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Along Tennessee's Cumberland River, Army maneuvers reached their climax. Foot soldiers and jeepers, tankers, airmen and artillerymen tried every trick, threw everything they had except real ammunition, tramping out a problem. The problem: can a tank blitz be slowed and even halted. Answer: by well-organized opposition, yes. The engineers with tank traps did the job of slowing, but the star of the action last week-as in the whole two previous months of maneuvers-was the Second Army's tank destroyer battalion. The Cumberland's will-o'-the-wisp struck, destroyed, disappeared and struck...
When the destroyermen hit Tennessee, they had had three months of experience fighting tanks, began to bewitch and bewilder their opponents, almost swept them into the Cumberland time after time. They never seemed to sleep during a maneuver. They figured out where the tanks were likely to come (and usually they guessed right), then lay in wait to enfilade them, fleeing during the confusion, firing again from another angle. They reconnoitered all night, all day, maintained constant. radio communication with all units...
Crusty Lieut. General Ben Lear, Second Army Commander, was in charge. Under him the Reds, commanded by Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler (New York Times), and the Blues, commanded by Major General Paul Peabody, fought along some 75 miles of Tennessee's deep-cut Cumberland River...
This week the maneuvers will develop into a bigtime mock fight when planes and many tanks join the fray. When the dust has cleared, the generals will confer. The hot, dirty, tired, hungry men along the Cumberland hope the generals will decide they are ready...
Certificates for successful completion of the course were presented to nine cadets. They will receive their reserve commissions after camp training this summer. Receiving certificates were Arnold M. Anderson, of Duluth, Minn.; William A. Ellison, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.; John T. Fey, of Cumberland, Md., Thomas J. Glenn, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Murray Harris, of Patterson, N. J.; Robert Polidor, of Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jack B. Quinn, of Chicago, Ill.; Paul W. Seiler, Jr., of Farmington, Mich.; and Robert M. Wattron, of Berkley, Calif...