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Exercise Jupiter, 1951
Stars and Stripes
March 2, 2020
Henry Toluzzi ©Stars and StripesWest Germany, September, 1951: Two soldiers perched atop a half-track scan the sky during Exercise Jupiter. The three-day, French-directed war games saw some 150,000 Allied troops — including 45,000 Americans of the Army's V Corps — enact a mass counterassault across the Rhine against "enemy" troops dug in on the east bank.
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