| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 18 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16176 |
| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - MS RH 18
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Hunt, Milton T.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Use of armor in Luzon /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Milton T. Hunt
- Medium - [manuscript]
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - s.n.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1948?].
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 13, [1] leaves, [1] leaf of plates :
- Other physical details - 1 map ;
- Dimensions - 32 x 25 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
- General note - Typescript (carbon copy). Caption title. Research report prepared at the US Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Ky. as [military monographs].
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Military monograph on the US Army’s use of tanks and armored forces in the battle to liberate Luzon from the Japanese in 1945. Details plans and preparations, initial landings in Lingayen Gulf, operations from Lingayen to Central Luzon, where much fighting was experienced in the Clark Field and Fort Stotsenburg area, and then on to tanks in the Battle for Manila.
Hunt winds up this monograph with a discussion of tank operations in the mountains of Luzon. Hunt focuses his narrative on the operations of the 754th Tank Battalion, of which he apparently belonged to; the experience of this battalion, to him, as typical of the experience of other tank battalions in Luzon. Criticizes the breakup of the 754th Tank Battalion: in February two companies of the battalion were in Manila, one was in Bataan and the last was still in the Clark-Stotsenburg area. When the war ended in September 1945, the battalion was still split: one company was in Legaspi, two were in Panay and one was in Aparri. This led to lesser effectivity and also a drop in morale, apart from command and logistical problems. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - United States. Army. Tank Battalion, 754th.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Luzon.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Tank warfare.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 754th Tank Battalion (US)
- Uncontrolled term - armor
- Uncontrolled term - Luzon liberation campaign
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine liberation campaign
- Uncontrolled term - tanks
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| Uniform Title |
- Uniform title - Military monographs.
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