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The only fully motorized U.S. infantry, one of the nine triangular (three instead of four infantry regiments) divisions in the Army, last week was chosen for an experiment: to try out the newest 1942 pattern for triangular divisions. Fort Benning's Fourth, a streamlined outfit commanded by spring-legged...
The Fourth is now almost fully equipped by 1941 standards (chiefly lacks 105-mm. howitzers). Well up to snuff on the new wrinkles in high-speed modern warfare (which it demonstrates regularly to officer-students at Fort Benning's Infantry School) it expects to get most of its additional...
Last week an armored division, a motorized infantry division, and aircraft practiced together at Fort Benning, Ga. In the U.S. Army, this event was news. Hitherto the Army has had neither the equipment nor the foresight to play at such modern elementals on a realistic scale.
Good armies are never too good to learn from each other. At Fort Benning, Ga. and Fort Knox, Ky. in 1936, Germany's Major General (then Colonel) Adolf von Schell was an honored guest of the U.S. Army. He saw its small, experimental mechanized units at work, took back...
Armored School. Like the rest of the expanding Army, the Armored Force last week was more like a school than a combat force. The First Armored Division at Fort Knox (Ky.), the Second at Fort Benning, had about 75% of their required equipment in service. They had begun to receive...