"This text is published for use in courses at The Ordinance School. The various items of equipment used for recovery and evacuation work are described from the point of view of the recovery crew. Tabulated data on each vehicle; instructions on the operation of winches, booms, and other accessories; and special precautions to be heeded in the use of this equipment are included. The rigging used in recovery work is covered in detail in one chapter and is applicable in the operation of all vehicles. Volume 1 deals with the general principles of recovery and with rigging. Volume 2 describes the most important vehicles used in recovery and evacuation."--Page 3.

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Volume 1 --General -- Principles of recovery -- Rigging -- Volume 2 -- Truck, wrecker, 4-ton, 6x6 -- Truck, wrecking, heavy, M1 -- Truck, trailer, 45-ton, tank transporter, M19 -- Truck, trailer, 40-ton, tank recovery, M25 -- Vehicle, tank recovery, T5 series -- Appendix I Characteristics of materiel to be recovered -- Appendix II List of references.