Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1920 — NATIONAL GUARD TO HAVE TANK BATTALION [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL GUARD TO HAVE TANK BATTALION

In the re-organization of the national guard the war department announced yesterday, will be included four likht tank battalions, one company to be assigned to Illinois, one to Wisconsin and a third to Michigan. The plan is to have one tank battalion to each corps of four divisions of national guard, battalions to consist of three companies of twenty-five tanks each and the strength of each battalion to be thirty-two officers and 456 enlisted men according to a decision of the secretary of war, * under date of Oct. 4, 1919. . ' The chief, militia bureau, is directed to apportion tank units so that they may be utilized to the best advantage in training with the infantry and so that when united the companies will form complete battalions at the rate of one battalion per corps of four divisions.