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WAR DEPARTMENT
LOGISTICS
UNITED STATES
CHAPTER 1
SECTION I
MARCHES
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1 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL
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LOGISTICS 1-2
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LOGISTICS 2-3
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LOGISTICS 3-4
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LOGISTICS 4
Day Night
NOTES
1. By "open terrain" is meant country that is generally level,
with straight roads and comparatively few trees.
2. By "close terrain" is meant country that is generally hilly, well
wooded, and with winding roads.
3. For night movements vehicles may be grouped with closed
distances with about five vehicles in a group. The distance between
groups will determine the density. The preceding vehicle in the
group must be kept in sight.
e. March discipline.-(1) March discipline is defined as,
that quality, acquired through training and experience in
marching, which insures adequate march control; care of
equipment; obedience to march restrictions; proper conduct
and performance of duty by individuals; correct formations,
distances, and speeds; and effective use of cover.
(2) The rapidity of motor vehicle movements necessitates
a high state of individual training and march discipline.
Control is difficult and much of the responsibility for a suc-
cessful movement rests with subordinate commanders.
Much reliance must be placed upon the judgment of the in-
dividual members of the vehicle crew.
(3) March discipline includes-
(a) Proper distance between march serials or between
march units.
(b) March units clearing roads at a halt.
(c) Proper distance between vehicles.
(d) Halting in appropriate localities.
(e) Halting or moving on schedule.
(f) Knowing the route of march.
(g) Few accidents.
(h) Establishing traffic control at a halt.
(i) Alertness on the part of car commanders and drivers.
(j) Assisting flow of traffic, both civilian and military.
(k) Driving on the right of the road.
(1) Maintenance of proper speed.
(m) Shifting gears promptly.
(n) Gaining momentum when coming to a steep grade.
(o) Proper loading of vehicles.
(p) Dimming lights.
(q) Using arm or other signals for all changes of speed
or direction.
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LOGISTICS 4-5
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LOGISTICS 5
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LOGISTICS 7-10
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LOGISTICS 11-14
WATER TRANSPORT
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SECTION IV
SHELTER
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LOGISTICS 16-17
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17-18 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL
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LOGISTICS 18-21
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21-22 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL
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LOGISTICS 22-24
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CHAPTER 2
SUPPLY
Paragraphs
SECTION I. General --------------------- 30-35
II. In zone of the interior ----------------------- 36-51
III. Organization and operation of office of unit sup-
ply officer - ----------------------- 52-57
IV. In theater of operations ------------- 58-65
V. Supply functions of division special staff ---- 66-70
SECTION I
GENERAL
U 30. GENERAL,-a The basis of supply of armored units as
well as useful planning data are found in the following publi-
cations:
FM 100-10, Administration.
FM 101-10, Organization, Technical and Logistical
Data. .
FM 101-5, The Staff and Combat Orders.
FM 9-5, Ordnance Service in the Field.
FM 10-10, Quartermaster Service in Theater of Oper-
ations.
Tables of Organization, Armored Force.
Tables of Basic Allowances.
b. Detailed information concerning the functions of the
armored division service units in the procurement and dis-
tribution of supplies and furnishing of services will be found
in the following Field Manuals:
FM 17-45, The Armored Engineer Battalion.
FM 17-57, The Supply Battalion, Armored Division.
FM 17-58, The Armored Maintenance Battalion, Tac-
tical Employment.
FM 17-70, Armored Signal Company.
FM 17-80, Medical Units, Armored Force.
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SECTION II
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50-54 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL
SECTION III
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LOGISTICS 54-59
SECTION IV
IN THEATER OF OPERATIONS
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IN DIVISION ORDERS.
UNIT TRANSPORTATION
GOES TO WP AS NECESSARY
COMPLYING WITH TRAFFIC
UNIT TRANSPORTION RESTRICTIONS.
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BIVOUAC AREA
F a L DUMP
(OPERATED BY G.M.
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INCLUDING LABOR FOR
LOADING AND
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LOGISTICS 64-66
nition from tanks which they have not been able to repair
before they are evacuated by division recovery elements.
Dumps are then established in the unit service parks from
which unit ammunition trucks move ammunition to the
rallying point. This method or a similar one should be SOP
in tank and armored car units.
(9) Figure 14 shows graphically the operation of the
division ammunition supply system.
* 65. EMERGENCY USE OF DIVISION TRANSPORTATION.-Priorities
for emergency use of motor transportation in the armored
division are as follows:
a. Cargo trucks, division trains.
b. Ration and kitchen trucks.
c. Organization equipment trucks.
d. Personnel trucks.
SECTION V
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OF SUPPLY BETWEEN ASP AND UNIT
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CHAPTER 3
EVACUATION
Paragraphs
SECTION I. Vehicular casualties ------
____ _-------____ _-___ 71-72
II. Personnel casualties ___________-__.________- -___ 73-76
III. Miscellaneous ___________________-_.______ 77-80
SECTION I
VEHICULAR CASUALTIES
U 71. GENERAL.-a. Evacuation of vehicles from the battle-
field is the first step in maintenance, the details of which are
discussed in chapter 4. Battlefield evacuation cannot be
predicated on the fact that our forces will remain in posses-
sion of the battlefield. It will be habitualto evacuate vehicles
under fire, and close cooperation between forward combat
elements and maintenance personnel is essential. On the in-
genuity and ability of these advanced evacuation and mainte-
nance crews may well hinge the eventual course of the battle.
b. The division responsibility for evacuation of vehicles
ends at the division service park. Ordinarily troops from
army ordnance service to include one ordnance company
(HM) tank, one ordnance company (HM) auto and one
ordnance recovery company will be available in the army
echelon to augment the ordnance maintenance in the armored
division. These troops are furnished by the army and evacu-
ate from division parks all vehicles, the repair of which is
beyond the scope of tools and time available to division main-
tenance. Army ordnance supporting units should keep a
liaison detachment equipped with radio with the division
maintenance battalion. Army delivers repaired vehicles to
division service parks. There should be available in army
one ordnance recovery company which may be used as the
situation demands to evacuate division service parks and to
supplement wrecker and recovery elements of division main-
tenance battalions and unit maintenance companies.
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SECTION II
PERSONNEL CASUALTIES
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LOGISTICS 75-76
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HOSTILE FORCES
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OPEN WHILE OTHERS MOVE.
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LOGISTICS 76-79
SECTION III
MISCELLANEOUS
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COMBAT COMBAT
COMMAND BJ / COMMAND A
EVACUATION BY UNITS
TO PW COLLECTING POINTS
ON AXIS TO BE ANNOUNCED
DIVISION /
RESERVE
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EVACUATION BY CORPS
OR ARMY MP'S FROM
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CHAPTER 4
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LOGISTICS 82
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LOGISTICS 82-83
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84-85 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL
OPERATIONS
* 85. COMBAT ORGANIZATIONS (UNITS).-la. General.-Main-l
tenance performed by combat organizations may be grouped
into two general classifications:
(1) Scheduled preventive maintenance operations and in-
spections;
(2) Corrective, maintenance which includes adjustments,
repairs, and unit replacements made either in the accom-
plishment of (1) above or in restoring vehicles to operating
condition after a failure has occurred.
b. Scheduled maintenance.-(1) Wheeled vehicles.-
Scheduled preventive maintenance operations and inspec-
tions to be performed by operating organizations on wheeled
vehicles of all types are prescribed in AR 850-15 and FM 25-10,
and amplified in Technical Manuals pertaining to each type
of vehicle. (For list of appropriate manuals, see FM 21-6.)
(2) Track vehicles.-Scheduled preventive maintenance
operations and inspections to be performed by operating or-
ganization on track vehicles are performed as indicated be-
low:
(a) Tanks.
Daily inspection.
50-hour inspection.
100-hour inspection.
NoTE.---OO-hour inspections are performed by service troops.
(b) Half-track vehicles.
Daily inspection.
1,000-mile inspection.
3,000-mile inspection.
6,000-mile inspection.
(3) Daily tank check.-The daily check of tanks by the
tank crew is covered in FM 17-5.
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LOGISTICS 85-86
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LOGISTICS 86-89
SECTION III
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INDEX
Paragraph Page
Accidents_____________------_-_-_----- - 4 9
Ammunition _________--______-________..____ 41, 64, 67 49, 65, 70
Artillery, place in column ___--___-- ___--_ __...
.. 2 3
Automotive officer _______-_________________- - _ 89 95
ABivouacs:
Activities in_-____-- ____----- _--------- -____ 18 26
Camouflage -___________ __-------
--.----- -_ 17 25
Command post-________-- __ _____ -- _____--_ 24 29
Contaminated vehicle area -__. ______-___-_
-- 27 30
Defense of _________________-______________
-- 17, 19 25, 27
Entering and leaving __- -___ __ __-- ___-__- 5, 22 17, 28
Meeting point -_____ _________----_ -------- - 26 30
Occupation of-- ______--- _.----------- -- -- 23 29
Parking vehicles in--____________.__ ---. _.- 28 30
Requirements (characteristics) --------------- 16 24
Routes within -_______________..----------- 20 27
Use of military police - .__________---------- 21 27
Burial ---------- _---------
_ _--------------- 66 67
Camouflage ___________-----
-- --------- 17 25
Captured material ------------------------------ 78 81
Chemical ammunition, supplies, equipment_____- 70 72
Chemical officer -____.....___-- __---_____-----
-- 70 72
Classes of supply:
I______-__-__-_..------.-------------------- 37,60 45.56
II_______---------------.--------- - --------- 38,61 46,59
III -____--- __--_------------ --------------- 39,62 48,61
IV--__----.------------ ---------------- 40,63 48,64
__.._
V___---------------------------_ _ ----- 41,64 49,65
Cleaning and preserving material -_____---____-- 67 70
Column:
Close -1___-___-___--- _ __----_---------- 1 1
Open --_______-_1___-______--___________ 1 1
Rate of march___---------------------------- 2 3
Speed _____- ---------------------------- 2 3
Command post in bivouac -____-_____------ --- _ _ 24 29
Company commanders, guides -__________...----. 49 51
Conduct of march_________--------------- ------ 4 9
Contaminated vehicle area-_______-___-------- - - 27 30
Control:
March __ __
_______._-------------------- 4 9
-
-__________--_------
Traffic_ ----------- 80 86
Controlled items_---__-------------------------- 42 49
Credit items_____-------------------------.---- 43 50
Debarkation - _____________------------------- 14 23
Density____--- __-------------------------------------- 4 9
Disabled vehicles_____-------------------------- _ 4 9
Discipline, march_--------_-------------------- 4 9
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INDEX
Paragraph Page
Doctrine, supply __--------------_-_--____.__._-_ 30, 36 32, 45
Duties of supply officer -- ____s-____a-- __.---- 53 54
Halts --
___________------------____._ _-____-__ 5 17
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Paragraph Page
Salvage ---------------------------------------- 77 81
Security:
Bivouac___----------------------------- -- 17 25
Camouflage -------------------------------- 17 25
For rail movement__-------.----_----------- 11 22
On the march --------------------- ------- 4 9
Shelter:
Billets ____-----------------.---------------- 15 24
Bivouac protection ------------------------- 17, 19 25, 27
Bivouac requirements ________-------------- 16 29
Camouflage ------------------------------- 17 24
Command post____ ------ -------------------- 24 25
Contaminated vehicle area___ __-------_--- - 27 30
Entering and leaving bivouac ___----_----- 5, 22' 17, 28
General____-----------------.----------- 15 24
Meeting point____-------------_------------ 26 30
Occupation of bivouac__ --------- _--------- 23 29
Parking vehicles__-------------------------- 28 30
Routes within bivouac__ - _----------------- 20 27
Straggler posts____-------------_-- ---------- 25 30
Use of military police ------ _--------------- 21 27
Ships and equipment_-------_------------------ 13 23
Signal equipment and supplies_ ____- __--------- 68 71
Signal officer -________ ----------- 68 71
Spare parts, automotive_--------_--------------- 67 70
Speed, definition___ _----------------- --------- 2 3
Standard operating procedure, marches_______--- 2 3
Straggler posts ----------------- - - 25 30
Supply ------------------------ - _-______-_
- 30-70 32
Supply in theater of operation - . -..... 58-65 55
Supply officer, unit:
Assistance to company commanders-_____--- '55
Duties -------------------------------..--- 53 54
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Economy________ . 57 55
Maintenance of equipment _______----------- 56 55
Personnel------------------------------------ 52 54
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Records_____ _------------- 54 54
Supply organization --------------------------- 34 35
Surgeon_------------------------------- - 69 72
--
Traffic circulation and control ______________- 80 3,37
Trains_------------------------------------------ 2,35 86
-
Transportation, division, use of_______________
-- - 65 67
Water transport:
Debarkation___ .-
_..__----------------- _ 14 23
General _____-___----------------- ---------- 12 23
Suitability of ship and equipment______---- 13 23
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