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The Bluejacket's Manual is the basic handbook for United States Navy personnel. First issued in 1902 to teach recruits about naval procedures and life and offer a reference for active sailors, it has become the "bible" for Navy personnel, providing information about a wide range of Navy topics.
Introduced from 1 June 1939 to replace Blue (and the most recent descendant of the Red code), [12] it was an enciphered code, producing five-numeral groups for transmission. New code books and super-enciphering books were introduced from time to time, each new version requiring a more or less fresh cryptanalytic attack.
Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force study on UFOs in the 1950s and 1960s; Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, a Revolutionary War drill manual colloquially referred to as the "Blue Book" Blue Book, American name for a World War II Japanese naval code
Case Blue (German: Fall Blau) was the Wehrmacht 's plan for the 1942 strategic summer offensive in southern Russia between 28 June and 24 November 1942, during World War II.
Called the "Blue Book" by civil defense professionals in reference to its solid blue cover, it was the template for legislation and organization that occurred over the next 40 years. [5] Despite a general agreement on the importance of civil defense, Congress never came close to meeting the budget requests of federal civil defense agencies ...
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany, by historian and best selling author Stephen Ambrose, was a New York Times best selling non-fiction book published in 2001. It details the lives and World War II experiences of pilots , bombardiers , navigators , radio operators and gunners flying B-24 bombers of the U.S. Army Air ...
American Revolutionary War; Armed Forces: United States; Continental Army → Commander-in-Chief → Regional departments → Units (1775, 1776, 1777–1784) → Manual Continental Navy
Armed Services Editions (ASEs) were small paperback books of fiction and nonfiction that were distributed in the American military during World War II.From 1943 to 1947, some 122 million copies of more than 1,300 ASE titles were published and printed by the Council on Books in Wartime (CBW) and distributed to service members, with whom they were enormously popular.