rations; title: 4. Food Containers; title: Part Two: Germany; title: Section I. German Field Defenses Observed in Italy; title: II. Commanders, Observers Discuss Enemy Tactics; title: III. German Mine Warfare and Booby Traps (Italy); title: 1. General; title: 2. Types of Mines Encountered; title: 3. Notes on New Enemy Methods; title: a. Smoke-warning Booby Trap; title: b. New Trip-wire Arrangement; title: c. Booby-trapping Telephone Wire; title: d. Laying Tellermines; title: e. Laying S-Mines; title: IV. German Soldier Tells of the Battle for Agira; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Action at Agira, as a German Saw It; title: V. Organization of German Tank-Hunting Detachments; title: 1. Detachments of 10 Men; title: 2. Detachments of 13 Men; title: VI. German Efforts to Break United Nations Security; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Enemy Use of Captured Papers; title: 3. Problem of German Interrogation; title: VII. German Views on Use of the MG42; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. As a Light Machine Gun; title: 3. As a Heavy Machine Gun; title: VIII. German Trip-Wire Alarm; title: IX. Stick Grenade, Model 24, as a Defensive Weapon; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Figure 1. Japanese Squad Position; title: Figure 2. Japanese Platoon Position; title: Figure 3. Japanese Company Position; title: Figure 4. Japanese Company Position; title: Figure 5. Japanese Booby Trap (combining grenade-discharger shell and grenade); title: Figure 6. Japanese Booby Trap (using piece of bamboo); title: Figure 7. Japanese Booby Trap (utilizing a phonograph); title: Figure 8. Japanese Booby Trap (using land mines and picric acid blocks); title: Figure 9. Japanese Booby Traps (a. utilizing a tin can and British No. 36 hand grenade; b. using tree fork and grenade); title: Figure 10. Japanese Portable Camouflage Screen; title: Figure 11. Japanese Camouflage (showing use of natural cover on Makin beach); title: Figure 12. Japanese Camouflage (showing use of growing tree to conceal building on Makin); title: Figure 13. Japanese Camouflage (showing use of cut palm fronds); title: Figure 14. Japanese Dummy Gun Position (Makin); title: Figure 15. German Machine-gun Position (front view); title: Figure 16. German Machine-gun Position (rear entrance); title: Figure 17. Entrance to German Dugout in Rolling Terrain; title: Figure 18. Entrance to German Two-room Dugout in a Hillside; title: Figure 19. German Dugout in the Side of a Cliff (used for storing supplies); title: Figure 20. Another German Dugout in the Side of a Cliff (used as living quarters); title: Figure 21. New German Trip-wire Arrangement; title: Figure 22. German Method of Laying Tellermines in Dirt Roads and Trails; title: Figure 23. A German Antipersonnel Mine Belt; title: Figure 24. Typical German Disposition of a 10-man Tank-hunting Detachment in Foxholes; title: Figure 25. German Sliding Mine; title: Figure 26. German Pressure Bar; title: Figure 27. Typical German Disposition of a 13-man Tank-hunting Detachment along a Road; title: Figure 28. German Trip-wire Alarm; title: Figure 29. German Stick Hand Grenade with Shrapnel Ring; title: -----------------------; title: Intelligence Bulletin MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION War Department Washington 25, D. C. VOL II, NO. 10 June 1944; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Part One: Germany; title: Section I. U. S. Soldiers Describe Enemy Methods in Italy; title: II. Ground Tactics of German Paratroops; title: III. How Paratroops Clear Fields for Gliders; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Reconnaissance for Suitable Fields; title: 3. Construction of Landing Fields; title: IV. New German Rifle for Paratroopers; title: V. Rations as a Factor in Paratroop Efficiency; title: VI. A German's Reaction to a British Night Attack; title: VII. German Tank Platoons Operating as Points; title: 1. Composition; title: 2. Communication; title: a. Within the Point Platoon; title: b. Within the Armored Regiment; title: 3. On the March; title: a. Combat Vehicles; title: b. Supply Column; title: VIII. New German Emphasis on Salvaging Materiel; title: IX. Some Notes on German Intelligence Methods; title: 1. Interrogation of Prisoners; title: 2. Signal Security and Interception; title: X. German Multipurpose Carbide Lantern; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Variety of Uses; title: 3. Method of Operation with Carbide; title: 4. Defective Burning; title: 5. Accessories; title: Part Two: Japan; title: Section I. Japanese Tank Tactics; title: 1. General; title: 2. Using Three Tank Battalions; title: 3. Use of Tanks on Tarawa; title: II. Japanese Antiaircraft and Coastal Defenses; title: 1. General; title: a. As to Location; title: b. As to Construction; title: c. As to Patterns; title: d. As to Camouflage; title: 2. Examples of Positions; title: a. Six-gun Heavy Battery (Attu); title: b. Combination of Batteries (Burma); title: c. Combination of Batteries (Kolomban-gara); title: d. Light Battery on Mounds; title: e. Heavy AA-Coastal Defense Battery; title: f. Three-gun AA-Coastal Defense Battery; title: III. Two AA/AT Positions; title: 1. General; title: 2. Machine-cannon Battery Position; title: 3. Antiaircraft Battery Position; title: IV. How a Combat Patrol Captured Two Japanese; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Narrative; title: V. Japanese Intelligence and Security Measures; title: 1. General; title: 2. Enemy Views on Handling Prisoners; title: 3. Burying Arms and Equipment; title: 4. Standards for Censoring Mail; title: VI. Improvised Land Mine Used by Japanese; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Description; title: VII. Japanese Hints for the Individual Soldier; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The Treatise; title: VIII. Morale, Characteristics of Japanese Soldiers; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. A Lieutenant Speaks Out; title: 3. Death and the Japanese Soldier; title: 4. Miscellaneous Briefs; title: Part Three: United Nations; title: Section I. Souvenir Hunting Is Still a Problem; title: II. Security Notes; title: 1. Rumors; title: 2. Sense and Censorship; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: Figure 1. German Improvised Landing Field for Gliders; title: Figure 2. New German Paratrooper's Rifle; title: Figure 3. German Multipurpose Carbide Lantern; title: Figure 4. Japanese Employment of Three Tank Battalions; title: Figure 5. Dead Space around Japanese Model 2595 Light Tank; title: Figure 6. Japanese Tank Revetment (Tarawa); title: Figures 7-12. Japanese Antiaircraft Positions; title: Figure 13. Japanese Machine-cannon Battery Position; title: Figure 14. Japanese Antiaircraft Battery Position; title: Figure 15. Diagram of Ambush by U. S. Patrol; title: Figure 16. Japanese Improvised Land Mine 76