FM 17-32 ，輕型及中型戰車連，裝甲兵野戰手冊，美國聯邦政府印務局發行，民國31年

FM 17-32 ARMORED FORCE FIELD MANUAL, THE TANK COMPANY, LIGHT AND MEDIUM, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1942

FM 17-32 ，輕型及中型戰車連，裝甲兵野戰手冊，美國聯邦政府印務局發行，民國31年《Black Water Museum Collections | 黑水博物館館藏》

SECTION I

GENERAL

1. SCOPE. a. This manual covers the tactics and tech- nique of the light and the medium tank company, and is applicable to the tank companies of both armored regiments and separate tank battalions. It supplements pertinent matter contained in FM 17-10. It covers the action of the company when acting as part of the battalion and when acting alone. The company will habitually be reinforced whether acting alone or as part of the armored battalion.

FIGURE 4 Fire and maneuver. One platoon from defiladed atationary positions, together with mortar and assault gun, supports advance of other platoons.

FIGURE 5 Fire and maneuver. After platoon has reached B it takes up firing positions to cover advance of other platoons. Mortar and assault gun displace forward.

become mired or are otherwise unable to proceed. The com- pany commander should designate an axis of maintenance. All tank crews should know this axis so that a member of the crew may be sent to contact the maintenance section as it moves forward.

(2) The maintenance section should expect to meet re- sistance from isolated groups of enemy passed over by the company. It may have to fight its way through and it may have to repair or extricate vehicles under fire. It uses the fire power of its veher weapons and the tank to cover the men working on the disabled vehicle.

(3) The maintenance section will estimate the extent of the damage to any tank which is disabled beyond the capabil- ity of the section to repair, and will transmit this information, with the location of the disabled vehicle, to the regimental maintenance platoon.

SECTION IV

SECURITY

16. GENERAL-a. Security in general of armored units is covered in FM 17-10. Each unit from the highest to the lowest is responsible for its own security. A commander must always take adequate measures to prevent being surprised. This must be the case whether in bivouac, on the march, in the attack, or in a rallying position.

b. The senior commander is responsible for general security but this in no way relieves subordinate commanders of the responsibility for local security.

17. SECURITY IN BIVOUAC-a. The company secures itself in bivouac by dispersing its vehicles and by placing tanks so that their weapons will cover avenues of approach and posts dismounted men armed with submachine guns at points of observation. (See FM 17-10.) If infantry is available. it is usually used for this purpose. Otherwise members of tank crews must be used.

b. Security must be adequate, but it must be so organized that men get the maximum rest.

c. Each platoon and the company must always have one man awake at the CP to give an alarm. Tank crews must be

FIGURE 13-One man must be awake to give alarm some vehiciss must be sited to cover approaches