[News Script: Fort Hood] Page: 1 of 4
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FORT HOOD 1:55 -1-
Several thousand soldiers and civilians fill the bleachers
erected gn a bleak, sunswept hill in the midst of the
huge Fort Hood encampment to watch the famed 2nd Armoreddivision celebrate its 23rd birthday.
All is in readiness
and the show opens with a spectacular cavalry charge with
Hell on Wheels pony soldiers dressed in uniforms,
thundering over the scrub-sand hills toward the viewers.
TANKS MOVE AFTER CAVALRY CHARGE
The thudding of the horses hooves dies away to be replaced
by the peculiar squealing clank that belongs only to the
90 millimeter gun tank. The 96-thousand pound Patton
tanks, named after the colorful General George C. iatton
of World War Two fame, toward the spectators in a
modern day cavalry charge. The division has two names:
Hell on Wheels, and Iron Deuce. It earned the first name
in Sicily, Wit
ial~Is and the second one in Belgium during War
Two. The Iron Duece was activated in 1940, and placed
under the command of General Patton. In 1942, it landed
in North Africa, fought way to Casablanca, and captured6
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Fort Hood], script, July 13, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc982668/m1/1/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.