The only fully motorized U.S. infantry, one of the nine triangular (three instead of four infantry regiments) divisions in the Army, last week was chosen for an experiment: to try out the newest 1942 pattern for triangular divisions. Fort Benning's Fourth, a streamlined outfit commanded by spring-legged Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall, is a weld of oldtimers, new regulars and more than 5,000 draftees. For its experiment, the Fourth is to get 50% more fire power, the first tanks to be assigned as part of an infantry unit, and the first of the Army's...
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