Word: sereno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week George Marshall got down to hard pan. To his office he summoned Brig.General Adna R. Chaffee, who commands the Army's only mechanized brigade; Brig. General Bruce Magruder and Lieut. Colonel Sereno E. Brett, who long have championed tanks in the infantry. Up to now, the mechanized brigade has been a stepchild of the cavalry; tanks have had a secondary place in infantry organization. Result: the U. S. Army has nothing remotely resembling Hitler's armored divisions, up to last week seemed to be moving with dreadful slowness toward getting anything like them...