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Japanese Defense Against Amphibious Operations

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Item Number: L0031

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Japanese Defense Against Amphibious Operations

[Special Series No. 29]

This detailed intelligence report covers the structures and weapons utilized by the Japanese forces in defending against Allied amphibious operations. The contents listing below gives a very clear picture of what is covered.

Most of the photographs have been seldom published elsewhere, and depict both the weapons and the various fortified positions encountered by Allied forces.

Originally published in February 1945 by the Military Intelligence Division, War Department, Washington, D.C.

Tactics and Organization
Tactics
- Doctrine
- Basic Principles
- Defense of Attu
- Use of Terrain
  - Biak
  - Kiska
  - Tarawa Atoll
  - Kwajalein
  - Munda and Vila
  - Eniwetok
  - Makin
  - Saipan
  - General Estimate
- Organization
- Beach Obstacles, Barricades, and Mines
- Introduction
- Barbed Wire
- Concrete Obstacles and Log Barricades
- Improvised Obstacles
- Tank Barriers and Traps
- Mines
Fortifications and Airfields
- Concrete Installations
  - Construction Methods
  - Blockhouses
  - Pillboxes
  - Casements
  - Shelters
  - Concrete-covered Steel
  - Prefabricated Concrete
- Non-Concrete Installations
  - Shelters
  - Bunkers
  - Pillboxes
  - Camouflage and Dummy Positions
- Airfields
  - General Description
  - Typical Fields
Japanese Coast Defense Guns
- 8-inch Guns
- 6-inch Guns
- 14-cm and 12-cm Guns
- 4.7-inch Guns
- 8-cm and 75-mm Guns
- Heavy Guns Not Yet Encountered
- Field Artillery in Coast Defense
- Guns Captured by the Japanese
- Dual-Purpose, Anti-aircraft, and Machine Guns
- Dual-Purpose and Anti-aircraft Guns
  - Mobile Guns
  - Fixed Guns
- Machine Guns
  - Heavy Machine Guns
  - Light Machine Guns
Detection and Communication
- Radar
  - Description of Early Warning Equipment
  - Searchlight Control
- Radio
- Searchlights
129 pages
91 photos
2 drawings
6 maps