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...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
...afternoon in Manhattan a man sits at a microphone watching a clock. As minute and second hand cut the hour he speaks. The vibration which is the "sound" of his voice becomes an electrical vibration. It speeds along a wire to a building in a scrub-pine clearing 40 miles away. There with the aid of a wafer of quartz crystal vibrating at a constant frequency of perhaps 11,830,000 cycles per second, and boosted by thousands of watts of electric power, the vibrations ripple from a great antenna outward in waves 26 meters long. In no time...
...country is very striking-rather like Salisbury Plain, only with very large patches of ten-foot-high scrub and a certain amount of forest. The Russians are unusually good at concealment. You would go along a patch of scrub and just catch something out of the corner of your eye, then find it full of men and stuff completely hidden from view...
...thousand feet below the fat belly of the cargo plane, the Virginia countryside had a wicked look. Rocks, scrub trees, creeks, fences, power lines looked as if they lay in wait there, in the blue summer haze...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...