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Blow by blow: Island Victory, S.L.A. Marshall 1944/2002

I’ve always had a soft-spot for S.L.A. (SLAM) Marshall. He is the author of Men Against Fire, the incredibly influential study of unit level leadership among American troops in World War II, the most memorable finding from which — that less than 25% of the troops in a battle actually used their weapons — may or may not have been a guesstimate. In addition to (possibly) faking his most important contribution to military science — a finding that changed the war the U.S. military trained its troops in order to make them more trigger happy — he also appears to have faked most of his biography: he claimed to have served in the front lines in WWI, to have been the youngest officer to receive a battlefield commission, and so on and so forth. None of it, apparently, true. He also inspired what appears to have been a deep-seated hatred in his grandson, whose offence was to be dishonourably discharged from the Marines as a co

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S. L. A. Marshall

American historian

Brigadier GeneralSamuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (July 18, 1900 – December 17, 1977), also known as SLAM, was a military journalist and historian. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, before becoming a journalist, specializing in military affairs.

In 1940, he published Blitzkrieg: Armies on Wheels, an analysis of the tactics used by the Wehrmacht, and re-entered the U.S. Army as its chief combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He officially retired in 1960 but acted as an unofficial advisor and historian during the Vietnam War. In total, Marshall wrote over 30 books, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, later made into a film of the same name, as well as The Vietnam Primer, co-authored by Colonel David H. Hackworth.

His most famous publication is Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command, which claimed that less than 25 percent of men in combat actually fired their weapons at the enemy. While the data used to support this has been challenged, his co

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Marshall, S. L. A.

Marshall, S. L. A.(1900–1977), military writer, journalist, army officer, pioneer of combat history techniques in World War II.Born in Catskill, New York, Samuel A. Marshall grew up in El Paso, Texas, enlisted in the army in 1917, and won a lieutenant's commission in France. He subsequently joined the National Guard. Marshall became a journalist in El Pasoin 1923, but moved in 1927 to the Detroit News, from which, except during tours of army duty, he covered wars for forty years. Through his syndicated column and other publications, “SLAM” Marshall became one of America's best‐known military writers.

In writing battlefield history, Marshall's technique was to interview survivors, particularly enlisted men and junior officers, individually and in groups, soon after an encounter. He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style.

Two books (1940 and 1941) by Marshall on Germany's mobile warfare led to his appointment in 1942 as a major in charge of army ori