Two small wartime publications issued during WW II to Officers in the
Canadian Army.
Some content relating to affairs in Greece & Crete 1941-1942.
June Samaras
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CANADIAN ARMY TRAINING MEMORANDUM. No. 11. February, 1942.
Book Description: Ottawa, King's Printer, 1942., 1942. (VG). A wartime
monthly information
and instruction for officers. Topics include Delaying Measures to an
Enemy Advance, Notes on
German Airborne Troops, with an Appendix on the method adopted for
dropping supplies and
ammunition in Greece and Crete. Notes on Winter Training. Appendix III
is Notes on Long
Range Desert Patrols. Digest-sized paper covers. 68 pp. plus a
fold-out chart on gas and respirators. Moderate wear. Ink name of a
lieutenant on the front cover. Very good.
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CANADIAN ARMY TRAINING MEMORANDUM. No. 13. April 1942.
Book Description: Ottawa, King's Printer, 1942., 1942. (VG). A wartime
monthly information
and instruction for officers. Topics include "Six Lost Weeks,"
describing how the British, fighting
"hopeless odds" in Greece and Crete in 1940-41, cost the German army
six weeks of summer
campaigning in its attack on Russia. A Training article, 'Camouflage
and the "Conspicuous Fool."
' Appendix V deals with Japanese tanks, with four schematic drawings
of some types.
There is an Appendix on German hand grenades and mortars, with
drawings. Digest-sized paper covers.
75 pp. Moderate wear. Ink name of a lieutenant on the front cover. Very good.
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June Samaras
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