The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-23
ATTACK UNITS ARMY ANSWER
 TOTANK BLITZ
Gen. Drums New Attack CTS Stop Tanks in
 Maneuvers
BY FREDERICK WILLIAMS

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 Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 2S-(UP)-Stop the tanks. That has been the battle cry since Germany launched It's blitEkrieg style of warfare on Eu- rope. The U. s. Army is convinced that they can be stopped by recent- y developed "tank atacker" units.
 Lieut.. Gen. Hugh A. Drumm, First Army Commander, must be credited with this latest innovation, lie put them Into action for the first time In the recent maneuverS of the First Army in the Carolinas. Lieut., Gen. Lesley ]. McNair, director of Army General Headquarters, thinks that if Drums tank attackers can be coupled with the new CHG antl- tank groups, and welded into q highly mobile, smashing unit, the tank can be fought on even terms.
 As late as October of this year when First Army maneuverS began there had been no system by which the army could stop roraing tank monsters. Army officials knew that something had to be done soon but they did not realize that only . few days following close of the field maneuvers, America would be at war.
 First Successful Defense
 During the earlier maneuvers held throughout the United States this year, new systems were tried as tank sctoppers but none of them proved successful. Only in the Louisiana maneuvers did officers find a ray of hope with the newly organized CHG ant-tank groups. During First Army maneuvers in the CarolinaS in October and Nov- ember, General Drum took @ hand- ful of infantry, a flight of planes, q small group of tanks, mechani2ed cavalry, outmoded artillery units, coast artillery and a group of spe- cialistS, mixed these men with S7 nm. anti-tank guns and 75 nm. artillery field pieces and brought forth his tank attackers"
 Throughout two weeks of inten- dve field training between the First Army and the Fourth Corps of the Third Army with the attached First Armored Corps, these tank attack CTS" received exhaustive tests.
 Tanks Stopped Cold
 Again and again the maneuver- wise and and tank-filleG lst and 2nd arrnored divisions threw them selves against the large infantry divisions of the First Army. Each time umpires ruled that the tank attacEer groups had thrown back or stopped the tanks. The mobility and fire power of these newly-ereat- cd units proved equal to the are moved onslaught.
 General Drum said that his new tank fighters will undergo slight re- visions based on experiences gained n the maneuverS but that the an. Swer to tank warfare has been found.
 General McNair. who acted as the ranking neutral" during Che CHG maneuvers both in Louisiana and the Carolinas, agreed that the tank attacker groups were highly successful and suggested o com promise organization embodying the best points of tho CHG ,anti.tank groups and Drums tank attackers.
 Mobile 75'S, which won fame dur Ing the first '7orld War, are the "guts" of these new tank killing lnitS. Mounted in the back of speedy half-tractor trucks, their mu22les pointed forward, these guns could be fired while advancing. If France had had their 76's mounted Instead of having to pull them around, officers believe the German drive over that country might have been . different story.
 Many armored unit officers still believe, however, that tho best an- swer to tank attacks Is more tanks, The tank attaeker group believes that If given 'half-track iwth a mounted 75 for each tank. backed up by the regular anti-tank de-, lenses ID divisions, they can stop tank offenSives with critical losses for the enemy.
 The army of the United States will have between six and eight of these Armored divisions in action that this number be expanded five times is being studied,