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Show OUR GREAT ARMY. Giving a brief outline of the forming of America's great army in the -war. Scientific American says: As a rule, the average American sol dier who went to France received six months of training before he sailed, and after he had been landed overseas there followed anothertwo months o? training either in England or In France. Then he was sent up to a part of the battle line that was In a quiet sector, and here he became accus tomed to trench life and the varied experiences ex-periences of the actual front. At tho end of the month he was considered to be In shape tor transfer to an active sector for participation in the hard righting of the great battles. It must be understood that individual soldiers, many thousands of them, Will have a different story" from this, to tell of their experiences, but a careful examination ex-amination by the war department of the training data of some 1,400,000 men, who actually fought In France, gives the actual average results shown above. The infantry soldier was trained in our typical combat unit, the division, which in the American army la composed com-posed of about 1000 officers and 27,000 men Outside of the infantry divisions there were training and sorting organizations organ-izations of about 10,000 men known as depot brigades; but the govcrnmmi policy was to put new recruits almost immediately into the divisions in wheh they would finally go into action At the signing of the armistice, 42 divisions di-visions had hern trained and sent over seas, the training of 12 others was well advanced, and four other division: were being organized. It is strongly suggestive of what was facing the German Ger-man army should the war have extended extend-ed into the year 1919, to learn that the plans on which the army was proceeding proceed-ing called for the placing of $0 divisions divi-sions in Prance before July 1919, and 100 divisions bv the close of this year The divisions which were organized and trained before the signing of the armistice were divided into three group: the regular army divisions which were numbered from 1 to 20; national guard divisions, numbered from 26 to 42, and the national army divisions, numbered from 76 lo 92, which were made up almost entirely of men called in under the selective' service act. The average composition of the national na-tional guard divisions was about two-thirds two-thirds state troops and one-third other troops. The 1 2d division was made up by selected groups from over the entire en-tire country and sent to France early, by its composite character, came to be called the "Rainbow division " The 41st division, which was a composite of troops from many western states, ! more the appropriate name of "Sunsel division." One of the greatest feats of construe tlon in our preparations for war was j the rapid provision of shelter for 1, 800,000 men during their period of training For the national guard and national army divisions, 16 camps and 16 cantonments were built. The nation l al guard units being organized rapidly during the summer of 1917, were put ! under canvas throughout the south, 1 and the cantonments, which were bulll I largely in the north, were for the national na-tional army, which was called in th-.j autumn of 1917. Troops had to be ae- I commodated at many other points besides be-sides the ::2 camps and cantonments i There were schools for training men for special services, such as the art il I lery, aviation, engineering corps, chem ' leal warfare, tank corps and quarter masters corps. There were also prov ing grounds and testing fields, such as the great Aberdeen proving ground oo |