Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Commanding the Blue Army was one of the service's most noted advocates of defense by attack: hawk-nosed Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum. By mid-morning of the first day, his divisions had made contact with the Blacks. All night there was rifle fire from outposts along the Grass. Next dawn, Hugh Drum started the ball rolling. His first target was the flower of the Black Army: the motorized, mobile, battle-scarred Fighting First. Stationed on the Black Army's north flank, the First failed to watch the bank of the St. Lawrence, off to their right...
...Hugh Drum still had something up his sleeve. First day of the maneuvers he had whipped up a German-style motorized attack by putting the Irish 165th Infantry (of New York City) into trucks, backing them up with motorized cavalry, artillery, engineers. While the Blacks tried to fight their way out of the encirclement of their north flank, the motorized column, after riding all night, slammed them from the rear on the other flank. The Black Army's 26th National Guard division, squeezed front and rear, decided to retire, moved ten miles east to the next river (the Raquette...
...Armored Corps kept most of them busy at Ft. Benning and Ft. Knox, far from the maneuvers. The same was true of planes: the Air Corps needed most of its planes for its training program. For reconnaissance, Blue and Black Army commanders had observation planes, but almost no attack planes, which could have played hob with troop movements, especially river crossings. The handful of pursuit and bombardment pilots detailed to the maneuvers spent most of their time dogfighting, testing a telephone warning system for tracing the course of invading enemy aircraft by plotting locations where civilian volunteers reported bombers overhead...
...away for the time being. First, by the defeat of France, as Minister of Defense J. L. Ralston remarked, "Canada has suddenly been put very much on her own." Britain could no longer supply Canada with articles which, with France's assistance, had been surplus. Second, the imminent attack on Britain left many loyal Canadians wondering whether Canada might not be independent (or at least without a mother country) much sooner than she wanted...
...Last week neither of those things had yet been accomplished, and the fact that no invasion had yet been attempted strongly hinted that the Nazis had had to revise their plans. One possible hitch was that the Nazis had not so far obtained Spain's aid for an attack on Gibraltar...