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...British claimed that the water supply of Buna was sufficient for only a small garrison, and that the wells were within range of strategic hills from which the enemy could shell them. But what the British troops apparently feared more than thirst was a nutcracker attack which would flank Buna...
...other flank of an attack from the north lie the Philippines. The Japanese would be crazy to attack them before 1946, when promised Philippine independence would make penetration almost automatic. They have already invaded Mindanao with brigades of civilians and regiments of cheap products. A tight submarine ring might suffice to hold in the small U. S. squadron. based on Manila. East of the Philippines the Japanese already have bases in the mandated islands at Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau...
...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. There Hugh Drum started a flanking march by Maryland and Virginia infantry units, a company of Pennsylvania tanks. When the First came to, its supply train had been captured by the Maryland 5th Infantry...
...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) while the umpires recessed the battle...
...across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased but dead-pan faces at the power of tactics which threatened to about-face the invaders and back them against the St. Lawrence, umpires called...