Intelligence Bulletin Vol 03 No 08 April 1945 Intelligence Bulletin MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIVISION War Department Washington 25, D. C. VOL III, NO. 8 April 1945 TABLE OF CONTENTS Japan Breakneck Ridge — A Lesson in Jap Defensive Tactics Fire Discipline Defense Counterattack Snipers Short History of Japanese Military Rifles 11-mm Rifle, Model 13 8-mm Rifle, Model 20 8-mm Cavalry Carbine, Model 27 6.5-mm Rifle, Model 30 6.5-mm Cavalry Carbine, Model 30 6.5-mm Rifle, Model 38 6.5-mm Cavalry Carbine, Model 33 6.5-mm Short Rifle, Model 38 6.5-mm Cavalry Carbine, Model 44 6.5-mm Sniper's Rifle, Model 97 7.7-mm Rifle, Model 99 7.7-mm Takedown Rifle, Model 99 7.7-mm Takedown Rifle, Model 2 Additional Types Jap Report on U.S. Tactics Comments on Combat Comments on Security Comments on Bivouacs Japanese Development of Rocket Weapons Model 10 Rocket Launcher 20-cm Rocket 44.7-cm Rocket Experimental 20-cm Rocket Gun More Notes on Booby Traps and Firing Devices Mark "I" Land Mine Soap-bar Booby Trap Delay Mine Booby-trap Igniters GERMANY Recent Minefield Doctrine Minefield Marking Useful Notes on Surveying Conventional Signs A Glossary of German Mines and Fuzes The Eismine and Other Developments The Eismine The Panzerfaust as a Flying Mine Mining and Strengthening of Abatis True and Dummy Booby Traps in Roads Tellermines Embedded in Concrete Patrolling from Static Positions Discovered in Combat — II X Marks the Spot Vulnerable Strongpoints Bottle Mines Sniping at Leading Elements Masking the 88 Suicide Patrols Tactical Shifting of Antitank Guns Defense Against Patrols Artillery Signal What the Germans Learned at Warsaw In brief Assault-unit (Stosstrupp) Tactics "The Germans Counterattacked" Model's Methods Cover Illustration — A Jap machine gun emplacement on the flank of a reverse-slope position prepares to fire at American troops advancing against Breakneck Ridge during operations on Leyte (see story on page 1).

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Numbering ceased with v. 3, no. 12, August 1945

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