Re: "Operation Punch and the Capture of Hill 440"

[James Robert Dennis III <jrdennis@earthlink.net>]

>Marshall, Samuel Lyman Atwood.
>Operation Punch and the Capture of Hill 440: Suwon, Korea, February, 1951.
>Operations Research Office, 1952.
>OCLC: 4803349
>91 pages
>
>STATE     LOCATIONS
>VA        Joint Staff College
>DC        Center for Military History (US Army)
>PA        Military Historica Institute
>TX        University of Texas, El Paso
>
>Mike
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Looking at the SLA Marshall papers.  There are probably a bunch at Ft. 
Leavenworth (C&GSC Library), I remember seeing and reading a bunch of his 
stuff there some years ago.

The University of Texas, El Paso.  SLA Marshall was a newspaper man his 
entire life (with pauses for things like World War I, World War II, Korea 
and Viet Nam).  He covered the Spanish Civil War as a newspaper 
correspondent.    Marshall retired as editor of the El Paso Herald in the 
70s as I recall.  I believe that he left his papers to that school. (The 
former Texas School of Mines).  

While some people will always carp and whine about Marshall's 
observations, he was never a number cruncher, he was first and foremost a 
newspaperman and his reporter's notebook and his observation abilities 
gave him a very unique insight.  If anyone were to read his book on the 
battle of Saipan, you will find his formula for getting troops to talk 
and it is interesting that the Observer Controller Handbooks for the 
National Training Centers and the Battle Command Training Program almost 
match his 1943 list word for word.