Item GRACEY 2/24 - Battle instructions for 20 Infantry Division, Sep-Nov 1944

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GRACEY 2/24

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Battle instructions for 20 Infantry Division, Sep-Nov 1944

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  • 1944 Sep 9 - 1944 Nov 19 (Creation)

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81pp

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File containing six typescript battle instructions for 20 Infantry Div by Gracey, entitled, 'Instructions for the advance to contact, when contact is imminent', 'Notes on Burmese villages and villagers-upper and lower Burma', 'Cross-country movement', 'Practical application of the element of surprise in battle against Japanese', 'Planning a deliberate attack, 'Notes on Japanese tactics'; 20 Div Intelligence and security directives; typescript answers from a questionnaire by a Canadian officer, on the fighting strengths of the Japanese; typescript chronology of Burma campaign Oct 1943 to Sep 1944; typescript ration scales; notes for training of 20 Indian Infantry Div, including a pamphlet of 'General Instructions for Exercises', by General Headquarters, India (Ceylon Government Press, Colombo, Ceylon, 1943). 1 pamphlet. 81pp.

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