8 Bells Lecture | Lawrence Kaplan: The Purge of the Thirtieth Division
Channel: U.S. Naval War College
Date: 2015-05-19

Lawrence Kaplan, "The Purge of the Thirtieth Division," Eight Bells Book Lecture, Naval War College Museum, May 7, 2015.

In the lead-up to World War II, eighteen National Guard division commanders were called upon to train and lead 300,000 men. By the end of the war, all but one had been relieved in a systematic policy by senior, regular Army officers to replace Guardsmen with regular officers. The book offers a unique historical insight into the mobilization and offers a scathing indictment of the senior war planners during the war, including the Army Chief of Staff, George Marshall.

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