World War II: Field Interviews with Marine Corps Officers on the Guadalcanal Operations

World War II: Field Interviews with Marine Corps Officers on the Guadalcanal Operations

A 114-page report produced in 1943, titled, "Interviews and Statements by Officers of the 1st. Marine Division on the Guadalcanal Operations, Compiled by Colonel B. Q. Jones, G.S.C., 5 December 1942, to 19 January 1943.”

The report is the distillation of lessons learned from interviews of Marine Corps officers conducted in 1942/43 on their combat experiences on Guadalcanal.            

Interviews and statements compiled by Colonel B.Q. Jones, G.S.C., December 5, 1942, to January 19, 1943. Sections detail the following information. Tab B: amphibious training directive. Tab C: shore base organization- draft- for an infantry division. Tab D: lessons of the Solomon operations for overseas operations and jungle combat. Tab E: proposed subjects for jungle warfare training program- draft- list of subjects only. Tab F: overseas operations. Tab G: war in the Southwest Pacific. This document contains "Note on jungle warfare from the U.S. Marines and U.S. Infantry on Guadalcanal Island" (page 82).

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