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Adjutant arrangement auxiliary defenses axis Bags of cement barrier battens Beams Sill berths Blockhouse bombardment bottom bracing cloths communication trench confidential constructed cord Cross section DEEP GALLERY SHELTERS diameter documents dugout earth Emergency exit Entrance Entrance Entrance Shelter Entrance EXTERIOR DEFENSE fire front furnished grenades ground H. P. MCCAIN half platoon horizontal interval joint junction landing place large caliber Lattice latticework length line A-B Lintel logs loopholes means ments meters a day municated niches Oblique descent obstacles obstruct OFFICE ordinary frame overturning panel party pick and shovel plank door Platform for Grenadier precautions Prepared Traverse prevent Principal gallery projectile Prop Protect the interior rifle rifleman rolling Roof beam sand bags SECRETARY OF WAR shell hole side by side simple traverses sliding small drain sufficient surface Thick plank timber Tools underground unit uprights virgin soil WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON wedged width Wire entanglement
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Page 3 - ... in your personal possession, and are not to be copied, nor are . • any parts of their contents to be communicated either directly or -' indirectly to the press, nor to any persons not in the military or naval service of the United States. In Europe these documents are not to be carried into the front line trenches, nor farther to the front than the usual post of the officers to whom issued.
Page 3 - To all officers of the Army: You are advised that this and all subsequent documents of a similar character which may be furnished to you from this office are to be regarded as strictly confidential. They are to be kept at all times in your personal possession, and are not to be copied, nor are any parts of their contents to be communicated either directly or indirectly to the press, nor to any persons not in the military or naval service of the United States.
Page 3 - AGO] . *. . . BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR : •, - /.\ . TASKER H. BLISS, Major General, Acting Chief of Staff. OFFICIAL : HP McCAIN, . The Adjutant General.
Page 3 - ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June 19, 1917. To all officers of the Army: You are advised that this and all subsequent documents of a similar character which may be furnished you from this office are to be regarded as strictly confidential. They are to be kept at all times in your personal possession and are not to be copied nor are any parts of their contents to be communicated either directly or indirectly to the press...