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Since daybreak the Reconnaissance Troop had been pushing north at a steady 30 m.p.h. Two hours behind them the rest of the division-infantry, artillery, engineers and miscellaneous outfits-were pounding along at the standard speed. Here was a chance for a two-hour rest. The division commander, Major General...
The march had begun two days before. Few minutes after midnight the Reconnaissance Troop had pulled out of the pine-shadowed reservation at Benning, was far south when the rest of the outfit turned out of bed at 3 a.m. and got ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit...
After Meade and Benning, Mr. Engel's story still had eleven chapters to go. But he had already arrived at an angry conclusion. Said he: "The officers in the United States Army who ... are responsible for this willful, extravagant and outrageous waste of the taxpayers' money ought to...
Last week the Army got a new Chief of Infantry: Major General Courtney H. Hodges, 54. Among other infantrymen, it was a popular promotion. Now commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., General Hodges will take over his new job on May 23, when blocky, phlegmatic Major General...
Sergeant Pullen's tank looked just like the eight other light tanks in Company D: a squat, 27,000-lb monstrosity of one-inch armor, five guns, a single turret, a 250-h.p. radial engine, gasoline tankage for about 70 miles of combat operation at 10-35 m.p.h. It...