10-041 Garand Picture of the Day - Gas Traps

[Mark in Rochester]

Infantry 28 Riflemen standing at attention.
Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX, US
Date taken: 1939
Photographer: Thomas D. Mcavoy





2nd Infantry Division

Interwar years
Upon returning to the United States, the division was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, at San Antonio, Texas as one of three divisions to remain intact and on Active Duty for the entire interwar period. It remained there for the next 23 years, serving as an experimental unit, testing new concepts and innovations for the Army. In 1940 the 2nd Infantry Division was the first command reorganized under the new triangular concept, which provided for three separate regiments in each division. Indianhead soldiers pioneered concepts of airmobility and anti-tank warfare, which served the army for the next two decades on battlefields in every corner of the globe.

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[TerryS]

I'm curious. Does you source for that photo say that those troops were the 2nd Division or the 2nd Infantry Division ?.

[Mark in Rochester]

Terry

In the same series was a picture of the commanding: Major General Walter Krueger
same date
same photographer
same location



Interwar years
With the end of the war, Krueger reverted to his permanent rank of captain on 30 June 1920 but was promoted to the permanent rank of major the next day. After periods at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, and in command of the 55th Infantry Regiment at Camp Funston, Kansas, Krueger attended the Army War College, graduating in 1921, and remaining for a year as an instructor. From 1922 to 1925, he served in the War Plans Division of the U.S. Army General Staff. In 1927 he tried to transfer to the United States Army Air Corps but his flight instructor, Lieutenant Claire Lee Chennault flunked him. Krueger graduated from the Naval War College in 1926, and from 1928 to 1932 he was an instructor there.[10]

Krueger commanded the 6th Infantry at Jefferson Barracks from 1932 to 1934, then returned to the War Plans Division, becoming chief of the division in May 1936. He was promoted to temporary Brigadier General in October 1936. In June 1938, Krueger went to Fort George G. Meade as commander of the 16th Infantry Brigade. He was promoted to temporary Major General in February 1939, commanded the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Sam Houston rising in October 1939 to the command of VIII Corps.