General Short suggested the use of trailers for the transportation of equipment and pointed out that combat aviation makes night movement without lights almost essential. If daytime movement is required, trucks must be rather widely spaced and "infiltration by trucks" must be practiced, General Short specifically praised the much-debated Garand rifle, saying that its rapidity of fire and absence of recoil make it an excellent combat weapon. He also praised the army's new 37 min, anti-tank gun, but said there was insufficient number available. The special corps anti-tonk battalion, created more or less on an experimental basis for the manceuvres, had served as a reservoir for the assignment of anti-tank companies to divisions, General Short said, since time—the governing factor in anti-tank companies to divisions, General Short ing the battalion as a unit until it is needed in action.
General Short praised the mobility of the army's new 155 min, gun, and the utilization of the army's mobile water purification system. Even the army's new gasoline ranges came in for a good word, for such ranges, the general pointed out, obviate the necessity of burning wood and make concealment from air and Ground observation easier, A "low profile" mortar carrier for the 81 min, mortar for battlefield use is necessary, he said, Although the manœuvres showed that the army as a whole still lacks much essential equipment, the War Department, by tremendous effort and by cutting red tape, has gone far in equipping the Fourth Corps, General Short declared,
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