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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