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Post by EXO on Jun 21, 2010 20:46:36 GMT 8
All modifications and work on the website is suspended until further notice.
The cause has been the failure of my primary hard disk. Most everything is backed up elsewhere but the information and data cannot be accessed and assessed until the desktop can be entirely re-commissioned.
E-mails and their enclosures, for the past several months have been lost. Same too the address book.
exo
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Post by EXO on Jul 2, 2010 13:23:11 GMT 8
Well, we're back in action - if you can call it that. A new data disk has been acquired for the desktop and installed and we are gradually rebuilding all of the things which the System Image backup failed to do. Mary Claire Megargle, as part of our volunteers wanted program, has transcribed the Operation of the "Rock Force" on Corregidor - Personal Experience of an Assistant Regimental Operation Officer - the paper submitted by Capt. Magnus L. Smith to the Infantry School when he took the Advanced Infantry Officers Course in 1949-50. If you do take the time to read it, be cautious that it isn't a historical document, but a paper written to illustrate the "School Solution" and thus isn't Gospel. For example, I particularly like his telling that at a staff meeting at Topside on the evening of the 20th February, there was an intelligence report that " there were no Japs to oppose our forces from Wheeler Pt to Searchlight Pt.” DUH!!! Tell that to "D" and "E" Co's. As we know all too well, the Japanese at Btry Monja/Wheeler Point were NEVER beaten! In 1945, Capt. Smith was the Assistant Regimental Operations Officer of the 503d PRCT. By June 1960, as an LTC, he commanded a clandestine special ops Team II inserted in Laos, "Operation White Star." The article starts at: Once again, I thank Mary for the time and effort she put into assisting us. Gee, what would it be like to have a Bn of folk like her, with her positive attitude!
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