Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Seventy Problems in Infantry Tactics: Battalion, Brigade and Division; by John F. Morrison 1914. Former owner’s name (Col. Thomas H. Monroe) on front end-papers, title page, and in pencil on front cover. A portion of Mr. Monroe’s interesting history is reprinted from his obituary below. In 1936, Thomas, Jr. received his appointment to West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1940, and was assigned to the Presidio in San Francisco, a first post that, nearly thirty years later, was also to be his last. On August 24, 1941, he married Arly Jane Barnett in the Presidio Chapel; they were married for 48 years prior to her death in 1989. The Colonel's 30-year career in the Army took him to Fort Lewis, Washington, where he was on December 7, 1941. After helping to train troops at various bases in the south, he was sent to the European theatre of World War II in the fall of 1944; the recently promoted Major Monroe was on a troop ship when his daughter Catherine was born. Assigned first as an aide to the commander of the 3rd Battalion, 78th Infantry Division ("Parker's Lightning Bugs"), Tom was, as he related, "promoted to Commander when the shooting started." His battalion was in France on the Seigfried Line during the Battle of the Bulge, and moved on into Germany. As Tom enjoyed recalling, "When Churchill announced on the radio to the world that Allied troops had crossed the Rhine, we'd already been there for two weeks." In the summer of '45, after the war in Europe had ended, he was promoted to Lt. Colonel; he was later stationed with the occupation force in Berlin, where his wife and daughter joined him. During the war in Korea, he was in Baghdad, Iraq, serving with the diplomatic corps as an Army attach‚. To the German and French he had already learned, he added Arabic. He was then sent to West Point as a tactical officer and an instructor, after which he received a post-war assignment to Korea's demilitarized zone on the 38th parallel. Tom later served on the staff of the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His final foreign posting, in El Salvador as Military Group Commander, gave him the opportunity to add Spanish to his skills skills that were put to good use in 1976, when the American Red Cross recruited Tom to go to Guatemala to supervise crews of volunteers building housing after a devastating earthquake.
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