In their defense, GDW wasn’t helped by the reflagging fever that swept the US Army as they were writing. For example, 1-40AR moved to Hunter Liggett from Polk after v.1 was published to become an armor test battalion. In the reflagging at polk 3-77 became 4-35AR so that at one point the tank battalions were either 35th or 70th armor and the infantry was all 6th regiment. Much like 4-12 became 3-1CAV. A friend was there for the M3 fielding and recalled the brads and reflagging of the Cav were very close together.
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