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The Soldier's Handbook, 1941

INTRODUCTION This Soldier's Handbook has been in use by units and individual soldiers in the Regular Army and the National Guard, for more than six years. It was written upon the order of the Chief of Infantry by Regular Army instructors at The Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, which has for twenty years been a center of development of official military basic training for all branches of the Army of the United States. It was also checked by officers on duty in the Office of the Chief of Infantry in the War Department at Washington. The Soldier's Handbook is based on instructional matter contained in numerous War Department manuals and documents which are not in general readily available to individuals. The chapters on elementary drill are identical with those contained in the official Drill Regulations. The other chapters containing material from some forty other official manuals and texts, have been rewritten in a simple style to give the user of this Handbook a convenient and compact source of basic military information. In the Regular Army a number of regiments present The Soldier's Handbook to each new soldier when he first joins the unit. This gift to the soldier from

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