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...2nd Team at Brooks...
...Blue" attacking force of the 3rd Battle Group of the 6th Infantry Division scored in a sneak amphibious attack on the defending "Reds" of the 2nd Battle Group when they maneuvered three miles up the Havel River, hit the Reds from the rear. Next day, the Reds counterattacked with a massive firecracker barrage simulating an air and artillery offensive witnessed by General Lucius D. Clay, President Kennedy's representative in Berlin. Said Clay: "This was a well-laid maneuver. Everyone took it seriously...
While we remained in our bridgehead, a German colonel showed up and asked us to evacuate 18,000 Allied prisoners from the camp at Altengrabow because he had nothing to feed them. We sent the 2nd Battalion 25 miles up the Zerbst-Berlin highway to Altengrabow and rescued them...
...from Wisconsin and the 49th Armored from Texas-have been called up, and two more are on alert status. A total of 40,000 men will flesh out the five divisions and supporting units of the Seventh Army, which may also be reinforced by the 4th Infantry and the 2nd Armored by December. In all, the buildup this year will increase the number of Army combat divisions from...
Army training methods are excellent. At Fort Jackson, S.C., last week, Company B, 2nd Battalion, ist Training Regiment fidgeted in new, stiff fatigues and listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight...