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Jack Hyde correspondence, 1930-1976
Jack Hyde to Pearl Hyde Page 3
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down here. Two, picked outfits went out on maneuvers against each other, for a week. They've just returned. They were large outfits---numbering about a division each. The trick that struck me as being the best is the one I'm going to tell you about. The Red's were holed in along a good sized river's, bank. They apparently had the Blues stalemated, because every time the Blues tried to cross, no matter how many miles away, they'd throw them back with heavy losses. So the Blues pulled one of the neatest tricks I've ever heard of.--Early one morning the Blues started across the river, hell bent for election, apparently riding right on the surface of the water. The Reds knew that the river was about 10 feet deep along there, so they didn't have heavy forces opposite that spot, figuring that the Blues could never cross there.
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down here. Two, picked outfits went out on maneuvers against each other, for a week. They've just returned. They were large outfits---numbering about a division each. The trick that struck me as being the best is the one I'm going to tell you about. The Red's were holed in along a good sized river's, bank. They apparently had the Blues stalemated, because every time the Blues tried to cross, no matter how many miles away, they'd throw them back with heavy losses. So the Blues pulled one of the neatest tricks I've ever heard of.--Early one morning the Blues started across the river, hell bent for election, apparently riding right on the surface of the water. The Reds knew that the river was about 10 feet deep along there, so they didn't have heavy forces opposite that spot, figuring that the Blues could never cross there.
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