hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Share #1 Posted April 27, 2009 "A Camera Trip Through Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland" is the latest and it shows soldiers receiving training to fix artillery guns, jeeps, tanks, etc. Be sure to upload these scans because the booklet itself is not cheap and is hard to find and even a CD will set you back a pretty-penny for shipping & handling plus the final bid if you won, that is, but here it is free for the taking, so feel free to take it! Go to http://www.archive.org/ and find more stuff like this, you cannot miss! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California [[email protected]) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #2 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 2, gives a lengthy description of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland and their role in training soldiers to send to various camps to asist the armourers, mechanics, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #3 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 3. Aberdeen Proving Ground Headquarters building and the Ordnance Replacement Training Center Headquarters building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #4 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 4. A full page showing the Military Police, every Infantryman's "friend!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #5 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 4a. "Scores of military and civilian vehicles roll out of Aberdeen every hour of the day. Here, military policemen, on guard duty at every gate, check the passes of everyone entering or leaving." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #6 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 4b. "Stop! Aberdeen's smartly-attired MP's direct traffic with all the nonchalance of New York's finest on the hottest days of summer or the most blinding blizzards of winter." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #7 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 4c. "Grinning MP's line up for a friendly photo. Althoughty they're strictly for regulations, these khaki-clad policemen have proved many times that they are for the soldier 100 percent." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #8 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 5. This pages shows "hands-on" for trainees in various shoppes to fix military vehicles, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #9 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 5a. "The technical training schools at Aberdeen suffer no lack of students. Men, skilled in every branch of Ordnance from small arms to tanks and artillery, 'graduate' almost every day in the week - and go out to the field ready for action." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #10 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 5b. "ORTC soldiers marching to the shops and classrooms." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share #11 Posted April 27, 2009 Page 5c. "The mysteries under the thick skin of the latest American tanks and gun carriages are explored by trainees in the track vehicle section of the technical school. Troop mechanics leave Aberdeen and go directly to the field for service or additional training with fighting units." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #12 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 6. The artillery section is shown with hands-on training for recruits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #13 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 6a. "A class in the artillery section studies this big gun minutely. They learn to strip them as completely as they do their rifles, which is one reason why it is hard to stump these Ordnance Technicians when they are up against a problem in the field." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #14 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 6b. "An artillery class begins taking down a field piece." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #15 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 6c. "ORTC students take their turns working on this 37 mm. anti-tank gun. When they get down to business they will have it in peieces on the floor of this Artillery shop. Then they'll put it back together again. It's the best way to find out just makes it tick." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #16 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 6d. At APG these students overhaul big guns like this one in the shops. Later they'll do the same thing under battle conditions." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #17 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 7. Shop trucks making ordnance repairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #18 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 7a. "Three types of shop trucks are lined up in this picture. One is a carpenter shop, another a machine shop and the third a welding shop." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #19 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 7b. "Spot-welding under field condition is performed by this soldier on bivouac. Shop truck stands in background." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #20 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 7c. "Interior of a shop truck. Complete machine shops on wheels like this one at Aberdeen are equiped to follow the fast retreating Germens, repairing guns and fighting equipment almost on the line of battle." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #21 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 7d. "Ordnance repair shops on wheels, like the one shown at APG, are vital to our troop movement. With these trucks we can repair and maintain almost every type of fighting quipment for immediate re-use on the front line." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hhbooker2 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share #22 Posted April 29, 2009 Page 8. "The 'Commando' obstacle course is a tough grind for raw rookies, but a few workouts on the run will develop muscles men never knew they had, and bring back to many many soldiers the wing they thought had lost in soft jobs in civilian life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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