Bøker av Admiralty

Published by the Admiralty in August 1916 at the height of the Great War, and originally issued in a top secret edition of just 300 copies for the use of officers of the Royal Naval Air Service, this extraordinarily comprehensive volume is a complete compendium of armaments in use at the halfway point of the conflict. The book has sections on Bombs, Fuzes, Grenades, Machine Guns, Bomb and Gun Sights, Gun Mountings, Small Arms peculiar to aircraft; instruction in Gun-laying and Bomb-dropping; and Armour. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings and diagrams.¿This facsimile edition has been reproduced from the copy formerly held by the MOD Pattern Room Library.

A confidential Unexploded Bomb Disposal Dept. Admiralty publication issued in January of 1944, this publication was originally covered by the Official Secrets Acts. With much technical detail covering Recognition with HE. Bombs, Incendiaries, Depth Charges from Aircraft, Aircraft - Laid Mines, Rocket Devices, Fuzes and Pistols. Illustrated with technical photographs and line drawings. A must for the battlefield archaeologist and WW2 historian.A reprint of an original working copy complete with many tipped-in amendments and hand written corrections, a rare survival that was preserved at the MOD Pattern Room Library.