Small Problems for Infantry

Alfred William Bjornstad

Press of the Army service schools, 1917 - Infantry drill and tactics - 191 pages

Contents

• IntroductionTo company commanders: 7
• Organization of first platoon: 12
• Conventional signs: 13
• First problemAn advance guard point: 15
• The point marches out: 17
• Road space and estimating numbers: 18
• The point marches too slowly: 19
• Leaving the road for observation: 20
• The point discovers a Red patrol: 21
• The enemy fires on the advance party: 22
• The point as a march outpost: 24
• Second problemAn advance guard connecting file: 25
• When to use signals: 26
• Care in transmitting signals: 27
• Maintaining distance: 28
• Third problemAn advance guard flank patrol: 29
• The patrol starts out: 30
• Waiting for the advance party: 33
• Passing through woods: 34
• On emerging from woods: 35
• A road formation: 36
• The patrol continues by a new route: 37
• The patrol drives off a Red Cavalry patrol: 38
• Returning to the column: 39
• Fourth problemThe platoon as an advance party: 41
• The point loiters: 45
• The advance party attacks: 50
• The march is resumed: 52
• The enemy fires from the left flank: 53
• The advance party replies: 55
• The advance party and support attack: 56
• Fifth problemA combat patrol: 59
• Drives off small patrol: 63
• Posting the patrol: 64
• Sixth problemA picket I The first disposition: 69
• Preparations for the night: 74

Bibliographic information

• Title: Small Problems for Infantry
• Author: Alfred William Bjornstad
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Press of the Army service schools, 1917
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Oct 4, 2012
• Length: 191 pages