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...Belvoir, as at other training stations, Engineer recruits get their primary soldiering in big doses, soon pass on to specialized training. Some will join combat regiments and battalions, will go into battle with infantry and artillery, lugging in motor trains a fantastic assortment of bulldozers, water-purification outfits, pneumatic drills, earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot...
...last summer, its commanders were left to evolve their own doctrines. Trouble with this situation was that the Armored Force is only part of a modern army. Last week the General Staff recognized this fact, ordered the Infantry and the Armored Force hereafter to cooperate in joint studies of combat principles, joint application of their theories in the field. Reason: the Army knew that Germany's famed, headlined Panzer divisions had had motorized infantry (transported in trucks but fighting afoot) to back up the tanks, hold ground after mechanized units had broken through enemy lines. Far-sighted officers then...
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 a few 22-ton medium tanks, would have to wait two or three months for the newest, 25-ton model which the Army demonstrated last fortnight (TIME, April...
That the bridges over the Meuse were left standing was denied by Army men, They claimed instead that German columns had found some shallow fords in the river, had driven scores of obsolete tanks, useless for combat, into the water, and sent their big 30-ton monsters crunching over these improvised bridges. But in the magnitude of France's fall their words went unheeded...
...sort of side issue, shaded and obscured by the thoughts of muscled pulchritude, it has also been announced that the best of the Harvard House crews will be asked to risk combat with a corresponding Eli College eight...