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FOR THE
COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY'OFFICER
Revised and corrected edition, Xovember, 1942
Covers: Map Projections and Coordinates; Instruments;
Transit Traverse; Intersection; Resection;
Azimuth Determination.
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Adjutant General's
School
Journal Order
Blank Number
AGS BULLETIN, 12 issues $1.50
187. THE ARMY CLERK (May, 1943). A simple, thorough,
comprehensive manual, prepared especially
for the enlisted branches of the Army Administration
Schools. Large appendix of model forms .. 75
187a. INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE. Supplement to THE
ARMY CLERK (May, 1943). A useful publication
for the instructor in a service or unit school. Useful
also to the individual who desires to train himself
in clerical procedures $1.00
184. TRAVEL (April, 1943-Revised Edition). Restatement
of Army Regulations, War Department circulars,
etc., pertaining to Travel and Transportation.
Subjects arranged by functions in logical sequence.
Indexed by topics; cross-indexed to official
regulations, circulars, etc 60c
152. ORDERS (Revised to March 26, 1943-6th Edition).
How to write General and Special Orders, Bulletins
and Circulars 50c
188. BOARDS OF OFFICERS (December, 1942). 20c
174. ARMY PERSONNEL SYSTEM (December, 1942) .
. . . . . .. .. " 10c
175. GENERAL AND SPECIAL STAFFS (Deceml>pl',
1942) 10e
176. LEADERSHIP (April, 1943) 10e
177. ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARMY (March,
1943) 10c
178. SOP FOR A REGJ;\IENTAL ADJUTANT'S OF-
FICE (January, 1943) 10c
189. MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE, a Check List
(May, 1943) 10c
187b. STUDENT'S KIT (April, 1943). Materials for use
in teaching course outlined in Instructor's Guide.
Consists of: (1) Compilation of Selected Official
War Department Publications $1.50
187c. (2) Workbook for Army Clerical Procedures. 75c
102. WHAT'S THAT PLANE? A reliable guide in the
identification of American planes and those of our
enemies: Japan, Germany and Italy 25c
103. AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION. German, British, and
American planes 25c
165. AIRCRAFT SPOITER. By Lester Otto Photographs,
drawings, silhouettes, descriptions, and a
short course on the identification of aircraft. The
pictures of planes in action are especially valuable
$1.00
192. WAR PLANES OF THE AXIS. By David C. Cooke.
More than 200 photographs accompany the descriptions
of Axis planes in this book. In addition to the
pictures and descriptions of individual planes, there
are general discussions of the planes of each Axis
nation $2.75
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it does Hollywood brilliance. There is danger, of course,
there is also drudgery. The little people, at the bottom of
scale, who do the "leg work," as it is known in the new
field, are usually underpaid, and slightly dull. Our
F.B.I., G-2, and O.N.I., are included in the book, with m
about their work.
In this war, considering the handicaps of law and lack
funds, our own secret services have not done too badly.. '\
the most effective counter-espionage work, of course, is
that doesn't reach the papers.
River Lore
PILOTIN' COMES NATURAL. By Frederick Way,
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1943. 271 Pages; I
trated. $3.00.
This is a book for anybody who has ever seen a paddle-wh
steamboat chuffing her way along the !\1ississippi or One of
tributaries. Captain vVay was captivated by the romance I
river boating when he was very young, and made it his Ii
although with his background and advantages he might ha
made more of a conventional success in other fields. Steam
ing as Captain Way loved it is dying, if not dead, but
Captain, a young man still, is not a beaten man-not by a I
shot. He is at heart a packet man, and towboats are a nee
evil to him, even though towboats carry ninety-eight per ct (
of river traffic.
In this book, written with an absence of literary art I
makes it an example of a new and effective style, the au
tells how the romance of the river entered his being at an
age. After various jobs as "mud" clerk and steersman,
finally earned his pilot's license-the story of those )'
sprinkled as it is with boats, pilots, captains, financial sk
duggery, and Dutch Henry's cat, makes some of the
pleasant reading possible in this wartime world. And if
care one whoop about steamboats, don't miss this.
The Eternal Triangle
PLANE TRIGONOMETRY. By Donald H. Ballou a
Frederick H. Steen. New York: Ginn and Company, 1
214 Pages, including 5-place log tables and natural tri
nometric functions. $2.00.
This book has an excellent arrangement of the theory.
plane trigonometry with an adequate number of illustrau
exercises and problems. An appendix lists the answers. l\t
of the problems are taken from modem uses of trigonom1
in solving problems in surveying, navigation, and aviation.
A chapter on the theory and use of logarithms precedes
/lve place tables. f
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Personal Experience ~
KHAKI IS MORE THAN A COLOR. By Sergeant i\I.
E. Marsden. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Campa
1943. 282 Pages; Illustrated. $2.00.
This is an unusual book among the many "first days of
selectee" efforts. Sergeant IVlarsden writes straightforwardly
things as he sees them. There is no attempt to be funnyhumorous
situations, unburlesqued, do creep in. The ser"
doesn't attempt to solve any problems, offer advice to r
or tell his superiors how to run an army. He tells what
pened to him, on duty and off, and how it affected him.