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Beamingly happy to be back among soldiers, Dwight Eisenhower spent a day at the Fort Benning, Ga. Army Infantry Center last week, watching a demonstration of new Army weapons and equipment undreamed of when he was Allied Supreme Commander in Europe during World War II. Most impressive:
¶ The phenomenally accurate SS-11 anti-tank rocket, developed and manufactured in France, with a range of more than two miles. The rocket is fired from a portable launcher, is guided to its target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at...
¶ Drilling bull's-eyes with methodic precision, the U.S. Army's Blue riflemen's team from Fort Benning, Ga. won 14 out of 24 matches, set a national record of 1.107 points out of a possible 1,200 with the M-1 service rifle at distances...
The Army's Ranger course at Fort Benning, Ga. has spread through all branches some 4,600 elite young officers and NCOs who know from bitter training experience what it takes to fight with a fast-moving battle group in the toughest campaigns.
For Country & St. Maurice. First indication of the trend, according to Dr. C. Stanley Lowell, managing editor of the P.O.A.U. monthly, Church and State, was a drive last spring by the Catholic Holy Name Society at infantry-minded Fort Benning, Ga. to promote St. Maurice as patron saint of the...