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...June issue of the Field Artillery Journal, Colonel Lanza published a piece called Routes into Europe: A Study in Terrain. He did not attempt to predict the time or the places, of invasion, but he did show where it would be easiest, hardest and nearest to the eventual objective-Berlin. Some of his points...
...Hellzapoppin exercise" is the toughest. Under live machine-gun fire, with tanks charging and land mines exploding, two platoons of students advance through open terrain, firing mortars, rifles, machine guns. In these and other battle exercises, students alternate as commanders. At course's end each student grades his platoonmates on the priceless quality: military leadership. Averaged with instructors' grades, these ratings make up T.I.S.'s estimate of how well its alumni will do in battle...
...their fire anywhere. The 9th Division, in its first offensive action, could not keep pace with the ist. Its officers, particularly the battalion and company commanders, were not so well trained or experienced. But the 9th's performance, though ragged, was no disgrace: it was up against a terrain that was ideally suited to defense and had been prepared for months...
Open now to officers stationed at the University, is a miniature section of the terrain around the Battle of Gettysburg which is being used by Harvard ROTC students in their field artillery firing...
Lesson to Come. For the armored division, operating as a unit, there may still be many a job to do. When the Allied invasion of Europe unfolds full scale, fast armored divisions may be able to fan out over great stretches of terrain, chewing up opposing infantry and communications. But even that can happen only after Allied infantry has disposed of the German anti-tank artillery, which is poison to spearheads of tanks...