Posted on 11/07/2026 8:50:48 AM PST by dynachrome
We have compiled thousands of U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Joint military publications and put them into one easily searchable library. This is the largest collection of these public domain resources in one place, with documents dating from WWII through the most current publications, covering everything from warfighting and radio operations to equipment maintenance, medical care, engineering, and more.
4,215 manuals and 724,471 pages, available as both original PDFs and EPUBs.
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Some of the .pdf won’t down load. Try archive.org for a copy.
Neat.
Army and Marine Cap gear is a Hobby
and I have some items...
Thanks!
Great find, thank you
Thank you dynachrome,
I also recall some while ago when Kartographer had a good preparedness manual to share.
Bringing your weapons inside at 60 below zero to warm them up will cause them to sweat.
The number of uses of the M-67 fragmentation grenade is limited only by the imagination of the user.
great resource! Thank you!
Bunch of random lettersin place of words in what i read. Lots of disinformation.
My High School JROTC class used FM 22-5 as a text book. There may have been a time or two when my Drill Sergeant felt the need to remind me that HE was the textbook. Absolutely no more than twice.
Grok is aware of these archives. I’ve specifically asked it to search field manuals for assistance and reality checks in building my own antennas, specifically shortwave for amateur operations. Saves a lot of money. ARRL has the most detail and theory but some of the best, simple setups I’ve run across are in Marine radio operator’s manuals. And it’s all free!
I joined USAF in ‘56. If possible, I’d like a reprint of that year Airman’s Guide. What is an address where I might find that?
The Airman’s Guide appears to be a commercial publication, not a government manual I guess. I did find 4 editions of it on archive.org. Go there and search for “airman’s guide”. I’m not sure what came up is from 1956 though. I was in from 85 to 88 but have never heard of this guide until now. Interesting. Good luck!
Ping!
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