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75% is what we have now. 3.484 field manuals are now in the library, which is 75% of 4.614, which is the number of all field manuals of which we have knowledge so far. The upload to the MOS-department is happening as I am typing this, and the FMs will be added next week [ ]
Today we re uploading another 200 MOS Field Manuals to the library, which brings the total to a little over 3400 of the 4500 FMs we know of as today. We got a bit distracted by discovering a nice way to download full documents from yet a different source, which is yielding a lot of high-resolution-scans [ ]
Just a short update: Another 99 (so not quite a decime) Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) field manuals have been added to the library, bringing the total to over 3100, with hundreds still left to be processed. As usual, you will find them at https://sites.google.com/view/us-army-mos-fms
Another research trip brought us to the Stanford Library, which hosts links to more than 1500 FMs in its catalogue. This enabled us to add 79 new MOS (Military Occupation Speciality) field manuals to the collection, as well as an yet uncounted number of other FMs which still need to be processed. Browsing through the [ ]
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 [ ]
This is the second part of the large update announced yesterday. Bsides the FMs defining MOS skill levels and knowledge, the new google books cache also yielded a large amount of FMs from between 1940 and 1982, which enabled us to full some gaps. Full statistics again on the About page, but we now haver [ ]
Google Books scanned a large amount of books from the New York Public Library, amongst them hundreds of FMs. However, since machines are now more important than humans, the scans were simply dumped into the cloud all named identical, often several volumes clustered together in single files, no keywords, no categories, nothing. Humans might [ ]
day we have another first: The first two FMs exclusively available on this site, contributed by a reader! We are very grateful for Scott to have scanned FM 5-31 Use and Installation of Boobytraps (1956) and FM 21-50 Ranger Training and Ranger Operations (1962) from our Missing list, and provided the scans to us. We [ ]
Yet another batch of field manuals, closing more gaps in the Cold war department. About 20 new manuals, from FM 5-31 Land Mine Warfare (1949) to FM 44-1 Antiaircraft Artillery Employment (1952), bringing the total in Cold War to 1458, if I am counting correctly. Yes, thats not significantly more than before, I had to [ ]
The US Army Field Manual Collection has grown again, and is slowly being enlarged into an Online Doctrine Library . which means other documents than field manuals are being prepared for this year. For now, we had to split the collection into three parts: US Army Field Manuals 1930 (the year they started being numbered) [ ]