Jut to stir the MacAuthur pot a bit...

Rober H Ferrel of the University of Missouri has recently published 'The Question of MacAurthurs Reputation'. In short this examines the cicumstances surrounding the attack of the 42d Div, on the "Cote de Chatillion" hill position from 14 thru 18 October 1918. Brigadier Gen MacAurthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor from that action, specifically for leading the 167th & 168th regiments through a 'gap' in the barbed wire barriers. Ferrels book descibes what many historians and other have know sicen 1918, that the logbooks and staff of the brigade CP of the two regiments show Mac never left the CP during the entire day.

Much of Ferrells book analysis why Mac recived a Distinguished Service Cross. The other portion describes the battle and sorts out what officers of the two regiments actually were key leaders in making the attack sucessfull.

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