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To Catch A Tank
Now available is a 40-page PDF file of a US Army training manual, TC 23-3, "To Catch A Tank: Big Game Hunting Made Easy." Published in 1972, this "comic book style" manual illustrates tactics that infantry can use to take down enemy tanks, both in the wild (largely forests) and in cities.

This manual was scanned at high rez and digitally "cleaned" to make it the be all that it can be.

Since this was a small-format publication (still, it's 26 megabytes), it comes with a small-format price.

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End of the War In the Pacific: Surrender Documents in Facsimile
"End of the War In the Pacific: Surrender Documents in Facsimile" was put out by the National Archives in 1945. This 28-page PDF document includes:
Radio script of ceremonies opening the the exhibit of Japanese surrender documents at the National Archives
Foreign Minister Shigemitsu's credentials authorizing him to sign the surrender docs (Japanese and English)
General Umezu's credentials authorizing him to sign the surrender docs (Japanese and English)
Instrument of surrender signed at Tokyo Bay
Emperor Hirohito's rescript announcing the surrender and ordering the people to carry out the provisions of the instrument of surrender (Japanese and English)
Instrument of surrender of Japanese forces in the Phillipines
Instrument of surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea
Instrument of surrender of Japanese forces in southeast Asia

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Operator's Manual: M-60 Machine Gun
TM 9-1005-224-10 A 32-page "comic book" style manual on how to operate, clean and maintain your very own M-60 machine gun. Put out by the the US Army/ Rock Island Arsenal on 1967, this is a 1980 print.

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Fastest Gun In The West: Vulcan
TC 44-5, July 1974: A 32-page "comic book" style training manual on how to use your towed or M-113-mounted 20-mm M-61 "Vulcan" Gatling gun to bring the pain to (presumably) enemy aircraft and ground targets.

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Protection From the Atomic Bomb
Do you live in Massachusetts? Do you live in fear of the Atomic Bomb? Is it 1950 where you live? Do you like to call elected officials "Your Excellency?" Then this is the booklet for you! Learn how an A-Bomb can kill you, and how you can avoid horrible, horrible death. Men, be advised... there are shocking images of men not wearing their hats.

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