War Department,
Office of the Chief of Staff,
Washington, February 20, 1918.

The following Manual of the Bayonet, prepared by a board consisting of Capt. Herschel Tupes, First Infantry, and Capt. Grosvenor L. Townsend, First Infantry, is approved and issued for the information and government of the Regular Army and the Organized Militia of the United States.

By order of the Secretary of War.

Leonard Wood,
Major General, Chief of Staff.