The Snapshots in Time Collection
Confidential Leadership Memorandum, HQ 7th Infantry Division, 18 January 1944 (Maj. Gen. Charles H. Corlett)
A confidential leadership memorandum issued by Major General Charles H. Corlett, commanding the 7th Infantry Division, on 18 January 1944 -- shortly before the division's amphibious assault on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The memo urges officers and NCOs toward decisive, coordinated small-unit leadership as the division prepared for combat. Project: 218651