Word: bivouacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa. It paralyzed Des Moines with 24 inches of snow in 24 hours. It snapped telephone wires like twigs, stranded busses full of soldiers all over the State. One lot of a dozen was spilled out at the Sheldon-Munn Hotel at Ames, where the men established a comfortable bivouac, started a rousing crap game...
Panzers. North from bivouac, with terse combat orders in the pockets of their coveralls, headed the Second. Its tanks moved in column, parallel to the Sabine River. Its wheeled equipment (mechanized infantry, artillery, etc.) took a more westerly route...
...from the south plowed Walter Krueger's troops, between the Red River on the east, the Sabine (boundary of Louisiana and Texas) on the west. Behind the spearhead of infantry, headed by engineers, the Blues' Second Armored Division, most experienced of U.S. Panzer units, chafed in bivouac...
They wasted their worry. After two days the Red tanks turned up 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...
...night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed nothing more...