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🇺🇸 In 1928 the US Army formed its first Experimental Mechanized Force inspired by the British. It was a combined arms unit including infantry and engineers motorized on Liberty trucks, a couple of self-propelled guns, cavalry armored cars and infantry tanks.

12/8/26, 2:22 pm9 reposts55 likes

Battle Order

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12 Aug

The testers were quite fond of the T1E1 light tank, but stated the Mark VIII heavy tank was tactically useless for a highly mobile division due to being rail-bound for strategical movements. Its slow movement would also be awkward if interdicted by artillery.

Bill R aka N1VUX

@bill-n1vux.bsky.social

12 Aug

We should note that the name Ft Leonard Wood was reused, home of Engineer & Chemical schools, iirc quite close to the(in)famous Uranus Fudge Co.