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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...
...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...
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...