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Buckeye Valley News And Buckeye Review
Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Veterans returning from Europe to the US face intensive 44-hour weekly training before Pacific deployment, including lectures on Japanese tactics, weapons, and night fighting, with demonstrations by Pacific veterans highlighting theater differences.
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An intensive training program faces veterans returning to the United States from Europe before they are sent to the Pacific theater. The ground forces redeployment training program includes 44 hours of training a week, with lectures, group discussions, orientation courses and movies furnishing background for the course.
Training subjects include Japanese tactics and technique and identification of Japanese weapons, uniform, insignia.
In connection with the tactics and technique training, special demonstration teams of Pacific veterans will show the European veterans the type of warfare waged in the Pacific. There is less long-range artillery work and tank action. Distances between our lines and the enemy often are shorter than in the European theater where a wide "No Man's Land" was common.
Another factor to be stressed is night fighting. The Japanese move supplies and troops by night, whereas the Germans frequently moved in the daylight.
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An intensive training program faces veterans returning to the United States from Europe before they are sent to the Pacific theater. The ground forces redeployment training program includes 44 hours of training a week, with lectures, group discussions, orientation courses and movies furnishing background for the course. Training subjects include Japanese tactics and technique and identification of Japanese weapons, uniform, insignia. In connection with the tactics and technique training, special demonstration teams of Pacific veterans will show the European veterans the type of warfare waged in the Pacific. There is less long-range artillery work and tank action. Distances between our lines and the enemy often are shorter than in the European theater where a wide "No Man's Land" was common. Another factor to be stressed is night fighting. The Japanese move supplies and troops by night, whereas the Germans frequently moved in the daylight.