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Indications of the U.S. Army's growing size and strength:

> The War Department announced formation of four new armored divisions, making 14 in all. Of these, the 11th is already formed, the 12th is forming, 13th and 14th* will soon get under way. (The 7th and 11th will compose the new Third Armored Corps under Major General Willis D. Crittenberger at Camp Polk, La.)

> One of two new Infantry divisions to be formed in October--the 92nd at Fort McClellan, Ala.--will be the second all-Negro division of World War II. A new Infantry Corps, the Twelfth, has been formed under Major General William H. Simpson at Columbia, S.C.

> Secretary Stimson announced that in the nine months since Pearl Harbor more than 6,500,000 soldiers have been moved by rail in the U.S.--compared with 1,916,417 in the first nine months of U.S. participation in World War I. In June a million moved by rail. The Army is going somewhere.

> Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, gave the first official intimation of a very secret figure. He said that U.S. forces serving overseas now total more than 500,000. This is three times as many as had gone abroad in a similar period in World War I.

* At the beginning of World War II, Hitler had some ten armored divisions, now has an estimated 30.

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