Weapons #11: Bayonet Fighting, Vol. 2

Bayonet Training: Lecture Delivered to the Students of the Plattsburg R.O.T.C. Camp  1918
A previously unpublished lecture given by Lt. Gaylord Hancock of the 42nd Infantry to members of the Second Officers’ Training Camp at Plattsburg in 1918.  4 pages.

Elements of Trench Warfare/Bayonet Training
A 53-page excerpt (pages 173-225) from the book by Lt. Col. William H. Waldron.  Illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a foldout drawing.

Hand to Hand Fighting: The Use of the Bayonet
A book prepared by Capt. Haskell C. Billings & Capt. Harry B. Johnson, a former Canadian and a former British officer, based on the need for such a manual discovered during the Second Officers’ Training Camp at Ft. Oglethorpe, GA.  Also interesting in the fact that it uses U.S. Army soldiers in the photographs—one of the few publications that did not copy British illustrations.  89 pages, illustrated with photographs.

Bayonet Fighting
A commercially published manual prepared by Capt. Leopold McLaglen of the British Army, who claimed to have developed a new bayonet system that was used in training British and Australian troops.  85 pages, illustrated with photographs.

Bayonet Training Manual Used by the British Forces
A reformatted reprint of the British bayonet training manual of 1916 that was originally published by the Infantry Journal in 1917.  66 pages, illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Bayonet Training, 1916
British manual that heavily influenced American bayonet training and doctrine.  Many of the illustrations used in this manual can be seen throughout U.S. Army bayonet fighting publications.  32 pages, plus 16 un-numbered photographs and drawings.

Price: $30

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