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Here's where we've decided to move all of our printed materials (books, magazines, manuals) that don't need photos or
we can't think of a better place to put them. So, be sure to look carefully 'cause you never know when that vital Underwater
Basketweaving Course Manual might show up!
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All manuals are in good condition unless otherwise noted.
WWII
FM 22-5 "Infantry Drill Regulations," August 1941. This is the manual that many a GI suffered through
on numerous drill and parade grounds. 208 pages with charts and line drawings. Excellent condition. Price:
SOLD!
#CC264 FM 5-20 "Engineer Field Manual - Camouflage," 1940. Interesting manual on how to camouflage
vehicles, equipment and oneself. 52 pages. Front cover has owner's name and army service number inked in (guess
he wanted to make sure no one else walked off with it!). Excellent condition. Price: 17.00
TM 10-227 "Fitting of Men's Uniforms" October 1967. Price: $3.00
TM 5-6665-293-13 "Portable Mime Detecting Set (AN/PRS-7)" September 1969 -- NO KIDDING! It really
does have "Mime Detecting" printed on the cover! Be sure to keep your community safe! -- Comes with "Repair Parts and
Special Tools List." SOLD!!!
TM 11-5020 "Antenna Equipment RC-292" May 1950 -- Comes with updates. Price: $2.00
TM 10-6260-1-12 "Gasoline Lantern - 1 Mantle - Clear Heat Resistant Glass Globe" February 1958. Price:
$1.00
TM 9-2320-260-10-HR Hand Receipt Manual Covering the End Item/Components of End Item (COEI), Basic Issue Items
(BII), and Additional Authorization List (AAL) Related to Truck, 5-Ton, 6x6, M809 Series (Diesel), January 1979; and
TM 9-2320-260-10-4 Technical Manaual Maintenance Operator Level 5-Ton, 6x6, M809 Series Trucks (Diesel), August 1980.
Two useful manuals if you happen to have a 5-ton 6x6 sitting around in your front yard. These cover the ENTIRE
series of vehicles/equipment related to these vehicles! Price: $2.00 for set.
NEW! AFM 35-10 Service and Dress Uniforms for Air Force Personnel, 12 June 1961. Air
Force Manual that covers the uniforms of both male and female personnel during the Vietnam War-era. Excellent research
material. Price: $3.00
Magazines
The Point. WWII reenactor-based magazine published
by the WWII Historical Reenactment Society (HRS). A great look back on how WWII reenacting was 15-20 years ago.
The Point went out of publication in the late 1990s. Condition is mostly good though some will have surface wear from
USPO mailing. Price: $2.00 per issue/copy.
Vol 12 #1 (Jan-Feb 1986) cover is very damaged, otherwise ok.
Vol 12 #5
(Sept-Oct 1986)
Vol 12 #6 (Nov-Dec 1986)
Vol 13 #1 (Jan-Feb 1987)
Vol 13 #2 (Mar-Apr 1987)
Vol 13 #3 (May-Jun
1987)
Vol 14 #1 (Jan-Feb 1988) Have 2 copies.
Vol 14 #3 (May-Jun 1988)
Breakthrough.
WWII reenactor-based magazine published by the 20th Century Tactical Studies Group (TSG). Excellent magazine with many
diverse articles on reenacting the wars of the 20th century. Magazine went out of publication in the late 1990s.
Price: $2.00 per issue/copy.
Vol 1 #2 (Winter 1989)
Vol 2 #1 (Winter 1990)
#8 (Summer/Fall 1990) Vietnam
Issue
#10 (Spring/Summer 1991)
#11 (Winter 1991)
#18 (Spring 1995)
#19 (Summer 1995)
#19 (Fall 1995)
Camp Chase Gazette. Civil War reenactor magazine with each issue full
of interesting items for that period. Still being published today (though under different owners). Price:
$3.00 per copy.
Vol 16, #1, October 1988
Vol 20, #9, August 1993
Vol 21, #4, March 1994
Vol 22, #1 October 1994
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Books
All books are in good condition unless otherwise noted.
Firearms
NEW! The World's Submachine Guns (Machine Pistols) Volume
1 by Thomas B. Nelson and Hans B. Lockhaven. 1st Edition, 2nd Printing (June 1964) by International Small Arms
Publishers, Cologne, Germany; 740 pages and over 300 photographs; hardback with dust cover, excellent condition. One
of the best references on light automatic weapons in the world and covers some of the most obscure subguns ever built.
Price: $125.00
NEW! Small Arms of the World (10th Revised Edition)
by Joseph E. Smith and W.H.B. Smith. Published by Stackpole Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1973. Over 768
pages with hindreds of photos and breakdown diagrams of hundreds of military small arms, hardback with dust cover, very excellent
condition (looks to be almost unused). Considered by many to be one of the very best references in military small arms.
Price: $50.00
Automatic Arms (Their History, Development and Use) by Melvin M. Johnson and Charles
T. Haven. 1st Edition (1941) by William Morrow and Co., New York; 344 pages, many photographs and 5 double-sided
fold-outs detailing many famous automatic weapons of WWI and pre-WWII, hardback with no dustcover, slight foxing on some pages,
otherwise excellent condition. This work was done by the inventor of the Johnson Rifle and Light Machine Gun.
A hard-to-find reference work on early full-auto weapons.
Price: $50.00
The Concealed Handgun Manual by Chris Bird. 2nd printing (1998) by Privateer
Publications, 276 pages, soft cover, numerous photos. Outstanding work on how to choose, carry, and shoot a gun in self-defense.
If you are planning to conceal-carry, this is a book you need. Price: $10.00
Military History
Fortress America: The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present by J.E. Kaufmann
& H.W. Kaufmann. 1st Printing (2004) by Da Capo Press, 416 pages with many photographs and illustrations.
This hardback book cover the entire spectrum of US military forts from the early days of coastal forts up to the nuclear bunkers
of today. An excellent tome that should be in any military historians library! Price: $25.00
NEW! Mighty Midgets At War (The Saga of the LCS(L) Ships
from Iwo Jima to Vietnam by Robin Rielly. 1st Printing (2000) by Hellgate Press, 300 pages with many photographs
and illustrations. This softback covers the use and history of converted Landing Ships into anti-aircraft "gunboats"
that took on the WWII Japanese suicide attacks and into the "Cold War." A really great book on the history
of small ships that went "in harms way." Price: $15.00
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle. 8th Printing
(February 1945) by Henry Holt and Company; 328 pages; no dust cover; hardback, good condition. A great WWII book by a
man who lost his life while covering WWII. Price: $10.00
Gunner's Mate by Bob Galati. 1st Printing (1993) by Innovatia Press, Inc.,
123 pages, soft cover, good condition. An excellent first-person memoir of service with the Naval Armed Guard in WWII.
Autographed by the author. Price: $10.00
Time-Life Series of the Civil War by Time-Life Books Hard-back volumes
of the 1985 series on the Civil War. An excellent series of about 175 pages per volume that is sometimes hard to find.
Price: $10.00 per volume
Currently in stock:
Gettysburg: The Confederate High Tide
The Struggle for Tennessee: Tupelo to Stones River
The Road to Shiloh: Early Battles in the West
Brother Against Brother: The War Begins
The Eagle Has Flown by Jack Higgins. 1st Printing (1991) by Simon &
Schuster, 335 pages, hard cover w/dustcover. If you enjoyed "The Eagle Has Landed," then this book is for you! Take
Liam Devlin (the IRA gunman), some crazed Germans, a pilot from the George Washington Legion, British fascists, and others,
mix it all together, and you are in for a wild ride as they all try to get Col. Steiner out of England. It's actually
a good book, though highly implausible. Price: $10.00
NEW! The Landings in North Africa - November 1942 by
the Naval Historical Center 1993 Reprint of 1st Edition (1944) by the Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 113
pages, softcover. This reprint of a WWII-era book is a well-done report on the US Navy's operations for the TORCH invasion
of North Africa in 1942. The book details the problems and successes of the operation. Excellent read for the WWII naval
reader. Price: $10.00
Soldiers of World War I Published by the West Point Museum, publishing
date unknown; 8-1/2x5-1/2 inches; Each color plate is a post card showing US, Belgian, French, English, Italian, Russian,
Austrian and German soldiers with detaliled info about their uniforms and equipment printed on the back. Price:
$2.00
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