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Above the snapping signal flags in the swirling tank battles in Libya hovered the ghostly tradition of Allenby, Jeb Stuart and all the great cavalrymen back to Genghis Khan. But in the clanking, barking tanks rode the spirits of the hard-eyed, dusty men of the U.S. Armored Force. For most of the tanks carrying the British regimental crests out into battle were U.S.-made...
...Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
From other posts the Army got tankers, artillerymen, engineers, cavalrymen, ordnancemen. Signal Corps officers, medical administrative men. And other fresh blood is pouring into the Army. From U.S. colleges this summer have come 8,000 graduates, with four years' R.O.T.C. training behind them-not finished officers but good officer material...
...American War, was Chief of Staff in 1904-06. Adna too loved horses and got to be a top Army poloist before World War I. On staff duty in France, he saw that the intense fire of machine guns and artillery had outmoded cavalry in battle zones. Unlike some cavalrymen, he took the lesson to heart, looked around for some substitute for the mobile striking power which cavalry once provided. His answer: the tank...
...Army's new carbine will be short enough (36 in.), light enough (about 5 Ib.) to replace the famous but erratic .45 pistol as a small arm for officers and noncoms. It will also give infantrymen, paratroopers, cavalrymen, tankers, machine gunners an effective supplementary weapon. Designed for rapid fire (either semiautomatic, like the Garand rifle, or full automatic, like a machine gun), it will enormously increase the amount of lead the U.S. Army can spit at its enemies...