Guy S. Meloy papers.

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Guy S. Meloy papers.

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General description of the collection: The collection includes correspondence from Guy S. Meloy to the Director of the United States Military History Institute as well as twenty pages of comments regarding the inaccuracies of S.L.A. Marshall's book Ambush. As a commander of eleven rifle companies which participated in Operation Attleboro, Meloy disputes large portions of Marshall's book.

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Marshall, S.L.A. (Samuel Lyman Atwood), 1900-1977

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Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall, also known as Slam, (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977) was a military journalist and historian. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, before leaving to work as a journalist, specialising in military affairs. In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and re-entered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He officiall...

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United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd

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Meloy, Guy S., 1903-1968

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Guy S. Meloy, Jr. (b. Sept. 4, 1903, Lanham, Maryland-d. Dec. 14, 1968), General in the U.S. Army, graduated from West Point in 1927. Among many other assignments, he served in the first tank destroyer battalion organized in the U.S. Army and was chief of staff, 103rd Infantry Division during World War II in Europe. Following the War, he was a professor of military science and tactics and, later, commander of the 24th Infantry Division, serving in combat during the Korean War when seriously woun...