Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WW2. Show all posts

Sunday, February 22, 2015


''Hide in plain sight''



''Manual prepared for the Industrial camouflage program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York''

Industrial Camouflage Manual (Pratt Institute Camouflage Laboratory, 1942)

https://archive.org/details/industrialcamouf00wittrich

Saturday, February 14, 2015


''No wonder they called it ''The Nazi Party''...''



''Pervitin, a stimulant commonly known as speed today, was the German army's -- the Wehrmacht's -- wonder drug.''

Hitler's Drugged Soldiers (Andreas Ulrich, Spiegel 2005)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html

Wednesday, January 28, 2015


''If he blows his cover he might blow the lid
  So he stays in the shadows like he always did...''



Published January 17, 1944- "This information is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it...''

Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Office Of Strategic Services,1944)

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional

Thursday, January 22, 2015


''A vegetarian, too.''




This document - created by the American O.S.S.in 1943- was the first attempt at the psychological ''profiling'' of political leaders as a tool for intelligence operations, a practice that has become widespread since.

 Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler (1943)

https://archive.org/details/AnalysisOfThePersonalityOfAdolphHitler

Friday, January 16, 2015


''An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.''



The M3 was created during WW2 as a weapon for tank crews. It was still in use well into the 80s....

Grease Gun M3-M3A1 - FM 23-41 Service manual

https://archive.org/details/gunmanual_Grease_Gun_M3-M3A1_-_FM_23-41

Thursday, January 15, 2015


''Easy.They are the ones shooting back at us.''





For the G.I.'s - How to recognize a Nazi soldier...


1942-11 Intelligence Bulletin Vol 01 No 03

https://archive.org/details/1942-11IntelligenceBulletinVol01No03

Wednesday, January 14, 2015


''Sherlock Holmes smarter brother''


Vannevar Bush: Mycroft Holmes, for real.

Science, the endless frontier- Report on a program for postwar scientific research (1945)

https://archive.org/details/scienceendlessfr00unit

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

''A screaming comes across the sky.'' 





The American reverse engineering program of the German A-2.

Final report- Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program (Genertal Electric Corp. 1952)

https://archive.org/details/finalreportproje00whit