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...Camp Bullis, 20 miles from San Antonio, a couple of colonels* were busy belying this scurrilous chant. So were 152 other officers. They are students in the Third Army Junior Officers Training Center-a school set up by Lieut. General Walter Krueger to brush up his juniors (and interested seniors) on military fundamentals. This week the center's first class will receive diplomas from General Krueger, go back to their posts leaner and wiser than before...
...Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair. As he had the week before, he called the high-ranking officers of the Armies together, sat them down to listen. In the front row were the two Army commanders: bluff, burly Lieut. General Ben Lear of the Second, and stocky Lieut. General Walter Krueger of the Third. Next to them sat Lieut. General Delos Emmons, boss of the Army's Combat Air Force...
...Army had already taken a decisive step toward improving discipline: bringing up 18,000 new officers (see col. 3) while it was weeding out the backward. In the armies of Ben Lear and Walter Krueger are more good officers than sluggards. Soldiers returning to posts from furlough are likely to find life different-and tougher...
Last Sunday dawned wonderfully exciting for the 100,000-odd inhabitants of Shreveport, La. For four days the powerful (220,000-man) Blue Army of Lieut. General Walter Krueger, unofficial winner of the preceding week's Battle of Louisiana, had been pushing north to take the city. On Sunday the second phase of the maneuvers was to end. And so far as Shreveporters (patriotically wearing red brassards on their arms) could see, their own smaller (117,000) Red Army was putting up a stout and resourceful defense...
...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...