Word: anti-tank
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...advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps of the Armored Force (about 600 tanks). Walter Krueger's Blue Army, advancing from the south, had few armored troops (60 tanks). It had a division and an added brigade of cavalry. (Ben Lear had only one division.) It was vastly superior in infantry, artillery, the Army's new anti-tank groups (three...
...again, right where they were last seen. They had been in a successfully camouflaged bivouac, waiting to make the final thrust into the Blues' vitals. But by then it was too late. Its avenues of attack canalized by a water-broken country, the Armored Force ran into traps, anti-tank posts. It was theoretically smashed by Major General Herbert A. Dargue's supporting Blue air force, which was used more skillfully than a U.S. air force had ever been used before in maneuver...
...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...
...open, unarmored 3 7-mm. carriers have. Even the semi-armored 75s are open at the top, thus are vulnerable to "plunging fire" from enemy aircraft, artillery, machine guns. Army designers had deliberately decided not to enclose crews and guns in armored turrets. The Army's reasoning: in anti-tank warfare, speed is vital, and more weight is bound to mean less speed...
...guns are one thing the Army has a lot of. Henry Ford, American Bantam Car Co. and Willys-Overland are turning out thousands of jeeps, although 37-mm. gun production is still far behind the need. Still newer versions of destroyers are on the way, including a bigger-calibre anti-tank gun which eventually will relegate the 37 to the status of a third-line weapon...