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The Lens of History's avatar

I welcome a focus on U.S. Army unit actions below the divisional level. British and Commonwealth military history is battalion or regiment centric, but that gap exists for their U.S. counterparts.

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

The collection of student papers at the Donovan Library is dragon's hoard of first-hand accounts.

https://www.benning.army.mil/Library/Donovanpapers/wwii/index.html

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Tyler Fox's avatar

Goldmine! That’s where I found CPT Ward’s. Lots of good ones for building DFCs in there.

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

GMTA! I use the collection to teach Marines how to develop their own DFCs.

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