Category Archives: training

Ditching a B-17 Flying Fortress at Sea

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Emergency procedures for a forced landing at sea from the Pilot’s Manual for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress: FORCED DESCENT AT SEA 1. As complete evacuation of the airplane should not take over 30 seconds, preflight practice drills should be participated … Continue reading →

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How to Fly the P-47

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

How to Fly the P-47: Pilot Familiarization War Department Training Film 107-A How to Fly the P-47: Ground Handling, Take-Off, Normal Flight and Landing War Department Training Film 107-B How to Fly the P-47: High Altitude Flight and Aerobatics War … Continue reading →

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K-14 Gyroscopic Gunsight

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

The following operating instructions for the K-14 Gyroscopic Gunsight are reproduced from the Pilot Training Manual for the Thunderbolt P-47N, Headquarters, Army Air Forces, September 1945. As you adjust the K-14 gyroscope gunsight, it automatically gives you the correct lead … Continue reading →

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65th Infantry Division at Camp Shelby

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

  The following photographic yearbook was printed in August 1944 by the 65th Infantry Division to commemorate the division’s first year of formation and training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.  TO THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 65TH INFANTRY DIVISION One … Continue reading →

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Don’t Scare Replacements

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From “Combat Lessons” No. 7 comes the following notes on leadership and replacement orientation: Replacement Instruction—the Wrong Kind A Lieutenant comments on his ominous introduction to front-line existence: “On my way to the front as an officer replacement, I met … Continue reading →

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G.I. Nightmare

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Test your aircraft recognition skills and knowledge of WW2 German aircraft with this quiz from “Antiaircraft Artillery Notes,” No. 13, January 1945. Answers after the page break.

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Warning to Observation Post Kibitzers

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

From “Combat Lessons” No. 6: Says a Captain of a Field Artillery Battalion, France: “Well-meaning infantrymen who crowd about the OP to observe the results of the firing or to steal a look through the BC telescope should be warned … Continue reading →

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Chaff

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

“Chaff can take it… you can’t! Know chaff and use it!” Ninth Air Force (IX Tactical Air Command) training poster: See Also: Flak Traps

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Don’t Do Loops in a B-17

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Don’t roll or loop your B-17 bomber. Important pilot restrictions for the B-17 Flying Fortress from the Pilot’s Manual for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress:   DON’T lower flaps at speeds in excess of 147 mph! DON’T dive in excess of … Continue reading →

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Rules are so Stupid!

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Lone_Sentry_Admin

Cartoon from the October 1944 issue of C.I.C. (Combat Information Center) published by the U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.      

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