Chelt Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I've just discovered the US Army Heritage Collection Online: http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/index.jsp The site contains a vast number of historical documents, including manuals from the whole of the 20th century, in PDF form. There are also images and personal documents. It's a bonanza for any curious reader or serious researcher, though the interface is appalling. It's not immediately obvious how one narrows down a search to particular types of documents, periods, or collections. By way of example, here's how I searched for Coast Artillery manuals: - Go to http://www.ahco.army.mil/site/search.jsp - Click on the "search" button - Click on "advanced options" - Under "document fields," uncheck all boxes except for "Published Material" - Click on the "save changes" button - Under "title," enter your search terms, like "Coast". - Press the "Submit Search" button. - You get a listing of results. The site presents manuals as PDFs contained within a frame. If you know how, you can save these PDFs to your hard drive. Try control-clicking on a Mac, or right-clicking under Windows. The files contain watermarks that make them pretty much illegible. If you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, you can select and then delete the stupid and unnecessary watermarks. (They're US Government documents, so they're in the public-freakin-domain.) [This is a slightly expanded cross-post from the Naval Fiction Board.] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawaiku Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 Wow very cool. Thanks for showing us this, I hadn't discovered it yet, thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
undead reindeer cavalry Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 unbelievably cool! :eek: thanks for sharing! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Great find. Thanks for sharing. All the best Andreas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I've been trying to find the digital download of the Handbook on German Military Forces for a couple of weeks now. Never came across this site, though. Many thanks! btw Chelt - saving the documents is easy, at least in my browsers. Just click the floppy disc icon in Adobe. You younglings probably don't even know what a floppy disc is, so I don't blame you for not catching this. [ March 12, 2007, 05:37 AM: Message edited by: Michael Dorosh ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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