ARMY: Test For the Fourth

A long caterpillar of cloud last week wound over the drought-baked hills of Fort Benning, Ga. Within its dusty, choking interior moved a new kind of U.S. fighting team, facing its first test.

The Fourth Division, transformed from a motorized outfit into a division part armored, part motorized, was being tested as model for the infantry division of 1942. It was the U.S. Army's experiment to find the best type of unit to do the all-important job of following armored spearheads. The test showed that an outfit like the Fourth, plowing along...

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