Description
U.S. Army Technical Manual TM 9-1375-213-34 for Demolition Materials, March 1973
Item Overview
This official U.S. Army reprint covers direct support and general support maintenance for demolition materials. The original manual was issued on March 30, 1973, and this edition includes the current pages from Changes 1 through 4. It provides higher-level maintenance and supply information for trained military personnel. This listing is for the technical manual only. It does not include explosives, demolition charges, detonators, blasting machines, tools, or other equipment.
Publication Details
This publication was prepared for military maintenance personnel and contains the repair parts and special tools list.
- Manual number: TM 9-1375-213-34
- Original publication date: March 30, 1973
- Subject: Demolition Materials
- Edition: Official reprint with current pages from Changes 1 through 4
- Maintenance level: Direct support and general support
- Additional content: Repair parts and special tools list
- Issuing authority: Headquarters, Department of the Army
- Country of origin: United States
- Item included: Technical manual only
Manual Coverage
TM 9-1375-213-34 covers inspection, cleaning, preservation, marking, packing, reconditioning, and palletizing procedures for demolition materials and related equipment. It includes guidance for repairing and testing selected 10-cap and 50-cap blasting machines. The manual also provides illustrated parts information, stock-number and part-number indexes, maintenance codes, packing materials, and lists of expendable supplies.
About the Demolition System
This manual does not cover a single weapon. It supports a larger Army system made up of demolition charges, initiating components, electrical firing equipment, containers, and maintenance supplies. These items allowed combat engineers to carry out controlled demolition missions. Reliable inspection and maintenance helped ensure that reusable equipment remained serviceable and that demolition materials were correctly identified, protected, stored, and issued.
Historical Background
The U.S. Army developed standardized demolition equipment through World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam era. By 1973, combat engineers had many specialized materials for breaching obstacles, cutting routes, creating craters, and denying roads or structures to an enemy. This manual organized the higher-level maintenance needed to support those materials during the Cold War. Changes 1 through 4 kept its technical and supply information current, while the official reprint placed the updated pages into one complete publication.
History of Use
Direct support and general support personnel used manuals like this one to inspect, repair, recondition, mark, and repack military demolition equipment. Their work supported engineer units involved in breaching, route denial, obstacle construction, cratering, and structural demolition. The 1973 manual continued to be cited in later Army demolition doctrine, showing that it remained an important maintenance reference for many years.
Collector and Research Value
This manual is a useful reference for studying Army engineer equipment, demolition-support practices, blasting machines, military packaging, and Cold War logistics. The integrated change pages also make this official reprint more convenient for research than a copy with separate update packets. It is well suited for military libraries, museum collections, historical displays, and technical-manual archives.
Condition
This vintage military technical manual may show cover wear, edge wear, folds, yellowing, stains, writing, stamps, punched holes, loose pages, or other signs of age and storage. Printing details and condition may vary between available copies.
Ideal For
This official reprint is suitable for collectors, historians, museums, and researchers interested in U.S. Army demolition equipment and combat-engineer history.
- U.S. Army technical-manual collections
- Combat-engineer and demolition research
- Cold War military-history displays
- 10-cap and 50-cap blasting-machine research
- Military packaging and logistics studies
- Museum and archival collections
Approx length 8", Approx width 11", Approx height .25", Approx weight .5lbs.
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