National Defense: Tanks from A. C. F.

Into Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Benning, Ga., last week poured a stream of new faces. They were crack officers, detailed in a great batch of Army orders to join the new Armored Force. In officers' conferences the new force's commander, Brigadier General Adna Romanza Chaffee, leather-faced son of the late onetime Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, looked around at a wide assortment of Army insignia. Some, like himself, wore on their collars the crossed sabres of the Cavalry. Present also were the rifles of the Infantry, the cannons of...

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