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Meanwhile canny Walter Krueger was getting in other telling licks. A company of parachute troops, first ever dropped in U.S. maneuvers, fell from the sky behind Ben Lear's headquarters, cut off traffic on a vital highway and snipped communication lines right & left...
...time the five-day battle ended, Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army had had its ears pinned back. Advancing with a rush across the Red River, it met deceptively easy going against the Third Army of jug-eared, German-born Lieut. General Walter Krueger. But the Red neck was out. When last week's exercise ended, Ben Lear's army had been backed up against the Red River it had so dashingly crossed. Its flanks had been turned, many of its bridges to safety destroyed, its Armored Force's gasoline supplies captured...
...Lear's Red Army was given the northern position. Numerically inferior to the Blues (125,000 to 215,000), it had the advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps of the Armored Force (about 600 tanks). Walter Krueger's Blue Army, advancing from the south, had few armored troops (60 tanks). It had a division and an added brigade of cavalry. (Ben Lear had only one division.) It was vastly superior in infantry, artillery, the Army's new anti-tank groups (three...
Final blow came as General Krueger threw his cavalry in. Innis P. Swift, commander of the Blue's First Cavalry Division, swept out of East Texas with 17,500 men, on horse, motorcycle and scout car, slashed east and north around the Reds' right flank in a night ride. By that time Ben Lear knew the worst. Driven back from two headquarters, he had lost most of his rear-area supplies to Horseman Swift...
...correspondent who was a poor map reader was as helpless as an orphan unable to dress himself. At Lake Charles (headquarters of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Third Army) and at Winnfield (headquarters of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army) the correspondents assigned to each Army were told that the war would begin about midnight. Eventually they received word that action had started 100 to 200 miles away. Then they saw the last of headquarter comforts and were off into the dawn...