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The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell. S. C- Thursday. August 20, 1936
U. S. ARMY GETTING “WAR” TEST
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Newest Developments in Fighting Equipment Are Tested in Giant
Maneuvers Held in Middle West.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
W AR has come to the Middle West—a hypothetical war that raises
no fear of 'ravage and pillage in the civilian population but rath
er permits them to see what manner of defense their army has
prepared for them. But to the soldiery in Illinois, Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia it is war in grim
earnest for it is the basis for the August maneuvers of the SECOND
ARMY.
The maneuvers’ represent — in<>
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a short period of time — a com
plete cycle of mobilization, concen
tration, training, operation and de
mobilization, M a J o r General
Charles E. Kilbourne, commanding
general, explained in outlining the,
purpose and plan of the field exer
cises.
While the problem as a whole
simulates a conflict between hypo
thetical Red, Blu& and Brown
states, with Green as a neutral,
its principal purpose is to provide
training, and not to be a formal
test of training. Whatever units
the umpires from time to time may
declare have won or lost a deci
sion, all of the troops should bene
fit greatly from the character of
training these maneuvers make
possible.
Will Use Moderi^ Methods
In total number of troops in
volved and in territory covered,
these exercises are the most ex
tensive ever held in the Middle
West in peace time, General Kil
bourne pointed out. The training
problem involves the use of the
most modern weapons and facili
ties available and also is the first
in this area to give special em
phasis to the employment of avia
tion and mechanized units. Large
numbers of Illinois and Wisconsin
troops must be transported across
Lake Michigan. . Units charged
with responsibility for supply and
communications operate over long
er distances than in the field train
ing of former years. Night opera
tions are being conducted and at
tention given throughout the
exercises to the tactical value of
the element of surprise.
The entire maneuver is based on
situations that are moving, rather
than static. By provision of faster
means of transportation and by re
duction of weights carried, a
systematic effort ia being made to
Frequently called “the labora
tory of the army” the “Mechanized
force” is 1 the agency through which
the United States army is keeping
abreast of developments in mech
anization and motorization.
Consisting of the mechanized
First cavalry; the First battalion,
Sixty-eighth field artillery (mech
anized), First battalion, Nineteenth
field artillery (motorized), the Fif
teenth observation squadron, air
corps; together with maintenance
and supply units, the “Mechanized
force” comprises a small compact
organization of great mobility and
striking power.
This force is under the command
of Col. Bruce Palmer, First cav
alry. Artillery officer and com
mander of artillery is Lieut. Col. A.
C. Sandeford, Sixty-eighth field ar
tillery. The force as constituted for
the maneuver includes 117 officers
and 1,841 enlisted men. Its equip
ment includes armored cars, com
bat cars (light, fast tanks), cross
country personnel carriers armed
with machine guns and automatic
rifles. The tables of organization
call for 88 combat vehicles for a
mechanized cavalry regiment.
The First cavalry, mechanized,
has two combat car squadrons,
each with two ten-car troops. It
also has a machine gun troop of
16 cars armed with 53, .30 cal.
guns and 13, .50 cal. guns, and a
16-car reconnaissance troop.
Trend Is Toward Mobility
Brig. Gen. C. D. Herron, chief
of staff, in commenting on the
employment of tha Mechanized
force in the army maneuvers
points to the fact that the trend
of all tactics today involves mech
anization, motorization, greater
speed and greater mobility.
In order to keep abreast of de
velopments in foreign countries,
the army is experimenting with
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SECOND ARMY MANEUVERS - AUGUST 1936
operations automatically leads to
the development of means of de
fense against attack by such meth
ods or with such materials, experts
point out.
In the beginning of the World
war aviation was utilized almost
entirely for observation missions.
Gradually, however, its potentiality
for the offensive was recognized
and towards the end of the World
war the attack on installations,
cities and troops on the ground be
came daily occurrences.
Efforts to develop a defense
against these attacks, other than
with aircraft, were decidedly lame
until the closing months of the war,
when improvements in anti-aircraft
artillery and the establishment of
balloon barrages seemed to have
had a considerable deterring ef-
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Map Showing the Area Covered by the Maneuvers.
increase the mobility of troops, in
action and behind the lines.
The conditions set up for the
maneuver assume that, after a
period of strained relations, an out
break of hostilities occurs between
Blue—a state comprising Illinois,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana,
Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia,
and Red, an “enemy” state, in
cluding Tennessee and Virginia
and extending southeastward.
Brown, a state which includes Penn
sylvania and territory to the east
and north, is friendly toward Red
and later becomes its ally against
Blue. Green, a large neutral state,
comprises territory west of the
Mississippi river.
Will Use 40,000 Troops
In the first phase of the ma
neuver the V corps of the Second
army (Blue) conducts an offensive
in the direction of Nashville, the
Red capital. In the second phase
the VI corps of the Blue army be
gins its offensive toward the Brown
capital of Pittsburgh, ending its
march at Camp Custer, near Battle
Creek, Michigan. The principal el
ements of Red and Brown troons
will be represented by units of the
recently organized GHQ (Genera 1
Headquarters) Air force and the
new mechanized cavalry. Upwards
of 4CL000 troops are participating.
It is the largest concentration of
troops in the middle west since
the World war, and represents the
most extensive employment, under
field conditions, of/aviation and the
Mechanized force ever witnessed
in the United States
this mechanized force. Great
progress has been made in de
veloping combat vehicles that can
travel at high speed both on the
road and across country.
Mechanized units, however, are
sensitive to ground conditions.
Streams form serious obstacles.
Destruction of bridges and critical
road points greatly hinders such a
force. And always a mechanized
or motorized unit is dependent on
the gasoline supply.
In spite of these limiting factors
the Mechanized force, with its
heavily armed vehicles, each capa
ble of tremendous shock and fire
power are of growing importance
in the development of our national
defense.
Constant radio communication
from car to car gives the com
mander a complete picture of the
location of his force at all times
and permits complete control of
the unit.
Mechanized forces can make
deep incursions into enemy terri
tory as illustrated in the rapid
movement of the unit from the
Fort Knox, Kentucky, area to
Camp Custer.
Study Aircraft Effectiveness
Much interest is being shown in
the effectiveness of the participat
ing aircraft and the anti-aircraft
defenses. Until actually tested by
war, it is impossible to state
whether the attack by aircraft or
the defense against such attack has
made the most progress.
In war every development of
method or material for offensive
feet, and the percentage of planes
brought down was rapidly in
creasing.
Following the World war great
emphasis was given both to the
development of aircraft for of
fensive operations and to the de
fensive means. These defensive
means are now divided into an
active defense and a passive de
fense. In Europe and in Japan,
training of civilians in the so-
called passive defense against air
attack is being undertaken. We
read of cities being darkened dur
ing simulated bombardrffent from
the air; of civilians being required
to use gas masks; of Are depart
ments and other civil organizations
being drilled in protection of prop
erty and personnel, and Instruc
tions ss to methods of preparing
effecUve cover. These exercises
are apparently made very real. !
The object is not only to save lives, i
but to organize end drill the people |
so that panic may not add to the
actual danger of an attack.
Active Defease Elaborate
The active defense against
enemy aircraft consists of pursuit
airplanes to attack the bombers of
an enemy, of anti-aircraft guns, '
machine guns and searchlights to 1
| be disposed around installations of- j
j fenng a proper objective for air i
' attack, and an aircraft warning j
service constating of a net of prop- '
erly equipped observation stations i
with a system of communication j
insuring that tha aircraft and the |
anti-aircraft services are alerted in ;
time to meet threatened attack.
Much has been written of the ^
great advance in aviation and the
weapons installed on military air
craft. These improvements extend,
of course, to the aircraft designed
for operations especially against
bombers.
Less ia generally known of the
development of the anU-aircraft
artillery. There has been marked
improvement in the type of anti
aircraft guns. The three-inch guns
can maintain a fire at the rate of
twenty shots a minute, with an
effective altitude of over twenty
thousand feet. The fifty caliber
machine gun, firing six hundred
rounds a minute, is effective
against any aircraft operating at
low or medium altitudes.
New Gun Perfected
Another automatic weapon for
anti-aircaft use, the 37-millimeter
gun, has been perfected but regi
ments have not, as yet, been sup
plied with them. This gun has a
maximum vertical range of 15,000
feet, fires a shell that will explode
on contact with the fabric of an
airplane. It fires at the rate of
eighty rounds a minute.
The searchlights used are eight
hundred million candle power.
Their range is, of course, depend
ent upon the state of the weather.
However, the greatest improve
ment of material has been in the
development of instruments simple
of operation, which control by elec
tricity the setting of—the gun so
that the projectile will meet the
plane in flight and also operate
the fuse setter to insure that the
projectile bursts at the right in
stant.
Until actually tested by war, it
is impossible to state whether the
attack by aircraft, or the defense
against such attack, has made the
most progress. We can state with
assurance, however, that both are
vastly more efficient than at the
close of the World war.
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