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...rules were the rules of sham war, but they were as close to reality as Lieut. General Lesley McNair, director of the maneuvers, could make them. And under those rules the Blues once more demonstrated the outstanding lesson of the Carolina maneuvers: an adroitly managed defense, with the accent on fire power and mobility, can stop tanks. During the second week of the Battle of the Carolinas, the Armored Corps "lost" 350 tanks. But they had learned a lesson, too. In the first week they had lost...
Tanks can be stopped by fast-thinking, fast-moving defense. The U.S. Army learned that vital lesson last week during a five-day sham battle over slightly rolling country, straddling the borderline between the Carolinas, on a terrain well gridded with roads-good tank country...
Though the war in North Carolina was only a sham battle, Private Roland Sauter of the 102nd Coast Artillery Brigade came close to being a real casualty last week. Stationed with an anti-aircraft unit at an abandoned farmhouse near Fort Bragg, he was moseying around for some soft weeds on which to spend the night when he suddenly dropped 30 feet into a dried-up well. He yelled. The echo was terrific, but nobody came. He tried to climb out, but the well walls crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes...
...officers of the Second and Third Armies, resting from their far from sham labors in far-flung sham battle, the GHQ's Chief of Staff spoke pregnant words. Said Lieut. General Lesley James McNair: "There can be no excuse for another Guadalajara...
South of Shreveport, where Spanish moss droops from the live oaks and watercourses slash the marshy Louisiana land like knife-cuts in a pan of fudge, 340,000 soldiers of the Army met last week in the greatest sham battle in U.S. history. It was also the most decisive...