Word: shreveport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Indeed it was. When the battle ended Sunday afternoon Lieut. General Ben Lear's Red defenses were still intact, and Shreveport's bells pealed in victory. Under the assumptions that go with any maneuver, he was to be relieved by a fresh (but theoretical) force on Oct. 6. Whether he could have hung on until then was a question that Reds answered one way, Blues another...
...Hairy Engineers. Thus the big question-"Who won?"-was one that not even the uniformed newsmen traveling with the armies could answer. But on one fact all were agreed. The Battle of Shreveport was a battle of engineers. In a country crisscrossed by water courses and sticky with swamps, the engineers had a field...
Pattern. For this last battle of the maneuvers, Ben Lear gave up the crack Second Armored Division to the Blues, started with a force smaller than he had had in the preceding week. With his reserves based on Shreveport, he flung his advance elements far to the south. He employed all combat bodies, including his Red air force, in widespread reconnaissance, a function in which neither side had shown up too well the week before...
...tanks soon ran into the work of Lear's engineers. Trying to force a crossing of the Sabine River near Carthage (45 miles south of Shreveport), they found that the red-necks had blown up everything usable. But Colonel William H. Morris, commander of the 66th Armored Regiment, learned of a ford downstream. He led his regiment down a dirt road toward the river, and ran into a slambang battle that for two hours threw the 66th back on their caterpillars...