The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-15
Local Troops Going
 Into Action Shortly
43rd Division in the Fourth Army Corps Now on
 "Scene of Battle" in Louisiana; Men in Condition

army and navy collaboration in the cooperation of dive bombing planes with armored ground forces; the role of the civilian in the aircraft warning service, and its relative the interceptor pursuit plane soaring to meet and bring down enemy bomb CTS reported by the warning service
 Parachute Unit
 It will present the parachute trooper in action, the newly organ. ized anti-tank group and, for the first time, an air task force of some 500 planes of all types on either sid0 under direct control of the army commander, to accept and accom- plisl1 any suitable task, however large or small, which the army con- mander assigns to 1t.
 And lastly, 1t will present the spec tacle of more than half e million men on the same battlefield, all working toward the same end-to train themselves as highly efficient soldiers, each an integral part of the giant team.
 When Lieut.. Gen. Walter Krue- ger himself said in a recent talk: "We have a quarter of g million toughened, bronzed, willing, patriot ic Americans-lnen who are devel- oping day by day into single, urli- fled force that will equal, and sur- pass, in fighting effectiveness and devotion to country any other army the United States has ever before put into the field"
 Almost unbelievable progress has been made since selectees, units of the national guard and organized reserve began to be inducted into federal service slightly less than 8 year ago. Men have advanced from the raw recruit stage, when they learned how to cary themselves, to march and to salute, to the point where they now are being trained as effective members of specific task forces--those single-purpose units that move rapidly and with clock like precision to get their job done.
 Basic Training
 At the time last April when the war department announced the sum- mer training schedule for the army of the United States, small units oi the third army already had received an effective amount of basic train. ing--that carried on at a score or more posts and camps throughout the south dealing with the individ- ual scoldier, the platoon and the company. Then battalions and regi- ments were trained as units, and in late May and early June brigadei and divisions went through tht molding process that built them irlh coordinated teams.
 There are three army corps in the third army--the ", V and VIII. In the " army corps there are three divisions, the 4th, 31st and 43rd; + the V army corps four divisions, th( 32nd, 34th, 37th and 3Sth, and + the VIII army corps three divisiona the End, 36th and 45th. Tn addition the 1st cavalry division Is attached directly to the third army, which brings the total number of divisiorf in the one field army to il. There are also several brigades attached tc army and corps.
 In the training of the army corpk as a unit, preliminary to holding of the field army as one gigantic com. bat team, the VIII army corps held maneuvers in the Brownwood Texas, area in early June. Later in the month, the V army corps had similar training in the Leesville, La region. The 1st cavalry divisioI maneuvers with the 56th cavalry brigade in West Texas and New Mexico in July and the " army corps got its corps training early in August, at the same time thai the V army corps maneuvered with the VIII army corps and the End ar- mored division in the greatest army maneuvers ever held up to thosa forthcoming.
 With all of these preliminary eH- ercises out of the way, the third army high command feels. that It's more than a quarter million troops are ready for the big test.