As the new U.S. Army gets out of blueprints and into being, so the news of it will change, is changing, from news of plans and beginnings, to news of a new thing in existence. Herewith TIME prints an account of 72 hours in the life of a motorized division.
North of Abbeville, where the blacktop road bites into the red clay of eastern Alabama like a suture in raw flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from...
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