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U.S. Army Manuals from World War II

• Field Manuals
• Technical Manuals
• Training Manuals, Miscellaneous, and more

U.S. Army in World War II — Many official histories

World War II on the World Wide Web. This is an enormous archive of historical material, organized by theatre of operations, country, and branch of service.

Manuals, Training Films, and Government Documentaries at archive.org

• Video: Marksmanship With the M1 Rifle — Preparatory Training

• Book: How to Shoot the U.S. Army Rifle, companion to the above film.

• Video: Rifle — U.S. Cal. .30 M1 — Principles of Operation (1943)

• Video: The Armalite AR-10. This is a promotional film for the Armalite AR-10, the rifle that led to the M-16. It features field-stripping, the belt-fed version, and Eugene Stoner running onto a beach firing from the hip.

• Video: The Guns at Springfield (DOD, 1971), U.S. Department of Defense film on the development of the U.S. Army's small arms in a tour through the Springfield Armory Museum.

• Video: Commence Firing (National Archives and Records Administration). "From colonial days, marksmanship has been an American tradition. In this film presentation, television audiences will visit the Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, established in 1794. Gunsmiths here have created the basic weapons for our fighting forces. The Armory is the small arms center of the U.S. forces. Here, are concentrated the Ordnance Corps facilities for experimental development of hand weapons, including rifles and automatic weapons--also for pilot line production. Included in "Commence Firing," is footage of the Camp Perry, Ohio World Series of Marksmanship, sponsored jointly by the National Rifle Association and the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice."

• Video: Battle of Midway (NARA, 1942). From the Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

• Video: Big Picture: The Fight for Vietnam

• Video: The Battle for the Beaches. Navy film of training and fighting to capture beaches in the Pacific and European theatres.

• Video: Other movies in the FedFlix collection

• Video: M1 Garand .30-06 Ice Block Shoot

• Book: SMALL ARMS INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL, An Intensive Course, including 1917 Enfield, 1903 Springfield, 1898 Krag, M1911 pistol, revolvers, etc., compiled by the Small Arms Instruction Corps, 1918.

• UNITED STATES RIFLES AND MACHINE GUNS, Fred Colvin and Ethan Viall, 1917.

Mosin-Nagant References

• The M1891/30 rifle, the M1938 carbine, plus lots more details at the 7.62x54r.net site.

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Harrington Products makes high quality replacement firing pins, extractors and other parts for the Czech Česká Zbrojovka vzor 52 or ČZ vz. 52 pistol.

This page has a very large collection of firearms manuals.

If you are operator enough, maybe you could handle the 4chan /k/ weapons forum. No mall ninjas, Cawadooty fanatics, or Airsoft fanboys.

Survivalist Dating Sites — Find that special someone to share your paranoia:

• Survivalist Singles
• Survivalist Dating Community
• PrepperDating.com
• Doomsday Dating

Here are some useful links to pages about anodizing aluminum:

• Coatings and Fabrication magazine has a good explanation.
• The Wikipedia page is useful, as usual.
• The Electrochemistry Encyclopedia has far more detail.
• The American Radio Relay League published home enthusiast how-to articles in their magazine QST back in: May 1950 (with a clarification in the July 1950 issue), October 1967, and April 1968. ARRL members can access all past QST articles.

Did you know that Ronald Reagan and, for most of its history, the NRA worked to control guns? And that the Black Panthers were the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement and fierce advocates of the right to bear loaded weapons in public? Things were very different before the early 1980s, read the article "The Secret History of Guns" in The Atlantic for details. It's a excerpt from Adam Winkler's book Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.

Other technical topics

• Audio/video format conversion, X-ray film scanning, oscilloscope repair

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