By Major Maurice A. Belisle

LESSONS

1. Terrain essential to the success of the attack and defense of an objective must be held prior to the attack to secure that objective.
   
   
2. Replacements should never join an unit in the line when it is in contact with the enemy.
   
   
3. When fighting in wooded terrain fire lanes should be avoided.
   
   
4. The most effective use of defensive and/or supporting fires can be had only when accurate locations of friendly units are known.
   
   
5. When stopped for the night in heavy woods it is believed that a limited withdrawal of the main force for any reason is questionable if not entirely erroneous.
   
   
6. Timely information of the enemy and the terrain is essential to a successful attack.
   
   
7. A unit attacking in woods on a wide front is slowed down to the extent that casualties increase at an accelerating rate.
   
   
8. In heavily wooded terrain the importance of contact increases in degree as observation decreases.
   
   

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