[resource] 1st Marine Report on Cape Gloucester

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So I was poking through archive.org (aka the world's most fabulous time sink, please give them money), and found Special action report, Cape Gloucester Operation by 1st Marine Division. I haven't had too much time to look at it yet, but it seems to mostly cover training and planning in the ramp up to the actual mission, but is probably helpful to anyone writing fic set in Melbourne.

Flipping to the end, I found a table of officers dated 1 January 1944, which included in the section for 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment:




(The columns are: Name, Rank, Position, Date Left US, and the star/hash means they left the US as an enlisted man.)

First off, how are both their middle names Allison!? I'd heard that they were but assumed it was fake. Because OMG WHAT!?

Secondly, I'm dying to know what Bn-1; BnPs10 means. I'm going under the assumption that it's "We put you here until we find somewhere for you to be," but who knows.

Thirdly, I'm pretty sure the date for when Eddie left the US is a typo, not because it contradicts show canon, but because I'm not entirely sure how someone would get a battlefield commission without having been in a battle.