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United States (Alfred J. Gross, Motorola SCR-300) Portable two-way radio communications system for military Portable radio communications – business, public safety, marine, amateur radio, CB radio: Night vision: 1939 - 1940s Nazi Germany. United States. Visibility for military personnel in low light situations Low light photography ...
The US Army gave a low priority to such vehicles until the need became acute. [133] The increased technological and administrative complexity was reflected in the proliferation of staff and paperwork. In the United States, the Army Service Forces inventoried 200,000 paper forms and eliminated 125,000 of them.
U.S. Army truck convoy in Mexico, 1916. The Transcontinental Motor Convoys were early 20th century vehicle convoys, including three US Army truck trains, that crossed the United States (one was coast-to-coast) to the west coast. The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco used the incomplete Lincoln Highway.
Innovation and the arms race: How the United States and the Soviet Union develop new military technologies (Cornell University Press, 2020). online; Gabriel, Richard A. Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the middle ages to the war in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2013) online. Horowitz, Michael C., and Shira Pindyck.
The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, (1977) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004). American Military History Vol. 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775–1917.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
The military history of the United States spans over two centuries, the entire history of the United States. During those centuries, the United States evolved from a newly formed nation which fought for its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain (1775–1783) to world superpower status in the aftermath of World War II to the present. [ 1 ]
Initially fuel arrived packaged in 5-US-gallon (20 L) jerricans. This was a German invention copied by the British; in the US Army it supplanted the 10-US-gallon (38 L) drum. The jerrican had convenient carrying handles, stacked easily and did not shift or roll in storage, and floated in water when filled with MT80 (80 Octane gasoline). The ...