Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of the last and most successful of the new U.S. Army's 1941 field maneuvers (295,000 troops battling in the Carolinas), Lieut. General Hugh Drum made a professional observation as sobering as a policeman's club...
...Second Battle of the Carolinas, Hugh Drum and his 196,000 Blue troops-eight infantry divisions plus spare parts -headed south from above the Carolinas' border. Below them, defending Camden, S.C., lay the Red Army of Major General Oscar Griswold, in numbers half as strong as the Blues, equal in fire power, superior in mobility, because it had two Armored divisions and the new half-armored Fourth Division...
...eating tankers this readiness was a stunning surprise, for the Blues were made up largely of ponderous, part-motorized square divisions and should have been slow on their feet. Hugh Drum had drummed up extra speed. While the rest of the Army, still without self-propelled artillery, had organized anti-tank groups, he had decided that attack was the best policy. He had drawn trucks and guns from his divisions, organized them into three independent Tank Attack Groups with plenty of mobility and terrific fire power. They went hunting for tanks, and found plenty...
...away, prowled through the night until they were caught. But the attack was no howling success. One reason, besides the stout local defense, was that another new trick had been pulled out of the First Army bag. Secretive General Drum had placed fast-moving, heavily armed Airborne Protection Units all over the place. One of these trouble-shooting outfits, called on the radio, sped to Pope Field, backed up the grease-monkeys with jeep-mounted heavy machine guns...
High officers had high praise for Hugh Drum's slick, resourceful methods (such as persuading local radio "hams" to stay off his communications channels). But they lifted their eyebrows at one Drum beat that was a little too slick. On the maneuvers' first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken...