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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1959
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Page SEVEN
'THOSE BOYS WERE REAL NICE"
Aggressor Force Wins War Games On Points
Not To Mention Hearts Of Local Citizens
So the Aggressors won the War the 21501 and 21503 have been
of the Sandhills.
That’s the final verdict of the
judges.. They won it on points,
we are told, but it will be hard to
persuade Southern Pines people
of that fact. Having been cap
tured by these desperados, we
are now firmly convinced that
they won through their own vim
and valor: battle-skill, hardihood,
derring-do. (Only we always spell
it“Darin^-do”, and why not?) and
that they could go on and win
just about anything else they had
a mind to, points or no points.
The story is that tlie Aggressor
Force won . because «f the weath
er those last two nights which
prevented the planned drop of
the three battlegroups banded to
gether against them, forming the
“Mountainian” army.
■‘Eyewash!” is the comment
hereabouts; or even less compli
mentary washes. They won.
Period. Anyway it would be only
one among many great victories
in which the weather had picked
the best team and given it an as
sist; from the storm that hit the
Armada off Plymouth Hoe to the
snows that hunted Napoleon back
from Moscow with the frozen
men falling behind him like
icicles.
And who knows? Supposing it
had been clear those two nights
and the three battlegroups from
the 82nd had come swinging
down from the stars—wouldn’t
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waiting for them; their bayonets
upsticking like .lacrosse players
with their crosses raised, waiting
for the ball to come in range?
Do you really think anybody
could have gotten by them?
Down They Come!
We thought of what it would
have been like, watching the
drop Friday morning that signal
led the end of the maneuvers. It
was on Sicily dropzone and we
could see it well from the high
hill where the observers were
stationed. Nine planes came over
at a time in rows of threes and
when the first chutes blossomed
out and you saw the tiny figures
dangling your heart was in your
mouth. Down they floated, out
lined against the sky, chutes
drifting in the clear air, as big
flower jellyfish drift through the
sea. You could see the jumpers
guiding 'them, or trying to, by
tugging on the windward or lee
ward ropes. We were too far to
feel the jolting bruising impact
when they landed but many were
skidded for yards along the hard
dusty field before they could get
their chutes deflated. And, stand
ing there on the hill watching
the jumps, we were told how a
man had been killed in the early
morning jump when his chute
had failed to open and others
had been badly hurt.
And then, in the second flight,
in one of the first planes, a man—
we could see him clearly—was
caught and held suspended only
a few feet below the plane when
—as we were later told—the cord
of his chute had gotten between
his canteen and his belt buckle.
You could see the men working
desperately to pull him back in
but the windstream was too
strong. He hung there helpless as
the plane flew on and on. It
seemed like hours tilj suddenly,
with a lurch of the plane, the
cord slipped loose and he drop
ped. And then the chute came out
after him and opened and all was
well.
"Kind of Nervous"
‘‘Was he hurt?” we asked the
men who had gone out to get
him.
‘‘No, not a bit,” they said. But
one added. “He was kind of ner
vous, though.”
Talking around to some of the
officers after the maneuvers
were over, we learned that they
considered these a great success.
“Not so much,” one of them ex
plained modestly, “because
everything went so well, but be
cause we learned a lot from some
of the mistake^.”
A noble spirit, and not always
to be found among the military.
For our part we can only say that
their aim was not at all well
achieved in these parts. (One mo
ment, sir! Don’t shoot!)
As we understand it, the aim
was to be realistic and to carry
this attitude into every aspect of
the local war. It comes as a shock,
then, to discover that their ef
forts achieved in Southern Pines
just the opposite of what was in
tended. Instead of despising their
captors local citizens just loved
them.
They Looked Scarey, but. . .
Oh, they looked sinister enough
as they skulked in, half crouched,
firing over the heads of the
crowd; they looked mighty scar
ey, but that was the end of it.
They marched past shouting, re
viewed by Br’er Desperate heil-
ing the heart out of himself; they
downed Old Glory and hoisted
up their own filthy rag; they
made resounding speeches, full of
sounds all too hatefully familiar;
they marched some of you good
folks to jail—“and you bad ones,
too” as archly coos WEEB each
morning—;they tacked up hor
rible posters and made horrible
threats^—and the folks chuckled
and grinned and loved every
minute of it.
Occasionally somebody would
say: “You know this might be
REALLY happening, huh?” and a
chorus would answer: “Yeah.
Sure. But aren’t the y swell.”
So, for this town, the main re
sult of the experience was that
everyone is firmly convinced that
it’s wonderful to be invaded and
that Aggressors are beguiling
people, the salt of the earth.
‘Cooperative; extremely
thoughtful and considerate,” is
heard from the lips of town offi- {
cials, “it was interesting as could
be; aind no'^ trouble; nothing dis
agreeable.”
And one lady said, as she. stood
around after the march past on
Invasion Day: “I kind of didn’t
like to see the flag come down-
and what kind of outlandish mu
sic was that? But you know those
boys were REAL nice.”
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