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CONTENTS

Introduction

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vu

Usernstructions -

x

BIBLIOGRAPHYOFDOCUMENTS .

AFTER-ACTION

REPORTS

-

STUDIES . 9

INDEXBYSUBJECTS

AND

NAMES .7

INDEX

BY

AMERICAN

MILITARY

UNITS

.1

CHRONOLOGICAL

LIST

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INTRODUCTION

War

Studiesand

After-Action

Reports

ispart

of

a series

titled

Armed

Forces

Oral

Histories.

This

series

will

together

collections

organized

around

oral

history

inter-

broadlyrelated

to

the

historyofthe

United

States Armed

n

war

and

peace.

TheKoreanconflict

from

thestandpoint ofnational

policy

strategy,

was

the

first

"limited"

war

of

the

Cold

arera.Determinedtoavoidye tanother

world

war andthe

us e

ofnuclear

weapons,

theAdministration

of

Harry

Trumanhad decided,inthe

wordsof

George

C.

Marshall,

...to

contain

Communistaggression...without

esorting

total war. "Tomany

ofthe

Army

andMarine

unitscom-

to

combat,however,

the

war

in

Koreawas

as

total

as

be

imagined.Thoughairandnavaloperationswerea

of

the

overall

military

picture,

the

Korean

conflict

was

romtheoutsetavastand often

vicious

groundwarin

which

frontlines

ranged

over

hundreds

of

miles,often

shifted

andometimeseemedodisappearaltogether.

were

high

y

an y

measure.

ThechallengesposedbytheKorean

conflict

suggested

the

eed

tosystematicallygather

information

onhe

activities

majorAmericanunits.Thevalueof

historical

accounts

been

demonstrated

during

the

Second

World

War ,when

historians

followed

the

progress

of

American

soldiers

y

conductingextensiveinterviews

and

compilingvaluable

ecords

of

combat actions.The

resulting

se t

of

interviewsand

elated

materials

hasbeen

reproduced

aspartoftheArmed

Oral

Histories

series.Se e

WWII

Combat

Interv iews.

While

onducting

nterviews

nd

ollecting

elated

materialsfor

historical

purposes,

Armyinvestigatorsduring

the

Second

W orld

W ar

also

compiled

combatnformation

inAfter-ActionReportsdesignedforimmediate

wartimeuse.

hese

parallel

activitiesoverlappedinboth

form

and

func-

tion.Army

historians

produced

accurate

narrative

accounts

ofcombatactionsthatwereofobvioususefulnessto

com-

manders

in

thefield.At

the

samet ime,the

historiansfound

hat

the

After-ActionReportsproducedtoprovide

direct

in -

formation

o

commanders

were

useful

n

compiling

heir

histories.

After

the

Second

W orld

War,

theUnited

States Arm y,focus-

n gontheinter-relatednatureof

historical

and

operational

fact-finding

activities,

decided

to

combine

these

functions.

hen

warbroke

out

in

Korea,

however,

he

Army

reverted

o

its

previouspracticeofconstructing

battlefieldreportsfor

urrentoperationalpurposes,

and

parallelbut

separate

de -

ailedhistorical

accounts

forfutureuse.

TheAssistantChiefs

fStaff

within

the

Department

ofthe

Armywereresponsi-

l e

for recordingandtransmitting"lessonslearned"as

they

eresometimescalledwithin

respective

spheres,

whilethe

istorical

detachments

were

left

toperformtheirspecialrole.

Attheoutset

of

the

Korean

conflict,

thus,

Armyhistorians

wereallowedto

pursue

theirow nmissiontocreatea

de -

tailed

historical

record

that

couldbeused

after

theconflict

to

write

officialhistories.The

suddennessofthe

conflictand

related

difficulties

delayed

early

deployment

of

historical

units.

Eventually,

however,

eight

historical

detachmentswere

organizedandcommittedtoKoreabetweenFebruary1 5 and

July

22 ,

951.Thoughthe

historical

detachments'

Reports

and

tudies

aralleled

nd

ve n

uplicated

ome

f

he

"lessonslearned"afteractionactivitiesofotherunits,the

historical

detachmentsdevelopedtheirmaterials.

Introductionto

theIndex

and

Microfiche

Collection

The

After-ActionReports

andStudies

produced

y

he

historicaletachments

rovide

round-leveleportage

f

militaryeventsinKoreathatis

uniquely

detailedandcom-

prehensive.

Despite

this

fact,

this

collection

has

neverbeen

reproducedinmicroform.

Now,

for

the

first

t ime,

Korean

War

Studies

andAfter-Action

Reports

indexand

companion

microfiche

collection

provide

researchers

the

most

comprehensive

coverage

possible

to

these

heretofore

naccessiblematerials.

This

collectionsdrawn

from

thearchives

of

the

Center

for

Military

Historyofthe

United

tates

Army

nd

ncludespproximately50

documents

on

50

microfiche.

All

ndex

sectionsaremorefullydescribedbelowunder

User

nstructions.

Themicrofichecollectioncontains

copies

ofal lmaterials

indentified

in

the

ReferenceBibliography

and

Indexes.

The

originaldocumentshave

been

eproducedonilver

halide

f i lm,

in

negative

polarity,

at

a reductionratio

of

29:1

for

texts,

and20:1

or

mapsandoversizedmaterials.

Themicrofichefull

texts

arenumberedandorganizedto

correspondotheorganizationof

listings

inthe

Reference

Bibliography.his

ermitsirectccess

oul l

exts

n

microfichefrom

all

references

containedin

the

bibliography

and

ndex

listings.

Organizationofthe

Military

Detachments

The

Armyrganizedhemilitary

istoryetachments

against

the

backdrop

ofsudden

mobilization.Like

the

United

States

Army

in

general,

thehistoricaldetachmentswere

faced

withtheimperativeneedto

locatemanpower,provideorien-

tation,

training,

and

equipment,

and

establish

procedures

for

operations.

Within

the

context

of

a

peacetimeArmy

that

had

beenjoltedintoaction

by

theunexpectedconflict,noneof

thesewereeasytasks.

The

eight

historical

detachmentsthat

produced

materials

included

in

this

collection

were

activated

in

the

United States

andwerequicklystaffedprimarily

with

reserveofficers

and

otherwise

brought

up

to

formalstrengthtopursue

their

mission.ThedetachmentswereassignedtoKoreaandtrained

only

briefly

before

departure.

When

theirmissionshadbeen

accomplished,theywere

reduced

instrengthandinactivated.

Given

he

urried

ature

f

early

fforts

o

rganize

combat-effect ive

forces,itis

not

surprising

that

administrative

arrangements

were

unsettled.

Early

operations

of

the

histor-

ical

detachmentslacked

highlydirected,

centralizedplanning.

Originally,a

central

organization

wa simprovisedby

activating

Korean

WarStudies

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the

Eighth

Army

HistoricalService

Detachment

Provisional).

Personnelfor

thisunit

were

drawnfromotherdetachments

in

Korea,

while

the

historical

officers

who

conducted

inter-

views

andcompiled

records

were

drawnfrom

Reserves.

The

Provisional

etachment

as

nactivatedwhenhest

Historical

Detachment,

which

hadbeen

designated

she

headquarters,

arrived

in

Korea.

Historicaldetachments

cen-

tralizedtheiroperations

inSeoul

during

late

951

and

early

1952.

Even

then,

unexpected

and

changeable

combat

condi-

tions

madecentralizationofplanningand

operationsdifficult.

Information

on

each

detachment,providedfrom

acommand

perspective,

s

availables

"ChronologyoftheHistorical

Detachmentsn

orea,

October

950

oanuary

954"

(S-DS).

In light

of

the

early

organizationalproblems

experienced

by

thehistoricaldetachments,

helevelofdetailandcom-

prehensiveness

evidenced

by

the

work

of

the

detachments

is

surprising.espite

he

uddennessfheonflictnd

logistical

problemscaused

by

the

rapidlychangingmilitary

situation,historicaldetachmentswere

able

oeconstruct

many

majorbattlesand

operations

through

interviews,

sup-

plemented

ith

ecourse

o

more

onventional

rimary

documentary

esources.

Substantive

Contentofthe

Collection

The

scope

andcontentof

the

interviews

andstudieswas

heavily

influencedby

the

natureof

the

conflict

andbythe

types

of

units

employed

incombat.Though

the

Korean

con-

flict

was

aninternational

"policeaction,"

the

vast

majority

of

the

units

involved

in

combatwere

thoseofthe

United

States

Army.

TheUnited

States

Armyalso

organized

the

historical

detachments

that

conducted

the

interviews

and

produced

the

Reports

and

Studies.

tis

therefore

not

surprising

that,

the

involvement

ofother

United

NationsforcesandtheMarine

Corpsnotwithstanding,

al l

units

interviewed

by

the

historical

detachments

and

directly

coveredinthiscollectionare

Army

units.

However,

where

otherU.N.

units

were

discussed

inin -

terviews

and

other

documents,

they

are

referenced

under

the

appropriatetermsin

the

IndexbySubjectsandNames.

The

collectionprovidesrich

detail

on

the

ground

war

and

itsimmediatelyrelated

aspects,

such

as

theuse

ofparatroopers

in

airborne

operations.Infantryregiments

are

the

backbone

of any ground-based

combatoperation,and

the

overall

col-

lectionprovidesmuchinformation ontherolesuchregiments

played

in

Korea.

However,

the

collection

also

covers

in

depth

theoperations

ofother

supporting

units

such

asartilleryand

engineering.The

After-ActionReportsprovideespecially

rich

detail

on

specific

engagements,

some

of

which

was

vicious

andclose.

Manyofthe

interviews

concern

actionin

Central

and

Northern

orea,

here

nits

enerallyufferedhe

heaviestcasualty

rates.

The

tw omajor components

ofthis

collection

ar etheAfter-

Action

Reports

andtheStudies.After-Action

Reports

include

accountsofcombat-relatedactivitiesof

specific

units

dur-

ingan

engagement

or

operation.

Reports

oftenfocus

on

the

role

or

scopeofactionofparticularunitsforagivenperiod

of

t ime

at

a specific locale.Titles

include

OperationTomahawk

(see

R-BA-1),

Withdrawalfrom onjusee

R-BA-27),

and

Action

atKunu-ri,

17th

Field

Artillery

Bataillon

(seeR-BA-74).

Studies

ar e

organized

functionally

by

specializedtopics.

Titles

coveredin

the

Studies

include

EnemyTactics (see

S-AL),

Inter-

Allied

Cooperat ion

DuringCombatOperat ions(see

S-AI),

and

Surgical

Hospital

in

Korea

(seeS-AI).

After-Action

Reports

generally

ar e

organizedin

three

parts.

First,

a

narrative

accountor

background

isprovided.Second,

the

interviews

themselves

are

presented

insummarized

form.

Finally,

supplementarymaterials

ar e

presented

to

describe

im -

portant

maneuversandevents.

Combat

interviews

provided

the

researchbasis

for theAfter-

ActionReports,butnot

the

text.ThoughArmyhistorians

somet imes

extensively

quoted

officers

andenlistedm en ,

inter-

views

er e

otecorded

erbatim.

Workingwithout

he

benefit

ofrecorders,

historians

tookshorthand

notes

and

andproduced

summaries.

Officers

responsible

forsumma-

tions

produced

after

interveiws

signed

theirworkto

indicate

whohadproducedheaccount.

Thehistoricaldetachments

utilized

interview

techniques

developed

by

U.S.Armyhistoriansandesearchersduring

the

Second

W orld

War .

Among

the

leading

early

practitioners

ofbattlefieldoralhistorieswasGeneralS.L.A.Marshall.

Though

Gen.

Marshall

is

perhaps

best

knownor

his

con-

troversial

thesis

concerning

the

behaviorof

infantryincom-

bat,

one

of

his

signal

contributions

was

his

emphasis

on

the

importance of

immediate

combathistoryi.e.,therecording

of

eventss

soon

s

possible

after

the

battle

and

often

on

thefieldofbattle itselfoveraccounts writtenfromprimary

recordswell

afterthe

fact.

Marshall

believed

oral

interviews

captureddetailsandperspectiveslackinginformalreports.

Further,

by

conducting

interviews

immediately

after

abattle,

Marshallhopedto

avoid

the

tendency

toforget

or

alter

facts

as

memories

aded.

Marshall

played

a

leading

role

in

the

development

ofearly

interview

techniques.Amonghi sprincipalinnovationswas

his

emphasis

on

interviewinga

number

of

participantsto-

gether

in

a

group.Convincedthatgroupinterviewsreduced

"battlefield

myopia"the

tendency

of

participants

to

ee

themselves

as

thecenter

ofactionMarshall

sought

out

op-

portunitiestoemployhis

intuitive

viewof

combat

history.

His

first

extensive

uses

ofgroupinterviewswere

in

thePacific

on

Makin

andKwajeleinIslands,where

he

conducted a

series

ofinterviews

thatultimatelybecamethebasis

of

h ispopular

bookIsland ictory.

By

the

time

the

Korea

conflict

emerged,

there

was a

general

approval

ofMarshall's techniques.Marshall

was

by

nomeans

the

only

practitioner

ofcombat

interviewingas

a

central

focus

for

combat

historywho

was

nfluential

in

the

work

ofthe

historical

detachmentsinKorea.Otherofficers

adapted

his

techniques.

First

LieutenantMartin

Blumenson,

whohad

served

with

Marshall

during

the

Second

World

War ,

was

ac -

tivenhehistoricaldetachmentsn

orea,

swasJohn

Westover.hese

nd

therfficersn

he

istorical

detachments

made

criticaldecisionsconcerningthe

us e

of

historical

methodologies,ashioningsolutions

which

best

suited

the

circumstances.

Officersofthehistoricaldetachmentsconductedmostof

theinterviews

very

soon

after

specific

engagements,

although

afe w

interviews

were

conductedwellafter

the

actionsunder

examination.

Some

interviews

wereconductedwitha

single

individual;

but

many

were

conducted

with

groups ofsoldiers

who

were

able

to

piece

togetheranaccountthatno

single

in -

dividual

understood.Theinterviewsfocus

on

units

involved

in

particular

engagements,

rather

than

an

overall

view

of

the

war,

and

thus

provide

detailed

accounts

of

combat

situations.

Interviewsusuallybeginwiththeaccountsof

commanding

officers.

Then

accountsofotherofficersandenlistedper-

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are

included.Interviews

from

major

units

engaged

in

battle

are

presented

first,

followed

by

accounts

from

units.

Supplementarymaterials

nclude

maps,

verlays,nd

om e

hotographs;ndiscellaneouselated

Maps

provided

in

thiscollection

are

often hand-

sketches or preprinted

maps

thatwereeditedor

marked

onghandy

nterviewers

or

articipants.

Amonghe

um ents

found

here

are

blueprints,

which

were

in-

to

describe

the

workof

engineering

units.

Photographs

eno t

routinely

a

partof

the

After-Action

Reports,

but

are

toillustrateactivitiesinKorea.Otherdocuments

assupplementary

materials

include

correspondence,

periodicoperations

reports,

orders,

messages,

staff

reports,

extractsof

journalskept

by

executive

officers,

an dnotesby

Armyhistorians.They

provide

a

wealthofinformation,in-

cluding

casualty

statistics

an d

data

on

the

status

of

various

operations.

Th e

Studiesprovide

a

consideredperspectiveon

a

broad

phaseof thewareffort,an dthusarenot

limited

tothe

ac-

tivitiesof a

particular

unit.

Historical

Detachments

prepared

them

to

recognize

strengths

as

well

as

to

point

to

deficiencies

or

problems

infundamental

strategic

an d

tactical

matters,

such

as

the

use

ofnew

weapons,

techniques

for

supply

an d

support,

an d

fighting

behavior.

Th eStudiesplace

the

Korean

experiencewithin

thecontext

ofongoing

doctrinal

debates.

KoreanWar

Studies

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USER INSTRUCTIONS

Thenstructions

elowescribeheocumentccession

numbering

ystem

used

or

he

collection,

and

eview

he

scope,

organization,

information

elements,andsuggested

uses

oftheBibliography

of

Documents,

ndex

by

Subjectsand

Names,

Index

by

American

Military

Units,

and

Chronological

Listof

Documents.

Accession

Numbers

Eachdocument

has

been

assigned

asingle

accession

number

forreferencepurposesinthe

Bibliography

and

Index

sections.

This

ccession

umber

s

dentical

o

he

ocument's

microfiche

ccessionumber

within

he

ompanion

microfiche

collection.

Thenitiallement

f

heccession

umber

ndicates

whether

the

documentisaStudy

(S)

or

After-Action

Report

(R).

The

second

and

third

elements

ofthe

accessionnumber

are

taken

fromthecall

numbers

assignedbythe

Center

for

MilitaryHistory.Forexample ,

documentsclassifiedunder

the

CMH

al l

numbers

-5.1

A-5

and

-5.1A.A

have

beenassignedthe

accession

numbersR-BA-5and

S-AA.A,

respectively.

Accession

numberelementsareillustratedinhesample

providedelow.

Bibliography

of

Documents

Individualentries

have

been

prepared

or

ll

t emsn

he

microfichecollection.

After-Action

ReportsR- )

are

isted

first,

ollowed

yStudiesS-).

After-ActionReports

generally

deal

withindividualmilitary

operationsandactivitiesandar e

limited

in

scope

to

the

ac -

tion

of

aspecificmilitary

unit,

at

aspecificplace,

during

a

specific

periodoft ime.

After-Action

Reportsar e

generally

composed

of

anarrative

of

events,

nterviews

with

officers

and

soldiers

who

participated

intheaction,andothersup-

porting

documents.Typical

titlesinclude

Action

at

Kunu-ri ,

17th

Field

Artillery

Battalion,

Action

on

Heartbreak

Ridge;

and

Successful

Defense

of

Company

Patrol

BaseWest

of Imjin

River.

Studies

are

more

formalpresentationsof

information

on

al l

facets

ofaparticularsubjectand generally

are

notlimited

toaspecificmilitary

unit,place,

ortime

period.Studies

cover

awiderangeoftopics,

including

military

history,

ordersof

battle,militarymedicine,and

ogistical

support

activities.

Several

expanded

after-action reportshave

also

beenincluded

with

the

Studies.

Typical

titles

include

EUSAK

Combat

Pro-

paganda

Operations,Inter-Allied

Co-operation

DuringCom-

bat

Operat ions,ndSurgicalHospital

in

Korea.

Bibliographic

Data

Bibliographicdatagivenfor

each

listing

includesthefollow-

ing

tems:

Titles

Titles

appear

n

oldface

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lication

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[pub.6/20/54].

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eassignedar e

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also

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number.

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after-action

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accession

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scope

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-R-BA-21

Winterization

of

a

Water

Point,

8224th

Engineer

Group

-1/51

o

/51.

9

p.

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iagrams.

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for

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tions

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scope

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- S -AB

PersonnelProblems

-6/50o

/57.

202

p.-

Coversvariousaspects

of

personnelmanagement

during

the

Korean

Campaign,

from

the

beginning

ofostilities

in

6/50 until thenitiationof

cease-lire

negotiations

n

7/51.

Contents:

Chapter

I. Build-Upoforces. Describes

initial commitments

and

reinforcements,

integration

f

Republic

f

Korea

oldiers,

andheus eofindigenousabor,

p .

-17)

ChapterI.

Strengths.Records,

and

Reports.

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command

trengthsndheoncomitant

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the

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classificationandassignment,utilizationof

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lack

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awardsanddecorations,postal

ervice,

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m ay befound

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andtowns"

andRiversndwaterways."Namesfkey

errain

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xi


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features

such

as

the

"T-Bone

Complex"and

individual

hillshave

also

been

indexed.Whenindexing

to

hills,we

haveattemptedodentify

the

name

ofanearbyity,

town,orother

geographic

designation

forinclusion

in

the

subject

term

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618,Satae-ri"and"Hill1073,

Line

Ermine").

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operation

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"Operation

Commando")

is

identified

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a

document

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been

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true

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thenames

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ames

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personal

name

term

geographic

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subject

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ncludes

ll

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theuser

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index

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title

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each

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by

the

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of

ac-

tion

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fromtheearliesttothe

most

recent.

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inthecollectionhavecomplete

dates

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of

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month,

day,

an d

year.Th e

dates

of

someactions,however,

were

not

fully

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assigned

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inferred

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year.

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15/57


16/57

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17/57

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Hill1073, Double

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6/13/51

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R -BA -4 3

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R-BA-44

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5/27/51.

32

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