Casualties due to German Bombs, and Anti-Aircraft Gunnery. Booklets included: (Predicting Combat Effects - August 1991); (The Influence of the Numerical Strength of Engaged Forces on their Casualties - October 1915); (Forced Changes in Combat Posture - July 1989); (Evaluation of 0.50 Inch (12.7mm) Armour Piercing, Incendiary, Tracer, Ball and High Performance Ammunition - October 1985); (Modelling DNBI for Threat: A Pilot Study of the Possible Contribution of UK Records of Naval DNBI - August 1990); (Readiness Technologies Advanced Development Threat Related Attrition (Threat) Temporary Facility Model Concept Exploration Scientific and Technical Report - December 1992); (A Survey of Suppression Volume I Corrigendum - February 1989); (A Survey of Suppression Volume IV - September 1988); (History of the Shaped Charge Effect, The First 100 Years - September 1983); (Casulties due to German Bombs in World War II: Persons in Anderson Shelters Vol 1: Description and Derivation of Data - February 1988); (Statistical Methods and Formulae - November 1964); (Department of Chemistry & Metallury Explosive Terms and Definitions - June 1978); (Ground Forces Casualty Rate Patterns The Empirical Evidence - September 1989); (Anti-Aircraft Gunnery - January 1948); (The Dynamic of Rotating Projectiles - August 1945); (Notes on Anti-Aircraft Gunnery - 1941); (Text Book of Ballistics and Gunnery Part II Section III Theoretical Principles of Gun Construction - March 1941); (Small arms and light weapons: An annotated Bibliography, Update 1996-1998 - September 1998).
Operational Research Booklets on Armoured Vehicles and the Effects and Problems of Ballistics and Gunnery. Booklets Included: (The Geometrical Theory of Sighting Systems - 1943); (Introduction to the Main Problem of External Ballistics - 1943); (The Effect of Variations in Loading Conditions in Internal Ballistics - 1945); (The Mathematics of Field Gunnery - ?); (Ballistics Pamplet No 9R Dispersion of Fire and Target Analysis - November 1961); (Armored Fighting Vehicles Comparison - 1971); (Army Staff Course Division I Telecommunication Study Academic Precis - January 1983); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery - 1946); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery - 1947); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamphlet No.1 Definitions, Motion in Vacuo and Laws of Air Resistance - 1948); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamphlet No. 2 Siacci Equations, Primary and Secondary Ballistic Functions, Use of Ballistics Tables - 1954); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 3 Stability and Drift - 1951); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 4 Meteorlogy and Meteorlogical Corrections - 1952); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 5 Small Arc Calculations - 1957); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 6 The Construction of Range Tables - 1954); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 8 Sighting - 1946); (Textbook of Ballistics and Gunnery Pamplet No. 9 Dispersion of Fire - 1947); (History of the Research & Experiments Department Ministry of Home Security 1939 - 1945); (HS Freeth Papers Summary of 65 Cases Collected by Lt. Col. Freeth - ?); (Landing Operations Doctrine United States Navy - 1938)
A report describes the work carried out by the Operational Research Section, Bomber Command, from its inception in 1941 to the end of World War II. Including the history of the advent of radar techniques (H2S, OBOE, GEE-H) and communication methods. Includes duplicates of pages.
Readings on Early Military Operational Research. Operational Research on Sources of Suppression. Booklets included: (A Survey of Suppression: Suggestions for Future Work - January 1989); (A Survey of Suppression: A Revised List of Sources - January 1989); (Notes on WWII Work on Suppression by Bombardment - February 1995); (A Survey of Suppression: Volume I - II - September 1987); (An Extended List of Sources on Suppression - June 1994); (A Survey of Suppression: Volume III - September 1988); (A Survey of Suppression: Volume IV - January 1989); (A Survey of Suppression: A Revised List of Sources - January 1989); (Suppression Survey Progress Report to 31 July 1987 - July 1987); (Readings on Early Military Operational Research (With Particular Reference to Army OR) - March 1984); (A Bibliography of (Mainly) Army Operational Research: 1939 - 48 - August 1982); (Threat Related Attrition (Threat) Gound Attack Casualty Estimation Modification, Concept Exploration - August 1992)
Operational Research for the Air Forces at Home and Overseas and Lost or Damaged British Merchant Vessels. Armies Standardization Program. Booklets Included: (Microcomputer Patient Flow Model Micro-PFM - July 1988); (Army Operational Research Group Occasional Note No. 15 Rules of the A.O.R.G. Tactical War Game Parts I and II - February 1958); (Army Operational Research Group War Game No. 300); (Advanced Squad Leader Rules - ?); (Resource Allocation for Defense Determination of Optimum Weapon Mix - September 1965); (Introduction to Trials Management Course - ?); (Operational Research in the Army Post 1945 Historical Notes - December 1992); (Armies Standardization Program Catalog of War Games, Training Games, and Combat Simulations - February 1988); (British Merchant Vessels Lost of Damaged by Enemy Action during Second World War - 1947); (A Preliminary Assessment of Casualties in Rear Areas due to Individual Attacks by Long Range Weapons - March 1995); (A Bibliography of Operational Research for the Air Forces at Home and Overseas 1939-46 - April 1987).
Operational Research on Battlefield Exhaustion, Ballistics, and Industrial Experimentation. Booklets Included (The Indian National Army: A Preliminary Study of its Formation and Campaigns - 1985); (A Survey of Suppression: Volume III - January 1989); (RAC Publications List - February 1972); (Rates of Advance - 1965); (Rules of Play Part III - ?); (Notes on Ballistic Computation - 1942); (Tables of Ballistic Coefficients for Various Projectiles used in Naval and Land Service Ordnance - 1945); (Staff Officers' Hand Book - 1980); (Military Political & Social History of the 20th Century Catalog 18C - ?); (Military College of Science Publication on Recoil - December 1945); (Industrial Experimentation Memorandum No. 18 - June 1945); (Battle Exhaustion: Psychiatrists and Soldiers in the Canadian Army 1939 to 1945 - 1989).
Operational Research Abstracts and Accuracy of Field Army Artillery. Booklets Included (Accuracy of Field Army Artillery Fire Committee Pamplets Volume I - May 1947); (Report on the Military Service of Burt Waldheim - ?); (Abstracts of Reports and Memoranda issues by A.O.R.G. and Operational Research Sections 1942 to 1945 Volume I - January 1947); (Operational Research Abstracts August 1948 - December 1951 Volume IV - May 1952)
Operational Research on Damage to and Casualties from German Bombs in WWII and Suppression Report. Booklets Included: (The Mathematics of Coast Gunnery - 1943); (NATO Seminar on Detection, Recognition, and Identification of Line-Of-Sight Targets Proceedings Vol I - August 1969); (Mathematics in Military Operational Research - September 1973); (Suppression Effects Study Volume I: Main Report - March 1989); (Army Operational Research Group War Game No. 301 - April 1959); (Suppression Effects Study Volume II - Annexes - October 1990); (Damage to and Casualties in Houses due to German bombs in World War II Volume II: Incidents 33 to 62 - December 1989)
Operational Research on Casualties and Damage to Houses and Tank Crews. Booklets Included: (Experimental Data on Damage to Anderson Shelters - January 1990); (Injuries to Tank Crews A Guide to the Data-base and the Data Forms - March 1991); (Casualties and Damage to Houses in the Wandworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 3, 6 - January 1990); (Casualties and Damage to Anderson Shelters in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 3 - December 1989)
Catalog of Wargaming and Military Simulation Models. Operational Research to Injuries of Tank Crews and Technical Manual for Radar Equipment. Booklets Included: (Technical Manual for M.E.W. Radar Equipment - September 1944); (Injuries to Tank Crews Volume II Western Desert 1942 Part 3 - February 1991); (Rational Analysis Revisited Proceedings of a One-day Event on Problem Structuring Methods - March 1995); (Catalog of Wargaming and Military Simulation Models 11th Edition - September 1989)
Operational Research on Casualties and Damage to Houses. Booklets Included: (Casualties and Damage to Anderson Shelters in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 4 - December 1989); (Casuaties and Damage to Houses in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 1 - January 1990); (A Bibliography of Reports on War-Time Fire Research - December 1988); (Casualties and Damage to Houses in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 2 - January 1990)
Operational Research on Fires Caused and Damage done by German HE Bombs in Air Raids on the UK. Booklets Included: (Operational Analyses of Infantry Actionsand Weapons: WWII and Limited Wars to 1958 - April 1986); (War Game II Rule Book - March 1964); (The Shock Action of Tanks - December 1988); (A Short Survey of Writings by the Oxford Extra Mural Unit on Air-Raid Casualties during WWII - May 1988); (A Bibliography of Operational Research for the Air Forces at Home and Overseas 1939-46 - September 1985); (Casualties and Damage to Houses in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 5 - January 1990); (Fire Caused by HE Bombs in Air Raids on Uk in World War II: Abstracts and Analyses of Data - December 1988); (Damage to Industrial Structures and Contents from German HE Bombs Progress Report to 1 May 1988 - April 1988); (Fire Caused by HE Bombs in Air Raids on UK in World War II: Abstracts and Analyses of Data - December 1988)
Operational Research Booklets on WWII bombing and damage. Booklets Included: (Artillery Survey Pocket Book Five Figure Logarithms - 1924); (The Royal Military College of Science - The Drift of Projectiles - 1971); (Operational Research Quarterly - ?); (OR Forum British Operational Research in World War II - 1986); (Ministry of Defense Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment Report I/84 Assessment of the Physical Effectiveness of Artillery Fire - 1984); (Casualties and Damage to Houses in the Wandsworth Shelter Survey June - August 1944 Part 4 - 1990); (Bomb Damage to Bridges in World War II Volume I, II, III - 1991); (A Review of The Blast Casualty Rules Applicable to U.K. Houses - 1986); (Miscellaneous World War II Unit and Weapon Reports - ?)
Operational Research on Ballistics. Booklets included: (Army Operational Research Abstracts 1955 to 1961 Volume VI - December 1962); (Readings on Early Military Operational Research (With Particular Reference to Army OR).
Operational Research Abstracts. Booklets Included (Operational Research Abstracts - 1946 with some hitherto unpublished abstracts for 1942-1945 - May 1947); (Army Operational Research Abstracts Volume VII 1962 to 1964 - January 1965); (Operational Research Abstracts January 1952 to December 1954 Volume V - April 1955); (Operational Research Abstracts 1948 - April 1948).
File consists of correspondence, conference papers, conference proceedings, newspaper and journal excerpts on OR topics ranging from theory to WWII projects.
Operational Research on Casualties and Damage to Industrial Buildings from German Bombs in WWII. Booklets Included (Damage to Industrial Structures by German HE Bombs in WWII Volume I: Introduction and Damage Proformae for 50KG, 100KG and 250KG Bombs - September 1988); (Casualties due to German Bombs in World War II: Persons in Anderson Shelters Vol 2: Casualty Proformae AS/1 to AS/18 - February 1988); (Wargaming as a Technique in the study of operational research problems - 1962); (An Appraisal of some of the problems of measurement in Operational Research - 1961); (In-Service Equipment Management Course - ?); (Rules of the A.O.R.G. Tactical Wargame Parts I, II and III - February 1958); (The Relationship between the Velocity losses and physical properties of long-rod penetrators - September 1988); (Liquid Propellants for Tank Guns: Notes on Logistical Considerations); (The Preparation of Future Systems Group Reports, Memoranda, Technical Notes and World Papers - May 1987).
Topics include the science of operational research, operational research in defence decision-making, in industry and government, and teaching.
Topics include war gaming (approximately half box contents), land warfare, classification, procurement, ordnance and morale tests, resource allocation, air combat, stock theory, nuclear planning.