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World War II Combat Lessons and Army Talks

Combat Lessons and Army Talks

Army Talks

Army Talks was a series of short works published for GIs in the European theater of World War II “to help them become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

Army Talks began publication in 1943 and continued through the end of the war in Europe. Issues were usually published on a weekly or biweekly basis, and each had its own title and topic. The pamphlets contained articles, combat tips, proclamations, maps, drawings, cartoons, news, updates, and other general information.

Some links download from this site, while other links go to my Dropbox account. If DropBox gives you errors or cannot connect, please try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies and disable any third-party plugins (such as AdBlocker or Privacy Badger) as they may interfere with the ability of DropBox to render the PDFs. Special thanks to the 90th ID for making some of these available.

If you would like to purchase copies, you can do so through Wartime Press. It looks like you get a digital copy as a PDF. I’m not sure if the copies are exact reproductions. If they are, it would be very neat to see them in the field.

If you want all the Army Talks Volumes, you can download the zip file via my Google Drive here.

Volume I: Army Talks for the 8th Air Force

Army Talks for the 8th Air Force Vol.1 No. 1 Jan 10th, 1945: Stars Over The ReichArmy Talks for the 8th Air Force Vol. 1 No. 2 Feb 10th 1945: Day and NightArmy Talks for the 8th Air Force Vol. 1 No. 3 March 10th, 1945: On Base
Army Talks for the 8th Air Force Vol. 1 No. 4 April 7th, 1945: USSTAF – US Strategic Air ForcesArmy Talks for the 8th Air Force Vol. 1 No. 5 May 5th, 1945: History was made by day

Volume I: Army Talks

Army Talks Vol. 1 No. 5 Oct 27th, 1943 – How Lend Lease WorksArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 6 Nov 3rd, 1943 – What’s Wrong With the Germans?Army Talks Vol. 1 No. 7 Nov 10th, 1943 – Democracy in AmericaArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 8 Nov 17th, 1943 – Pattern for Air VictoryArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 9 Nov 24th, 1943- What Are We Fighting For?
Army Talks Vol. 1 No. 10 Dec 1st 1943 – The Battle of the AtlanticArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 11 Dec 8th 1943 – What We’ll Find in EuropeArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 12 Dec 15th, 1943 – Problems of Organized PeaceArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 13 Dec 22nd, 1943 – The Soldier and his MailArmy Talks Vol. 1 No. 14 Dec 29th 1943 – Traditions of the British Army

Volume II: Army Talks

 Vol. 2 No. 1 Jan 5th 1944 – The British Political SystemVol. II, No 2, Two Years of War (12 Jan. 1944)Vol. 2 No. 3 Jan 19th 1944 – US Foreign PolicyArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 4 Jan 26th 1944 – Two Nations One ArmyVol. II, No 5, The Good General (2 Feb. 1944)
 Vol. 2 No. 6 Feb 9th 1944 – Jobs After The WarVol. 2 No. 7 Feb 16th 1944 – Soldier SavingsVol. II, No 8, France (23 Feb. 1944) Vol. 2 No. 9 March 1st 1944 – The German Soldier Vol. 2 No. 10 March 8th 1944 – Words Are Weapons Too
Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 11 March 15th 1944 – The Yank in BritainArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 12 March 22nd 1944 – The Army is Quite A ThingArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 13 March 29th 1944 – Lend Lease Weapon for VictoryArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 14 April 5th 1944 – The Nature of a Free ManArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 15 April 12th 1944 – Teamwork
Vol. II, No 16, Brains, Guts and Concrete (19 Apr. 1944) Vol. II, No 17, Queen of Battle (26 Apr. 1944)Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 18 May 3rd 1944 – The Enemy and You Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 19 May 10th 1944 – These Guys Fought ’em!
    Vol. II, No 25, See yourself as Jerry sees you! (24th Jun. 1944)
 Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 26 June 28th 1944 – Who’s who, What’s what, and Hau’s hofer Vol II No. 27 July 5th 1944 Notes from Normandy Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 28 July 12th 1944 – That Question is here againVol. II No. 29 Air Power, 7-19-1944Vol. II, No 30, Seven against the World! (26 Jul. 1944)
 Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 31 Aug 2nd 1944 – GI Bill of RIghtsArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 32 Aug 9th 1944 – What You Should Know about FranceArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 33 Aug 16th 1944 – The Red Army Man Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 34 Aug 23rd 1944 – Picture Paradise Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 35 Aug 30th 1944 – What Boche PWs Think About You
 Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 36 Sept 6th 1944 – How I Got WoundedArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 37 Sept 13th 1944 – Combat Medicine Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 38 Sept 20th 1944 – What’s Wrong With This PictureArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 39 Sept 27th 1944 – You’re Really In The Army NowArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 40 Oct 28th 1944 – What To Do With Germany?
 Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 42 Nov 11th 1944 – China 7 Years At WarArmy Talks Vol. 2 No. 43 Nov 18th 1945 – What To Do With War Criminals? Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 44 Nov 25th 1944 – German Supermen Return UndergroundVol. II, No 45, Blueprint for WWIII (2 Dec. 1944)
 Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 47th Dec 16th 1944 – Framework for Peace Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 49 Dec 30th 1944 – Who Made Hitler  Army Talks Vol. 2 No. 50 Jan 6th 1945 – The Combat Man Speaks

Volume III: Army Talks

Vol. III, No 1, The Army in Europe (13 Jan. 1945) Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan 20th 1945 – 7 New Year’s DaysVol. III, No 3, How to blunt a blitzkrieg (27 Jan. 1945)  Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 4 Feb 3rd 1945 – The State Of The UnionVol. III, No 5, How to keep house in a foxhole (10 Feb. 1945)
 Vol III No. 7 March 1945: We Came as Conquers Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 8 March 10th 1945Vol. III, No 9, Homefront USA and Total War (17 Mar. 1945) Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 10 March 21st 1945 – The Big Three At Yalta
Vol. III, No 11, Operation Jackson (31 Mar. 1945) Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 12 April 7th 1945 – What The Germans Told American Prisoners Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 13 April 14th 1945 – What Homefolks Think Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 14 April 14th 1945 – War and Peace after 1918 Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 15 April 17th 1945 – What About Manpower
Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 16 April 24th 1945 – What is America?Army Talks Vol. 3 No. 17 May 1st 1945 – Five Points of US Foreign Policy

Combat Lessons

The Rank and file in combat, what they are doing, how they are doing it. The suggestions in Combat Lessons are drawn from the experience of the World War II American Soldiers in both Europe and the Pacific.

Combat Lessons Vol 1-9 1944 – A series of interviews and tidbits of information learned by GIs in combat.

34th Infantry Division Lessons Learned in Combat Sept 1944 –

Volume 1 Volume 2Volume 3Volume 4Volume 5
Volume 6 Volume 7Volume 8Volume 934th Infantry Division: Lessons Learned in Combat Sept 1944

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Digital Storage

  1. Read the following link and identify at least two problems with digital storage:An Interview With Two Scientists On the Problem of Digital Storage
  2. Then read this link and answer the following questions:

Scientists Solve The Digital Storage Problem

A. How are scientists proposing to solve the problems with digital storage?

B. Why is this process better?

C. Explain how the storing of the data works (How are they encoding the information?)

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ASCII Art and Games

ASCII Art and Games

Directions: Create 3 rabbits, Convert an Image, and play a game for at least 10. minutes. When done answer the following Exit Questions on a half-sheet of paper.

ASCII Rabbits: Follow the instructions to create ASCII Rabbits. Will need a text-file or a Google Doc
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Bunny-by-Typing-Characters-on-Your-Keyboard

Convert an Image into ASCII Art:
Find an image on the internet and upload it to the site. It will automatically convert it into ASCII
https://picascii.com/

Convert text into ASCII Art
Type a word in and adjust the settings. It will automatically convert it into ASCII art.
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Isometric3&t=Hello

ASCII Games:
Early computer games were text-based.

Try Oregon Trail
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990

Chess
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chess_1981

Air Traffic Controller
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Air_Traffic_Controller_1985

House at the Edge of Time
https://archive.org/details/msdos_House_at_the_Edge_of_Time_The_1990

Draw in ASCII

http://asciiflow.com/

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Hour of Code

Hour of Code

You will select among several code tutorials and code (program a computer) for an hour. You may stick with one tutorial or switch out. The purpose is to code for an hour and expose you to the creativity and fun that computer science and programming can be! You will be graded based on participation and completion of reflection questions.

Objective: Code using a tutorial for one hour.

Hour of Code Tutorials

MineCraft: Use coding blocks to travel through a Minecraft world.

Star Wars: Use Javascript to program droids and create a Star Wars game

Flappy Bird: Create a clone of flappy bird using coding blocks.

PHP Language on CodeCademy: The Language for WordPress

HTML and CSS on CodeCademy: The Language for building Webpages

JavaScript on CodeCademy: The Language of the Web

JQuery on CodeCademy: The Language for building interactive websites

Python on CodeCademy: The Language for creating general applications

Ruby CodeCademy: The Language for creating web applications

APIs on CodeCademy: The interface for communicating with different web applications

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Encoding Numbers in the Real World

Encoding Numbers in the Real World
Directions: Use the handout to research the following links

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Servo Motors

Servo Motors

Setup your breadboard and Arduino using the image below:

Servo Motor Image

Once your image is setup, use the code below to control the Servo

Servo Motor Code

Stuck on Servo Motor? Try this site here: Servo Motor Tutorial

Servo Questions
1 What real-world things use a Servo Motor? Come-up with 3 examples.

2 What could you create with a Servo Motor? How about two Servo Motors?

Servo Challenges:
1 Try to make the Servo Motor go 300 degrees.

2 Try to make the Servo Motor go 90 degrees

3 Try to make the Servo Motor go x degrees (your choice)

4 What happens if you make the Servo Motor go 460 degrees?
HINT: You may need to delete a For() function.

5 Ask for another Servo Motor and try to get two Servo Motors to work at the sametime. What would you need to add? What would your code look like?

6 As a challenge try adding a Potentiometer Knob here to control the location of the Servo Motor. Use the link below.

Potentiometer Knob and Servo Motor

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Intro to Arrays

Use your Array notes in class to complete the following exercises

//Musical Notes
#define NOTE_B0 31
#define NOTE_C1 33
#define NOTE_CS1 35
#define NOTE_A3 45
#define NOTE_G3 67
#define NOTE_B3 1100
#define NOTE_C4 467

// Melody
int melody[] = {
};

1. What does the number next to each of the notes above mean?
2. Follow the model above and write a new note.
3. Examine the code above and explain what you would need to do in order to play three notes.
4. Look at the above code and write the code needed to place the melody into a loop

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Arduino Piezo Buzzer Project

Arduino Piezo Buzzer Project

You will need 4 wires and a Piezo buzzer.

Connect the wires as shown to complete a circuit with the Piezo buzzer.

Peiz Arduino Setup

The negative wire should go to the digital ground pin while the positive wire should go to digital pin number 8 and positive should be in ground. If that does not work, place the positive wire in the 5v power pin.
Peizo Digital Pins

To code the Piezo buzzer you will need to create a tab or file that your main Arduino code can access. You should call this new tab pitches.h

To create a new tab click on the arrow located all the way to the right and select New Tab.

New Arduino Tab

Name this tab pitches.h and insert the new code. Use the code located here to cut and paste into a pitches.h tab

Arduino Notes

Then select the your original sketch (also known as your code) and insert the following code by cutting and pasting it.

Melody for Arduino 

Code Challenges:

  1. Figure out how to place the melody on a loop
  2. Figure out how to change the melody notes
  3. Figure out how to change the kind of notes
  4. Figure out how to adjust the delay between each note.
  5. Can you play a recognizable tune? (Note: delete everything in your pitches.h file and insert all the following code into the Arduino Main sketch). You do not need any resistors and make sure your positive wire is in pin 13 and your negative wire is in pin 3.


The Code for a Recognizable Tune

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Intro to Internet Privacy

Intro to Internet Privacy
Directions:

Visit the following and link and address the questions. Be sure to navigate to each page on the link.

Internet Safety Link
Questions:
1. Why do people believe they are safer online than they actually are?
2. Explain the following internet threats
A. Malware
B. Phishing
C. Virus
D. Clickjacking
E. Browser Hijacking
F. SPAM
G. Trojan Horse
3. What are three ways your internet privacy and safety can be violated?
4. Explain the following internet safety terms
A. Meme
B. Troll
C. Sockpuppet
D. Avatar
5. Google and Bing yourself using quotes. If information appears you do not like you can request Google or Bing to remove it.
You may need to have an account with Google or Microsoft in order to request a removal.

Google Contant/Info Removal

Bing Content/Info Removal

Note: If you identify any images or information contained in the search you do not like you can ask Google and Bing to remove them. Most search engines allow for that to happen BUT it may take several weeks before they are completely removed.

6 Ask yourself, how are your privacy settings on your social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc? Are they open for anyone or just “Friends”?

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Arduino Functions

Directions:
Visit the following web address and complete the questions. You just need the answers.

A. Arduino DigitalWrite Function
1. What is the name of the function?
2. What does it describe (ie: What does it do?)
3. How do you write it (ie: What is it’s Syntax?)
4. What is it’s parameters (ie: What information can you put inside of it?)
5. When would you use the function?
6. Create an example digitalwrite function

B. Arduino AnalogWrite Function
1. What is the name of the function?
2. What does it describe (ie: What does it do? HINT: Read the first two sentences)
3. How do you write it (ie: What is it’s Syntax?)
4. What is it’s parameters (ie: What information can you put inside of it?)
5. When would you use the function?
6. Create an example analogwrite function.

C. Arduino PinMode Function
1. What is the name of the function?
2. What does it describe (ie: What does it do?)
3. How do you write it (ie: What is it’s Syntax?)
4. What is it’s parameters (ie: What information can you put inside of it?)
5. When would you use the function?
6. Create an example pinMode function.

D. Arduino digitalRead Function
1. What is the name of the function?
2. What does it describe (ie: What does it do?)
3. How do you write it (ie: What is it’s Syntax?)
4. What is it’s parameters (ie: What information can you put inside of it?)
5. When would you use the function?
6. Create an example digitalRead function.