[WhiskeyX]

This 1941 Movietone newsreel provides a picture of how the U.S. Army has been conducting military exercises and maneuvers within American civilian communities since before the United States participation in the Second World War.

Note the use of the U.S. Army horse cavalry in this newsreel. The use of horses and mules by the U.S. Army became a controversial issue during WWII, because the Army chose to not use horses during the war in Europe. This lack of horses and mules became a problem in various war. Local Army units in Italy found it necessary to improvise pack horses and mules despite Army policy to the contrary. Patton's Third Army tried to obtain permission to use horses and mules and were refused. When the Third Army became bogged down in the mud they suffered needless losses and inability to maneuver due to the lack of the horses and mules of the cavalry.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Germans, despite their image as a highly mechanized Blitzkrieg force, used horses, carts and pack animals heavily right up to the last day of the war.

[ansel12]

In 1941, Army reserves Lieutenant Reagan was still in the horse cavalry, his fifth year of it.

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