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While looking for something else on the interwebs late last night, I found myself here.
Did a search for "rifle", and found the Garand training videos I was looking for.
While downloading the videos, I looked down the page and found the manual that goes along with the original training films.
How to Shoot the U.S. Army Rifle - Infantry Journal
Since previous searches I had made were strictly looking for those films I had never seen what else was available.
Needless to say, I did not get to bed until the wee hours and now have more historical books to read than I know what to do with.
Here's a sample, all free, in multiple formats.
The American rifle; a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle - Whelen, Townsend, 1877-1961
Suggestions to military riflemen - Whelen, Townsend, 1877-1961
A system of target practice. For the use of troops when armed with the musket, rifle-musket, rifle, or carbine (1862)
A British rifle man; the journals and correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle brigade, during the Peninsular war and the campaign of Waterloo (1899)
Compound guns, many-barrelled rifle batteries, machine guns or mitrailleurs (1874)
Infantry Drill Regulations: The Manual of Arms, Adapted to the Magazine Rifle, Caliber .30 (1897)
Technical training handbook of the Browning automatic rifle model of 1918 (air cooled) (1918)
Combined infantry and cavalry drill regulations for automatic machine rifle, caliber .30, model of 1909 (1915)
Description and instructions for the use of rifle and hand grenades ... May 18, 1911 (1917)
United States rifles and machine guns : a detailed account of the methods used in manufacturing the Springfield, 1903 model service rifle; also descriptions of the modified Enfield rifle and three types of machine guns (1917)
Small arms instructors manual : an intensive course, including official "C special course" ; U.S. rifle, model 1917 ; U.S. rifle, model 1903 (Springfield) ; U.S. rifle, model 1898 (Kraag) ; automatic pistol, model 1911 revolvers, cal's. .45 and .38 ; official firing courses ; designation of targets ; fire direction and control ; use of cover (c1918)
A refutation of the charges against the Confederate States of America of having authorized the use of explosive and poisoned musket and rifle balls during the late Civil War of 1861-65 [microform] - Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917
Cartridge manufacture; a treatise covering the manufacture of rifle cartridge cases, bullets, powders, primers and cartridge clips, and the designing and making of the tools used in connection with the production of cartridge cases and bullets - Hamilton, Douglas T. (Douglas Thomas), b. 1885
At first I was skeptical of Google scanning "all the books in the world". This sample of what's possible is starting to change my mind.
__________________
While looking for something else on the interwebs late last night, I found myself here.
Did a search for "rifle", and found the Garand training videos I was looking for.
While downloading the videos, I looked down the page and found the manual that goes along with the original training films.
How to Shoot the U.S. Army Rifle - Infantry Journal
Since previous searches I had made were strictly looking for those films I had never seen what else was available.
Needless to say, I did not get to bed until the wee hours and now have more historical books to read than I know what to do with.
Here's a sample, all free, in multiple formats.
The American rifle; a treatise, a text book, and a book of practical instruction in the use of the rifle - Whelen, Townsend, 1877-1961
Suggestions to military riflemen - Whelen, Townsend, 1877-1961
A system of target practice. For the use of troops when armed with the musket, rifle-musket, rifle, or carbine (1862)
A British rifle man; the journals and correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle brigade, during the Peninsular war and the campaign of Waterloo (1899)
Compound guns, many-barrelled rifle batteries, machine guns or mitrailleurs (1874)
Infantry Drill Regulations: The Manual of Arms, Adapted to the Magazine Rifle, Caliber .30 (1897)
Technical training handbook of the Browning automatic rifle model of 1918 (air cooled) (1918)
Combined infantry and cavalry drill regulations for automatic machine rifle, caliber .30, model of 1909 (1915)
Description and instructions for the use of rifle and hand grenades ... May 18, 1911 (1917)
United States rifles and machine guns : a detailed account of the methods used in manufacturing the Springfield, 1903 model service rifle; also descriptions of the modified Enfield rifle and three types of machine guns (1917)
Small arms instructors manual : an intensive course, including official "C special course" ; U.S. rifle, model 1917 ; U.S. rifle, model 1903 (Springfield) ; U.S. rifle, model 1898 (Kraag) ; automatic pistol, model 1911 revolvers, cal's. .45 and .38 ; official firing courses ; designation of targets ; fire direction and control ; use of cover (c1918)
A refutation of the charges against the Confederate States of America of having authorized the use of explosive and poisoned musket and rifle balls during the late Civil War of 1861-65 [microform] - Hayden, Horace Edwin, 1837-1917
Cartridge manufacture; a treatise covering the manufacture of rifle cartridge cases, bullets, powders, primers and cartridge clips, and the designing and making of the tools used in connection with the production of cartridge cases and bullets - Hamilton, Douglas T. (Douglas Thomas), b. 1885
At first I was skeptical of Google scanning "all the books in the world". This sample of what's possible is starting to change my mind.
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