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General Devers succeeds able 56-year-old Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a reformed cavalryman who pioneered tank warfare in the Army when tanks were noisy nuisances, but fell victim to ill health just after the Armored Force was organized under his command last year. Most of General Chaffee's key subordinates are also ex-cavalrymen who have suspected and bitterly opposed an attempt by the jealous Infantry to get control of the Armored Force. As a horse artilleryman who has recently commanded an Infantry division, General Devers is a logical choice to quash such rivalries, weld tank, infantry...
Confirmed in command of the First Armored Corps last week was Major General Charles L. Scott, who until lately was also acting commander of the entire force. Out of hospital, back on duty as commander of the Armored-Force last week went Major General Adna Romanza Chaffee, a pioneer tanker who fought for recognition of armored units long before Hitler sold the idea of a separate Armored Force to the U.S. General Staff. Wan, reedy-thin in mufti, General Chaffee for his homecoming to Fort Knox had a review of the First Division. His men were happy to have...
Orders to the first Chief of the Armored Force, Major General Adna R. Chaffee, were to be ready for combat by last Oct. 15. Within the sorry limits of the equipment then at hand, he was. For his two divisions he needed 548 light (12½-ton) tanks, 220 medium (25-ton). He actually had about 500 light tanks, no medium...
...active command of the force was one of these unhorsed horsemen: peppery, profane little Major General Charles L. Scott, a onetime polo player and chief of the old cavalry's Remount Service. Adna Chaffee, having done more than any other U. S. soldier to compel respect for the tank, was ill in Boston. Pneumonia had sapped him, left him no better than a good fighter's chance to dirty his face again...
...fast had the Army's newest branch been born that no one had had time to devise an insignia for it. But it was not conceived without planning. Last week, in the midst of organizing two armored divisions and other outfits to make up the First Armored Corps, Adna Chaffee could see and hear the good results of Army foresight. Part of it came in the kind of officers he was getting-the best the service has. More of it came from the sprawling plant of American Car & Foundry Co. at Berwick...