Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19

LIE pIlSOLleIS lOChCu up diio VIII ACCP
them locked until they are tried"
two hypothetical enemy nations. the in
ternational boundary extending from
Lake Erie along the Sandusky River
and the Scioto River to its junction with
the Ohio River in the vicinity of Ports
mouth on the south. The general prob
lem. which was arranged for the tacti-
cal training Of general officers and their
stats, involves a group OF three Blue
Armies, superior in strength. attacking
a group of three Red Armies on the de-
fensive. holding a hastily intrenched
line along the INTERNATIONAL boundary.
The special problem now being worked
out over the gently rolling Ohio coun-
tryside involves only the first field army
on each side. The Blue Army is sup
posed to be the right army of the blue
force. The Blue Army has orders to
defeat the first Red Army. defending
ton.
Problem in Two Phases.
The problem has been divided into
two phases: First, the air corps phase,
in which the Red and Blue air forces
are engaged at the outbreak Of the war
In the aerial reconnaissance and corn
bat work involved in the concentration
of the armies and their advance to estab-
lish contact. This first phase now is
nearing completion and the ground
armies today are moving into position:
Today the armies of both nations
are modified and are moving into po-
sition. The Blue forces are distributed
throughout the area from Dayton to
the international border. The Red
forces occupy a line approximately II
miles il length along the high ground
on the east bank of Big Darby Greek.
about IL miles west of Columbus. The
Blue Army is forming to assault this
line, with the capture of Columbus as
its mission.
Tuesday the Blue Army staff and its
corps and division stats will take their
command posts and issue orders to
corps headquarters for the attack to be
made next Thursday and to continue
for three days.
The Blue Army is assumed to have
IL Infantry divisions and the Red
Army nine. Each army has two Cavalry
divisions screening the respective fronts.
Each army has an equal number OF
Army and general headt< arters troops,
while the air forces takirG part in the
rnaneuver are about equal divided. APP
proximately 100 planes on each side.
Panels Indicate Positions.
The positions Of all headquarters,
army and corps troops, hospitals depots
and ammunition and supply dumps OF
both Blue and Red armies will be indl-
Gated on the ground by panels, as will
the front line battalions. The panels
will be operated and moved by detach-
fnents from the 10th and 18th United
States Infantry in the manner in which
troops would be Unanswered in actual
combat. In the Blue Army, the army.
corps and division stats will control
the movements of the various units. No
subordinate STATS will be on duty with
the Red Army, but the panels will be
regulated according to the decisions OF
umpires.
The Blue Army at dusk Tuesday,
when combat contacts will be estab-
lished, will be organized and stationed
as follows: Army headquarters, Fair
field Air Depot Fairfield, Ohio.
vision, Ohio National Guard, Resaca;
38th Division, Indiana National Guard
Chuckery; S4th Division, Organized
Reserve, Unionville Center.
Second Corps, London; 5th Division
Regular Army, Lilly Chapel; Tooth Dr.
vision, Organized Reserves. Lafayette;
SD Division, Organized Reserve. Plum
wood.
Headquarters of the Sd Corps and the
7th to 18th Divisions will not be rep
resented, their presence being merely
assumed.
An Army corps has 4794 officers,
83,573 men and 81 1928 horses and mules.
On the road a corps would occupy 1913
miles. An Infantry division consists Of
1916 officers and men and 6,675 ami
mails, and on the road would occupy 28
miles.
Gen. Nolan in Command.
The maneuvers are under command
of Mai. Gen. Dennis e. Nolan, COM
mandant of the 9Th Corps Area. who
also Is commander Of the Blue Army.
The Air Corps units, gathered in Ohio
from all parts of the United States. are
under command of Brig. Gen. Benja-
min D. Foulois, assistant chief OF the
Army Air Corps. Lieut.. Col. H. C..
Pratt of Mitchell Field, N. Y, is COM
m 1nder of the Blue Army air forces,
while the Red air forces are command
ed by Maj j. N. Reynolds OF Mitchell
Field
The air forces are concentrated as
follows: Red Army, at Norton Field, CO.
lumbus. Ohio; 1st Pursuit Group, Sell
fridge Field, Mount. Clemens Mich, SO
pursuit and cargo planes, Maj. Ralph
Squadron, Rockwell Field, San Diego
Calf, 6 planes, Capt. K. C. Black COM
manding; 18th Observation Squadron
Selfridge Field. 8 observation planes
and l cargo plane, Capt. G: H. Rey-
| holds commanding: 18th Observation
| Squadron, Fort Riley, Kans., 9 obser-
walton and / cargo plane. Maj. Robert
E. M. Goodrich commanding.
Blue Army, at Fairfield Air Depot
Fairfield. near Dayton; I'd lombard
ment Group. Langley Field, Va. SO
bombardment and cargo planes. Maj,
Hugh J. Knerr commanding; 95th Pur-
suit squadron, Rockwell Field. Is pur-
suit planes and cargo planes. Capt
H. M. Elmendorf commanding; Sd At
tack Group, Fort Crockett, Galveston,
Tex. "a attack and cargo planes, Maj
John H. Jouett commanding; 9th OBJ
| servatinn Group Mitchell Field NJ Y