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Tag Archives: combat lessons
Platoon Leadership vs. NCO Efficiency
Combat lessons from the troops on platoon leadership and NCO efficiency from Combat Lessons No. 9: Platoon Leadership vs. NCO Efficiency Orders Must Be Clear NCO efficiency and squad accomplishment are materially reduced when combat orders fail to give full information … Continue reading
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Tagged combat, combat lessons, leadership, NCO, orders, training
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DUKWs at Salerno
A report on effective use of DUKWs at the Salerno landings from Combat Lessons, No. 3: DUKWs at Salerno Report of a Quartermaster Truck Battalion (DUKW), Italy: The DUKWs (amphibious 2½-ton trucks) again proved of immense value at Salerno, supplies … Continue reading
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Tagged amphibious, combat lessons, DUKW, italy, quartermaster, salerno
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Message to Messengers
“Message to Messengers” from Combat Lessons No. 6: Message to Messengers From Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Calidonna, Signal Officer, 34th Division, ITALY: “Messengers have to be good to do their job properly. They have to use a great deal of … Continue reading
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Tagged combat lessons, humor, messengers, training
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OP and CP Security
Observation post and command post security from Combat Lessons, No. 7: OP and CP Security Even at this late date, needless casualties, delays, and expenditures of effort are being caused by breaches of OP and CP security rules. The inevitable results … Continue reading
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Tagged artillery, combat lessons, command post, CP, observation post, OP
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De-Mechanized Warfare
From Combat Lessons No. 6: De-Mechanized Warfare In a gesture of protest against the trend toward complete mechanization, the wire team shown at work in the accompanying photo picked up an idle buggy in a front-line town, conscripted a “liberated” … Continue reading
Tank Operations in Sicily
Combat Lessons, No. 3 described the fighting on Sicily between U.S. Sherman tanks, Panzer IIIs and Panzer IVs of the Herman Goring Panzer Division, and Tigers of sPzAbt. 504. The Herman Goring Panzer Division lost heavily in the fighting around the … Continue reading
Don’t Scare Replacements
From “Combat Lessons” No. 7 comes the following notes on leadership and replacement orientation: Replacement Instruction—the Wrong Kind A Lieutenant comments on his ominous introduction to front-line existence: “On my way to the front as an officer replacement, I met … Continue reading
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Tagged combat lessons, leadership, morale, publications, replacements, training
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Warning to Observation Post Kibitzers
From “Combat Lessons” No. 6: Says a Captain of a Field Artillery Battalion, France: “Well-meaning infantrymen who crowd about the OP to observe the results of the firing or to steal a look through the BC telescope should be warned … Continue reading
More MG Ammunition at Hand
GI innovation from Combat Lessons, No. 6. Combat Lessons was published by the Operations Division of the War Department to give officers and enlisted men lessons from battle experiences of other soldiers. More MG Ammunition at Hand This innovation … Continue reading