War Dogs – TM 10-396 War Department Technical Manual (1943 World War II Civilian Reference Edition): Unabridged Historic Military Handbook on … Breeds, Animal Care, and Training Procedures

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A Comprehensive Historic Handbook on Military Working Dog Care and Training

Build your library with this unabridged, high-quality World War II Civilian Reference Edition facsimile reissue of the official War Dogs – TM 10-396 War Department Technical Manual, 1943 release. This historic unclassified civilian reference edition manual features the principles and procedures of dog training for military work of various types, including descriptions of multiple breeds for service.

Contents include discussions on historic procedures for military dog selection, care, and training. Chapters include traits of dogs, selection of dogs for military service, breeds of dogs suitable for service (including retriever, collie, shepherd, rottweiler, dane, mastiff, dalmatian, and spaniel), feeding, kenneling, grooming, prevention of disease and injury, care of dogs, basic training of dogs (including commands like heel, sit, down, cover, stay, come, and crawl), getting dogs used to cars and muzzles, and historic specialized training programs for military procedures.

Learn how things were historically done in the military for personal enrichment and historical study by learning from the classic knowledge of the American soldier. Great for learning the history behind the ins-and-outs of principles for survival and naval operations. Not just for military personnel, this book is a great gift for outdoors enthusiasts, backpackers, campers, hikers, hunters, scouts, military history enthusiasts, and veterans!

A part of the Doublebit Military Handbooks Collection.

This Doublebit Historic Edition reprint of War Dogs TM 10-396 (1943) is professionally restored and presented from the original facsimile source with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Available in both paperback and hardcover, readers can enjoy this historic Civilian Reference Edition reissue for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.

About the Doublebit Military Handbooks Collection

By publishing the Military Outdoors Skills Series, it is our goal at Doublebit Press to do what we can to preserve and share historic unclassified and available-to-the-public military works, such as army field manuals (the FM series), technical manuals (the TM series), Naval Training Publications, and other military books from other branches that hold timeless knowledge about the history of the armed services and their procedures, self-sufficiency, specialized trades and skills, outdoors life, navigation, and survival. Through remastered reprint editions of military handbooks and field manuals, we can preserve the knowledge of time-tested skills and institutional knowledge that was learned through hard lessons and training by the U.S. Military and our expert soldiers.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Doublebit Press (April 16, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 164389207X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643892078
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.37 x 9 inches