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POWER AT THE PENTAGON-byPENTAGON4y Jack Raymond NIGHT DROP-The American Airborne Invasion $6.50 of Normandy-by S. 1.L. A. Marshall The engrossing story of one of 'thethe greatest power Preface by Carl Sandburg $6.50 centers thethe world has ever seen-how it came into Hours before dawn on June 6, 1944, thethe American being, and thethe people who make it work. With the 82dB2d and 1101Olst st Airborne Divisions dropped inin Normandy awesome expansion of military power in,in the interests behind Utah Beach. Their mission-to establish a firm of national security during the cold war have come foothold for the invading armies. drastic changes inin the American way of life. Mr. What followed isis one of the great and veritable Raymond says, "in the process we altered some of stories of men at war. Although thethe German defenders our traditionstraditions inin thethe military, in diplomacy, in industry, were spread thin, thethe hedgerow terrain favored them;them; science, education, politics and other aspects of our and the American successes when they eventually did society." We have developed military-civilian action come were bloody,bloody.- sporadic, often accidential. Seldom programs inin he farfar corners of the globe. Basic Western before have Americans at war been so starkly and military strategy depends upon decisions made in candidly described, in both theirtheir cowardice and theirtheir America. Uncle Sam, General Maxwell Taylor has courage. said, has become a world-renowned soldier in spite In these pages thethe reader will meet thethe officers whowho of himself. later went on to become our highest miliary com-com DIPLOMAT AMONG WARRIOR5-byWARRI0R-y Robert manders in Korea and after: J. Lawton Collins,Col,lins, Matthew Murphy $6.95 Ridgway, Maxwell D. Taylor, James Van Fleet, James A brief conversation with President Roosevelt in Gavin, Anthony McAuliffe, and others who inin thethe 1940, transformedtransformed Robert Murphy from a conventional battles recounted here were shouldering thethe firstfirst diplomat intointo a secret agent-the President's personal major commands of their careers. representative and General Eisenhower's political adad- NEITHER FEAR NOR HOPE-by General vonvon viser inin thethe no-man's land of French North Africa. Senger und Etterlin $6.95 Here he tells thethe insideinside story of his first special assign-assign ment and of subsequent missions from Roosevelt, General Etterlin, German commander inin WW II,II, Truman, and Eisenhower, filling in the gaps that still sheds new light on the history of thethe campaigns inin remainremain inin thethe official records of the U.S. government. the European and Mediterranean theatrestheatres where thethe An objective, first-hand account of history in the General fought, as well as a poignantpOignant expression of making. the antithesisantithesis' between his duty as a professional soldier and his personal aversion toto Hitler. At thethe WAR AS I KNEW IT-byIT4y General George S.5. head of the Senger Brigade inin thethe Blitzkrieg invasioninvasion. Patton, Jr. $6.95 of France the General detailsdetai,ls the capture of Cherbourg. From his childhood, George Patton had one absorbabsorb- A cultured and intelligent man, unlike thethe stereotype inging interest-theinterest-the military art. His life culminated in of the ruthless German military personality, and at history's greatest'opportunitygreatest opportunity for the practice of this the same time a cool and successful fieldfield commander,comr,nander, art. His dominant belief was that a commander's von Senger fought tenaciously,tenaciously, without fear, but olsoalso place isis at the front, where he can inspire the morale without hope. of his troopstroops and keep aware of combat conditions. This belief he livedlived up to through days and nights of CAST A GIANT SHADOW-The Story of Mickey perilous fighting and breaking weariness, and his Marcus, who died to save Jerusalem-Jerusalem actions gave rise to many stories. This was not his only by Ted Berkman $4.95 side. He was also the military student who, prior to On a somber afternoon inin January of 1948,194B, Colonel D-Day, made a study of the Normandy roads used by Mickey Marcus, U.S. Army boarded a plane for IsraelIsrael William thethe Conqueror, since he deduced that the to begin what was to be the most dangerous and same roadsroads would be useful today, and who, throughthrough- challenging assignment of his life.life. out thethe campaign, kept an Operations Room which Mickey Marcus had never backed down fromfrom a was the envy of other commanders. challenge,chaHenge, especially where an issue of personal prin-prin PATTON: Ordeal and Triumph-by Ladislas ciple was at stake. Against six Arab countries out-out Farago Reg. $9.95. Christmas special $8.50 numbering Israel in population by sixty toto one, boast-boast - The Patton that emerges from a cacophony of sec-sec ing a prodigious array of modern firepower, thethe ond-hand evidence was a complex and justly con-con Israeli forces had no tanks, no warplanes, negligible troversialtroversial figure.figure. InIn thethe popular mind, in particular, he homemade artillery .... not even enough rifles toto go survives asaas a great captain of war, to be sure, but around. He dictated military manuals and outlined aa' mostly as thethe general who had slapped an enlisted drastic blueprint for Israel's survival. Appointed to man, thenthen redeems himself by leading a dashing and Supreme Command on thethe JerusalemJerusalem front,front, he liftedlifted dramatic campaign ,atat the head of a competent and the three-month siege of thethe bleeding Holy City, win-win romanticromantic army. Sicily, North Africa, the breakout at ning the sobriquet "Lafayette of Israel." Avranches, the bungle at Falaise, the anguish of Metz, The first soldier since Biblical timestimes toto hold thethe rankrank the prolongation of the war and the restraint preventprevent- of General in the Army of Israel. The only soldier inging totaltotal victory are but a few of the areas PATTON: interred at West Point who was killed fighting under ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH covers. a foreign flag. '[he United States Armor Association (Established 1885) President MAJ. GEN. D. W. MCGOWAN, RET. Warfare Honorary President AlRY JOURNAL MAJ. GEN. GUY V. HENRY, RET. V ice PresidenlJ MAJ. GEN. A. J. BOYLE MAJ. GEN. E. O. WOLF EDITOR BRIG. GEN. 1. 1. STAHL Lieutenant Colonel Eugene M. Dutchak Honorary Vice PresidenlJ BUSINESS MANAGER ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR GEN. BRUCE C. CLARKE, RET. SFC John G. Portman GEN. JACOB 1. DEVERS, RET. M Sgt Roy F. Mott CIRCULATION MANAGER GEN. H. H. HOWZE, RET. SSG Wilfred A. Gileau GEN. CHARLES D. PALMER, RET. SFC Michael E. Kekker GEN. I. D. WHITE, RET. GEN. W. G. WYMAN, RET. LT. GEN. E. H. BROOKS, RET. Volume LXXIV NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1965 No.6 LT. GEN. F. J. BROWN LT. GEN. CLOVIS E. BYERS, RET. LT. GEN. JOHN H. COLLIER, RET. CONTENTS LT. GEN. WILLIS D. CRITTENBERGER, RET. LT. GEN. HOBART GAY, RET. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .....................................•....•......... 2 LT. GEN. THOMAS 1. HARROLD, RET. LT. GEN. GEOFFREY KEYES, RET. ARMOR IN THE AGE OF COEXISTENCE ............................•......... 4 LT. GEN. SAMUEL 1. MYERS, RET. By Major William V. Kennedy LT. GEN. GEORGE W. READ, RET. LEGEND OF FIDDLER'S GREEN 7 LT. GEN. GoRDON B. ROGERS, RET. By Lieutenant Colonel Paul M. Crosby LT. GEN. JOHN 1. RYAN, JR., RET. LT. GEN. ARTHUR G. TRUDEAU, RET. TANK PLATOON COMBAT READINESS CHECK ...........................•.... 12 MAJ. GEN. R. W. GROW, RET. By Captain Lewis M. Tuggle MAJ. GEN. E. N. HARMON, RET. MAJ. GEN. W. PAUL JOHNSON, RET. NOTES FROM ARMOR BRANCH CIDEF ....•................•.................. 16 MAJ. GEN. HENRY C. LODGE, RET. THE NEEDED MAN 17 MAJ. GEN. JOHN S. WOOD, RET. THE HON. W. G. BRAY MECHANIZED INFANTRY LIVE FIRE COURSE ....•..•.....•.................. 18 THE HON. JOHN J. FLYNT, JR. By l\lajor George B. Bartel THE HON. E. J. GURNEY THE UNBALANCED RESPONSE ............•..•..•....•.....•............•..... 23 THE HON. GRAHAM PURCELL By Major Clinton E. Granger, Jr. BRIG. GEN. S. R. HINDS, RET. BRIG. GEN. W. A. HOLBROOK, JR., RET. WILL THE CRY BE HEARD? ..............•.............•..........•....•..... 25 BRIG. GEN. H. C. NEWTON, RET. By Captain Stephen S. Leavitt BRIG. GEN. P. M. ROBINETT, RET. VEHICLE RECOVERY .......•..................•..•......•. .. 28 BRIG. GEN. WILLARD WEBB, RET. By William W. Boston COLONEL ARTHUR W. ALLEN, JR., RET. COLONEL J. 1. HINES, JR., RET. ARMOR SCHOOL MARKS 25 YEARS' SERVICE: A Pictorial Feature 32 Executive Council THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARMORED INFANTRY RIFLE SQUAD: Part II 34 By Dr. Virgil Ney GEN. CREIGHTON W. ABRAMS, JR. GEN. JOHN K. WATERS AREA FIRE: A Prime Consideration For Armor ........•........•............•... 46 LT. GEN. CHARLES ·G. DODGE By Major Harold L. Larson LT. GEN. R. E. HAINES, JR. LT. GEN. W. H. S. WRIGHT ANTITANK WARFARE 51 MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM W. BEVERLEY By Colonel Hans von Uslar-Gleichen MAJ. GEN. F. W. BoYE, JR. REl\UNISCENSES ABOUT SYNGMAN RHEE 53 MAJ. GEN. MICH.AEL S. DAVISON By General Bruce C. Clarke, Ret. MAJ. GEN. WELBORN G. DOLVIN MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM R. DOUGLAS HOW WOULD YOU DO IT? ................................•..•....•.•..•...... 55 MAJ. GEN. JOHN E. KELLY U. S. Army Armor School Presentation MAJ. GEN. WALTER T. KERWIN, JR. U. S. ARMY ARMOR SCHOOL TRENDS ..............•.....................•... 57 MAJ. GEN. CHARLES A. OTT MAJ. GEN. GEORGE RUHLEN NEWS NOTES .............................................•....•.....•.•........ 58 MAJ. GEN. A. D. SURLES, JR. MAJ. GEN. JAMES W. SUTHERLAND INDEX TO VOLUME LXXIV. 1965 ....................•.......•............•... 61 MAJ. GEN. COLLIN P. WILLIAMS SELECTED BOOKS " ......•..•.•.......•.....•..•.......•.•..•... 63 BRIG. GEN. ALBIN F. JRZYK BRIG. GEN. WILSON M. HAWKINS COL. WILLIAM W. COBB COL. FRANK F. CARR ARMOR magazine is published under the auspices of the United States Armor Association, COL. TRACY B. HARRINGTON and is not an official publication. Contributions appearinc herein do not neeesaaril7 relied official thought or indorsement.