Engineer Field Notes (1918)

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American Expeditionary Forces. Engineer Field Notes (1918); 383 pages, 245 illus.  Price 40.00 {Item No.1566} [An exceptionally detailed collection of WWI military field engineering notes printed at the end of WWI by A.E.F.]

Topography

• Engineer Field Notes No.1:  Topography No.1:  Instructions for Preparation of Engineer Drawings (30 March 1918); 6 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-01} [Includes: Size of sheet, Character of work, Style of Lettering, Title, Office Data, Scales, Conventional, Signs and Abbreviations]
• Engineer Field Notes No.18:  Topography No.2:  Metric Units and Equivalents (27 May 1918); 6 pages  Price .50  {Item No.1566-02} [Includes: Metric Units: Length, Area, Volume, Weight, Cubic Measure, Length, Area, Volume, Weight, Pressures; Conventional Approximate Rules]
• Engineer Field Notes No.29:  Topography No.3:  Locations by Map Coordinates (3 July 1918); 2 pages  Price .50  {Item No.1566-03}  [Includes: French System of Coordinates, Methods to be used by the A.E.F.]

Bridges

• Engineer Field Notes No.4:  Bridges No.1:  Pile and Trestle Bents (16 April 1918}; 21 pages, 10 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-04}  [Includes: General Remarks: Use, Trestle bents versus pile bents; Standard Types: Considerations affecting design, Spacing of bents, General description of standard types, Permissable Modifications, The types adopted are as follows; Pile Bents: Selection and preparation of piles for driving, Pile Drivers, Driving piles with drop hammer pile drivers, Driving piles with water jet, Determination of point when driving shall cease, Framing pile bents; Trestle Bents: Foundations, Example, Prevention of Scour, Framing Trestle Bents, Erection of trestle bents; Placing floor system on pile and trestle bents]
• Engineer Field Notes No.52:  Bridges No.1-A:  Bill of Material for Standard Trestle Bridges (16 November 1918); 4 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-05}
• Engineer Field Notes No.5:  Bridges No.2:  Maintenance of Highway Bridges (1 May 1919); 11 pages  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-06}  [Includes: Inspection of Bridges: General remarks, General condition, Floor system, Timber supports for superstructure, Masonry supports for superstructure, Steel and wooden trusses and griders, Masonry and bridges; Repairs: General remarks, General conditions, Floor system, Timber supports for superstructure, Masonry supports for superstucture, Steel and wooden trusses and griders, Masonry and bridges; Report of bridge instructions]
• Engineer Field Notes No.7:  Bridges No.3:  Approaches and Abutments of Military Bridges (16 April 1918); 9 pages, 9 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-07}  [Includes: Approaches; Abutments: General, Bank seats, Bridge seat, Footings, Connection between bridge and approach, Protection of bank beneath abutment, Abutments for standard bridges]
• Engineer Field Notes No.8:  Bridges No.4:  Simple Stringer Bridges (16 April 1918); 12 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-08}  [Includes: General, Floor system: Standardization, Floor planks, Curbs, Hand rails, Nailing stripes, Stringers; Selection of Stringers: General, Selection of stringers by computation, Selection of stringers by graphical methods for standard loads, Selection of stringers by graphical methods for all loads]
• Engineer Field Notes No.10:  Bridges No.5:  Piers (30 April 1918); 11 pages, 16 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-09}  [Includes: Use, Masonry and concrete piers, Standard pile piers, Standard trestle piers, Wooden crib piers, Steel cribs]
• Engineer Field Notes No.11:  Bridges No.6 (1 May 1918); 6 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-10}  [Includes: Strutted Beam Bridges: Use, Design; Trussed Beam Bridges: Description, King pos trussed beam; Keyed or Compound Beams: Description, Example of Use of Table]
• Engineer Field Notes No.45:  Bridges No.7:  Portable Artillery Bridges (12 October 1918); 2 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-11}  [Includes plans and bill of material for building it]
• Engineer Field Notes No.46:  Bridges No.8:  Canvas Type Portable Foot Bridge (16 September 1918); 8 pages, 12 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-12}  [Includes: Composition of units, Loading, Organization of erection detail, Assembly of boats, Placing cable, Launching, Anchorage, Finishing the bridge, In shallow water, Time required for erection]
• Engineer Field Notes No.48:  Bridges No.9:  Weights and Dimensions of R.R. Artillery, Tanks, Field Artillery, Escort Wagon and Motor Trucks (4 November 1918); 2 pages, 2 tables  Price .50  {Item No.1566-13}

Railroads and Roads

• Engineer Field Notes No.14:  Roads No.1:  Military Roads in Forward Areas (2 May 1918); 9 pages, 6 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-14}  [Includes: General: Object, Types, Definitions, Materials, Drainage, Base and foundation, Wearing surface, General Design; Macadam Roads: Construction, Widening macadam roads, Converting plank or corduroy roads to macadam; Plank Roads: Construction; Corduroy Roads; Causes of failure; Maintenance: Ruts or holes, Shell holes, Mine craters; Military Roads Standard Cross Sections
• Engineer Field Notes No.37:  Railroads and Roads No.2:  Principles of Light Railway Construction (17 September 1918); 10 pages, 8 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-15}  [Includes: Use, Advantages; Principles of Construction: Location, Alignment, Grades, Grading, Culverts, Bridges, Track, Table: Standard Track Section - Steel Ties, Table: Quatities of Material for One Kilometer Single Track, Ballast, Road Crossing, Clearances, Sidings, Maintenance]

Field Fortification

• Engineer Field Notes No.2:  Field Fortification No.1:  Trench Profiles (18 April 1918); 6 pages, 7 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-16}  [Includes: Necessity for Standard Profile, Types Adopted, Fundamental Dimensions, Nomemclature]
• Engineer Field Notes No.3:  Field Fortification No.2:  Standard "A" Frames; 1 pages, 2 illus. Price .50  {Item No.1566-17}
• Engineer Field Notes No.12:  Field Fortification No.3:  Trench Drainage (1 May 1918); 6 pages, 8 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-18}  [Includes: General, In constructing trenches, Maintenance of drainage system, Flooring of trenches, Sumps, Pumps]
• Engineer Field Notes No.13:  Field Fortification No.4:  The Organization of the Ground for the Defense (24 August 1918); 33 pages, 6 illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.1566-19}  [Includes: Part I: General Principles: General characteristics of combat, Characteristics of the attack, Characteristics of the defense; Part II. The elements of a defensive position: Positions, Distribution of troops in a battle position, Lines, Characteristics of the various lines, Defensive areas, Combat groups, Strong points, Centers of resistance, Subsectors, Sectors, Defensive zones, Trenches; Part III. Procedure in organizing a position for defense: General selection and allotment of positions to be defended, General choice of position, Location of details of preliminary work, Fig.5  Regimental sub-sector showing distribution of troops and preliminary work in 1st battle position; Shelters, communications and general development of the position, Summary of procedure, Fig.6 Regimental sub-sector showing completed organization of 1st battle position; Time and labor to complete]
• Engineer Field Notes No.14:  Field Fortification No.5:  Standard Entrance for Cave Shelters (7 May 1918); 18 pages, 15 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-20}  [Includes: Requirements of satisfactory entrances: Number, Protection, Ease of entrance and exit, Concealment, Exclusion of rain and trench water, Simplicity of construction; Standard Approaches to Entrances: Approaches from reverse slopes; Standard Inclines: Type 1. Standard sets normal to slope, Type 2: Standard sets vertical, Type 3: French sets normal to slope, Type 4: French set vertical (standard French types), Relative advantages and disadvantages for Type 1 and 2, Conditions under which Types 3 and 4 should be employed]
• Engineer Field Notes No.16:  Field Fortification No.6:  Sectional Wooden Shelter (20 May 1918); 5 pages, illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-21}  [Includes: Use, Description, Weight, Plans and material required]
• Engineer Field Notes No.19:  Field Fortification No.7:  Trench Traces (6 June 1918); 5 pages, 8 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-22}  [Includes: Necessity for standard traces, General requirements, Types adopted, Intersections]
• Engineer Field Notes No.42:  Field Fortification No.7-A:  The Octagonal Trace of Trenches (8 September 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-23}
• Engineer Field Notes No.20:  Field Fortification No.8:  Overhead Cover for Dugouts (31 May 1918); 9 pages, 1 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-24}  [Includes: Object, Factors affecting safety of overhead cover; Artillery fire to be resisited: Number and destructive power of German projectiles, Table 1: Usual types of German artillery and projectiles of maximum destructive effect, Projectiles against which shelter must be provided; Material of which the protective cover is composed: Classification, Undisturbed ground, Table 2: Thickness of virgin ground required in feet, Artificial substitutes, Table 3: Table of equivalent factors for calculating amount of cover required for protection against shell fire; Arrangement of successive layers: Importance, Component layers; Interior construction]
• Engineer Field Notes No.23:  Field Fortification No.9:  Camouflage (6 June 1918); 18 pages, 11 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-25}  [Includes: General: Definition, Means of detection, Location of military works, Execution of camouflage, Dummy positions; Principles of Camouflage: Forms, Shadow, Texture, Colors; Practice of Camouflage: Tracks, Artillery positions, Machine gun positions, Observation posts, Trenches and accessory works, Gas projectors, Camps, cantonments and bivouacs, "Chinese Attacks"; Camouflage Material]
• Engineer Field Notes No.24:  Field Fortification No.10:  Trench Construction (25 June 1918); 15 pages, 8 illus.  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-26}  [Includes: General, Planning: Preliminary reconnissance, Estimates, Requisitions for tools and working parties; Tracing: General, Dimensions, Tracing with tracing tape, Tracing by using stakes and stones, Tracing by extending men on the line; Execution: Issing tools, Guiding party to work, Organization, Method of conducting work, Distribution of men on the work, Form: Requistion for working party]
• Engineer Field Notes No.26:  Field Fortification No.11:  Defense of Approach Trenches (25 June 1918); 2 pages, 2 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-27}
• Engineer Field Notes No.27:  Field Fortification No.12:  Underground Water and Its Relation to Field Works (27 June 1918); 6 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-28}  [Includes: General, Saturation surface layer, Ground water, Water bearing horizons, Faults, Summary]
• Engineer Field Notes No.28:  Field Fortification No.13:  Revetment (3 July 1918); 8 pages, 5 illus.  Price 1.00 {Item No.1566-29}  [Includes: Retaining wall types, Superficial types, Reveting material]
• Engineer Field Notes No.30:  Field Fortification No.14:  Standard Materials for Cave Shelter Construction (18 July 1918); 13 pages, 20 illus.  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-30} [Includes: American Standard Materials, Uses; French Standard Materials: List, Uses]
• Engineer Field Notes No.31:  Field Fortification No.15:  Principles of Shelter Organization (31 October 1918); 37 pages, 28+ illus.  Price 4.00 {Item No.1566-31}  [Includes: General, Light Shelters, Cut and Cover Shelters: Use, Types, Construction; Cave Shelters: General Principles, Types, Construction; Drainage; Camouflages; Camouflage; Gas Protection; Bomb Protection; Bunks]
• Engineer Field Notes No.47:  Field Fortification No.15-A:  Bills of Material for Shelter Construction (31 October 1918); 10 pages  Price 1.00  {Item No.1566-32}  [Includes: Light Shelters; Cave Shelters: Entrances, Gallery, Chambers, Complete Shelters]
• Enigineer Field Notes No.32:  Field Fortification No.16:  Trenches Accessories (18 September 1918); 11 pages, 16 pages  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-33}  [Includes: Sentinels Posts, Sniper's Posts, Ammunition and Grenade Boxes, Signs: Names, Signboards, Location; Ladder and Steps: Sortie Ladders, Steps; Latrines: Location, Number, Types; Telephone Lines: In communication trenches, In special trenches]
• Engineer Field Notes No.33:  Field Fortification No.17:  Emplacements for Automatic Weapons (18 September 1918); 12 pages, 11 illus.  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-34}  [Includes: Machine Gun Emplacements: Standard dimensions for all emplacement, Shell hole emplacement, Emplacement with splinter proof cover, Reinforced concrete emplacement, Automatic Rifle Emplacement, Dimensions of Automatic Weapons]
• Engineer Field Notes No.34:  Field Fortification No.18:  Gas Protection for Dugouts (22 August 1918); 5 pages, 6 illus.  Price .50 {Item No.1566-35}
• Engineer Field Notes No.35:  Field Fortification No.19:  Wire Entanglement Drills (4 October 1918); 6 pages, illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-36}
• Engineer Field Notes No.38:  Field Fortification No.20:  Obstacles against tanks (21 September 1918); 2 pages, 1 illus.  Price .50  {Item No.1566-37} [Includes: Improved natural obstacles, Artificial obstacles]

Organization and Equipment

• Engineer Field Notes No.6:  Organization and Equipment No.1:  Road Spaces and War Strength of Units (AEF 1918); 1 pages, 1 large table  Price .50  {Item No.1566-38}
• Engineer Field Notes No.17:  Organization and Equipment No.2:  Equipment of Engineer Train (AEF 1918); 2 pages  Price .50  {Item No.1566-39}
• Engineer Field Notes No.21:  Organization and Equipment No.3:  Engineer Equipment of a Sapper Regiment (AEF 1918); 6 pages  Price .50 {Item No.1566-40}  [Includes: Engineer Wagons in Regiment: Company Tool Wagons (Limber and Caisson type): Carpenters' Equipment and Supplies, Demolition Equipment and Supplies, Drafting Equipment and Supplies (in one wagon only), Miscellaneous Equipment and Supplies, Office Equipment and Supplies (in two wagons only), Photographic Equipment Supplies (in one wagon only), Reconnassiance Equipment and Supplies, Pioneer Equipment and Supplies; Company Pack Outfits: Pack No.1, Packs No.2 or 3, Pack No.4, Pack No.5; Battalion Tool Wagon (Escort type): Blacksmith Equipment and Supplies; Regimental Tool Wagon (Escort type): Map Reproduction Equipment and Supplies; Regimental Tool Wagon (Spring type): Drafting Equipment and Supplies, Miscellaneous Equipment and Supplies, Photographic Equipment and Supplies, Reconnaissance Equipment and Supplies, Surveying Equipment and Supplies]
• Engineer Field Notes No.39:  Organization and Equipment No.4:  Load Tables of Front Line Equipment Material (4 October 1918); 1 page, 1 large table  Price .50 {Item No.1566-41}  [Includes: various weights per units of construction equipment and materials like cement, etc.]

Duties of Engineers

• Engineer Field Notes No.25:  Duties of Engineers in Mobile Warfare (17 June 1918); 14 pages  Price 1.50  {Item No.1566-42} [Includes: Engineer troops with the division, General conditions affecting the work, General preliminary measures to be taken, Probable employment in various situations, Reconnaissance, Hasty organization of the ground, Demolitions and obstacles, Supply of engineer tools and materials, Shelter and water supply, Summary]
• Engineer Field Notes No.44:  Duties of Engineers No.2:  Duties and Relations of Engineers (30 August 1918); 19 pages  Price 2.00 {Item No.1566-43}  [Includes: 1. Duties of Engineer Officers: A. Duties of the Chief Engineer of an Army, B. Duties of the Chief Engineer of a Corps, C. Duties of the Division Engineer; II. The Employment of Engineer Troops, A. Army Engineer Troops, Army mining troops, Amry water supply troops, Army electrical and mechanical troops, Army general construction troops, Army engineer supply troops, Army topographical troops, Army ranging troops, Army light railway, road and quarry troops, Army service battalions, Army anti-aircraft searchlight troops, Army camouflage troops, Army ponton and bridge park, Army pionneer regiments of infantry; B. Corps Engineer troops: Corps engineer regiment, Corps ponton and bridge park, Corps pioneer regiment of infantry; C. Division Engineer Troops: Division engineer regiment, Division engineer train; D. Engineer Troops in the S.O.S.]

General Construction

• Engineer Field Notes No.9:  General Construction No.1: Cement (16 April 1918); 4 pages  Price .50  {Item No.1566-44}  [Includes: Cements, Classes of cement to be furnished, Packing and marking of commerical French cement, Physical properties and precautions as to use]