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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...
Bluff Ben Lear took a characteristically vigorous course. At the jump-off he bridged the Red River, skillfully moved his 125,000 men across, charged deep into the heart of the Blues. Spearhead of his thrust was the Armored Force. It bit deep into the Blue middle, then dropped out of sight, let the Blues worry about where it would appear next...
Dargue's airmen bombed the daylights out of Ben Lear's rear-area supplies (including gasoline for the tanks) as far back as Shreveport. Support aviation, including dive-bombers from the Navy (under Army command), blasted at tanks, then blew up the bridges across the Red River. Meanwhile the Red tanks had been stopped, and the gaps they had made plugged up by sweating infantrymen...
...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...