WEEK-END INVASION TEST
a lay point of view the invasion test last Sunday furnished something which could not fail to prove instructive. The mistakes and oversights though patent to all taking part were nevertheless an excellent source of instruction and profit. In fact the whole manoeuvre brought it home very forcibly, that we as a defensive organisation had still much to learn. Just how far we were from the required military standard was very obvious and the lesson must have gone right home. The quiet serious talk by the O.C was also as timely as it was sound and telling. Yet there was no beter way of driving his words home than by providing the actual field experience of Home Guard units co-operating for the first time. It will be necessary to repeat the programme again and again in order to achieve something approaching perfection and all right thinking members will look forward to the fulfilment of Major Wilson's promise that future tests will be upon a progressively larger and larger scale.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 40, 15 April 1942, Page 4
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172WEEK-END INVASION TEST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 40, 15 April 1942, Page 4
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