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Post by EXO on Jul 14, 2014 12:02:08 GMT 8
NEW ADDITION - As part of my reference reading in support of MANILA 1945 - AFTERMATH - , due out in time for the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Manila, I have added a monograph on the Battle of Manila website entitled THE OPERATIONS OF THE 37TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN THE CROSSING OF THE PASIG RIVER AND CLOSING TO THE WALLS OF INTRAMUROS, MANILA 7 - 9 FEBRUARY 1945 by Maj. Giles H. Kidd. The paper is available as a flipping book, and as a pdf file. Although monographs written for the Infantry School deserve careful consideration, they were part of a specific assessment process, and were not written for the purposes of creating historical documents of record. They were written specifically to bring out tactical principles which were being studied, and there was no weighing of tactical principals against historical accuracy. The result is not the primary documentation of history and they were never meant to be. Read them for background and familiarity by all means, and for the military and command principles that they contain - but recognize they are not historical sources, and never quote them as primary historical documents.
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