Pssstttt don't let some hear ya say that LOL.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

What, the search function or the jeep over the kubelwagon?

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On the Plains of hesitation, lies the blackened bones of countless millions who,
at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died....
(Adlai Stevenson to Harry Truman when discussing the pros and cons of dropping the bomb, or so I'm told)

The latter .

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

Heavens Forbid that we would claim to have something better then the awesome Germans LOL.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

Well, since the SS didn't develope it and make it famous, and it was not prominently featured in video games or a mini-series, there's not much chance to that happening you know....

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On the Plains of hesitation, lies the blackened bones of countless millions who,
at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died....
(Adlai Stevenson to Harry Truman when discussing the pros and cons of dropping the bomb, or so I'm told)

Ahhhhh....True. True .

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

This thread has served its purpose and will be closed. Thank you!

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Thread reopened.

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Best Regards,
JW

I couldn't imagine something like that happening today in the US. Could anyone see the US army sitting on a street in some small town in say a Hummer with a TOW launcher and a .50 machinegun with blank ammo participating in a "wargame" while the locals drive nonchalantly by....?

Robert Sterling Rush in his Hell in Hürtgen Forest: The Ordeal and Triumph of an American Infantry Regiment. (University Press of Kansas, 2001) says that the 4th Infantry Division participated in the Louisiana Maneuvers. But in Christopher R. Gabel in his The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941 does not list the 4th among the units in the exercise.

Does anyone have evidence that the 4th was at the maneuvers?

This is a pretty damned old thread but I'll give it a try: Have you checked the regimental history of the RCTs of the 4th ID? Maybe some elements were constituted from other divisions that did participate.

Here's what I found in World War II Order of Battle (Stanton);

The 4th Infantry Division was activated 1 Jun 40 as the 4th Division at Ft. Benning, Ga and re-organized as the 4th Division (Motorized) on 1 Aug 40. On 11 Jul 41 the 4th Infantry Division moved to the town of Dry Prong, La for the Louisiana Manuevers, returning to Ft. Benning on 27 Aug 41.

There were 19 US Army divisions and over 400,000 men were involved in the operation. I'd think that it would be safe say that the 4th ID was in the middle of it.

Later in the fall of 1941, the 4th ID was also involved in the Carolina Manuevers as well (30 Oct - 3 Dec 41).

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On the Plains of hesitation, lies the blackened bones of countless millions who,
at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died....
(Adlai Stevenson to Harry Truman when discussing the pros and cons of dropping the bomb, or so I'm told)