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Purring southward from Washington through a chill morning overcast, the presidential Constellation Columbine headed for Fort Benning, Ga., and landed. President Eisenhower and the First Lady, on their way to a six-day Thanksgiving vacation, had decided to pick up their son and his family at the Army camp where...
Departing from the steps of the Newton City Hall at 6:00 a.m. amid shouts of "give 'em hell for Newton," he began his army career. Though originally intended for physical instructors school, by virtue of a wrong turn he arrived at Fort Benning, Ga., and paratroop school. There followed...
WILLIAM G. MILLER and Lieutenant, Infantry Fort Benning, Ga.
British gun designers turned to a much smaller weapon: a .276-cal. automatic rifle with a light slug and a relatively low, 2,300-ft.-per-second muzzle velocity. U.S. experts who saw the British .276-cal. perform at Ft. Benning, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 20) call it a "pipsqueak" weapon...
At the Fort Benning tests, the U.S. demonstrated its own new .30-cal. T-25, a 7½-pound rifle with a 20-round clip which can be fired automatically or single shot, and theoretically is capable of firing 750 rounds per minute. Almost everybody but the British went away...