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...Third Army (headquarters San Antonio) under brilliant, German-born Lieut. General Walter Krueger, also a prime supervisor of maneuvers...
This week Publisher Allen was preparing a gala blowout in Laredo for Mexican Defense Minister ex-President Lazaro Car-lenas, on tour of Mexico war plants. Also invited were Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commanding the U.S. Third Army, the Air Forces' Major General Hubert Harmon, other military bigwigs...
...British had sworn to scorch the earth of Malaya, but the job was badly done. They scarcely singed the edges, left many a handsome prize for the oncoming Jap. U.S. Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, thought he could see the reason for the British failure: ignorance and insufficient explosives. He ordered an immediate training program to acquaint every combat unit under his command with the ins-&-outs of demolition...
...Walter Krueger's plan will put 530 men from each Third Army division through a stiff ten-hour instruction course, bossed by Lieut. Colonel Merrow E. Sorley, onetime West Point teacher of engineering and military history. Lessons will be pounded home by instructors from the Corps of Engineers. Ultimate aim: to make the task of demolition, heretofore an art sacred to the engineers, a job that any soldier can do in a pinch, if he has the explosives and a bit of arson in his system...
From San Antonio's station WOAI last week a pleasant little brunette voice broadcast to the world how she had met a "dashing, handsome second lieutenant" in the Philippines, had lived happily with him ever after. The informative lady was Mrs. Walter Krueger, wife of the commander of the Third Army. Her observations were part of a program called Army Wives...