How Radio-Controlled Bombs Were Jammed
The following article was printed in the December 1945 issue of C.I.C. (Combat Information Center) published by the U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The long, violent history of this war...
View ArticleTactical and Technical Trends #12
The U.S. military intelligence articles from Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 12, November 1942 have been added to the main website: German Aircraft Cannons ◊ The German Rescue Buoy ◊...
View ArticleJapanese Suicide Boats
The following U.S. intelligence reports on Japanese suicide boats were published in Enemy on Luzon: An Intelligence Summary: NAVY SUICIDE CRASH BOATS: Japanese suicide crash boats manned by Naval...
View ArticleTiger Armor Thickness
These Tiger I and Tiger II armor thickness diagrams were included in a confidential SHAEF intelligence publication on German tanks in October 1944: PzKpfw “Tiger” – Model E Armour Arrangement PzKpfw...
View ArticleGerman Machine Gun Trick
The following intelligence report on an unusual German remote-controlled machine-gun position encountered by U.S. troops in Normandy was published in the Intelligence Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 4,...
View ArticlePantiger
When the Allied forces first encountered the Tiger II in Normandy in the summer of 1944, the panzer was briefly referred to as the “Pantiger”. The Associated Press picked up the name “Pantiger” in...
View ArticleTactical and Technical Trends #34
The U.S. intelligence articles from Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 34, September 1943 have been added to the main Lone Sentry website: The Me-410 Aircraft ◊ Protection Against Japanese Aerial...
View ArticleTojo Fighter
NOTES ON ENEMY AIRCRAFT The information contained in this summary should be transferred immediately to Informational Intelligence Summary No. 43-26, “Japanese Aircraft and Armament,” revised September...
View ArticleSubmersible Baka
“Submersible Baka” from C.I.C. (Combat Information Center), U.S. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Vol. II, No. 7, July 1945. “SUBMERSIBLE BAKA” Some midget subs are to the Japanese I and RO...
View ArticleThe Japanese Zero Fighter
Intelligence report on a Japanese Zero fighter forced down over the Aleutian Islands and captured by American forces. Source: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin, (“All Hands Magazine”),...
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