Eisenhower was assigned to the 15th Infantry at Fort Ord, California, in February 1940. General of the Army and President Dwight D.

He served with the G-3 staff of the 3d Division and also as division public relations officer. Clark, Chief of Army Field Forces, was stationed here as a major from 1937, when he graduated from the Army War College, until March 1940 when he returned to the War College as an instructor. Two officers who were to become famous World War II generals were stationed at Fort Lewis in 19. With 26,000 regulars, guardsmen, and draftees on post by Christmas, living space became scarce. On 1 July 1940, the post garrison numbered 7,000 men with the arrival of the IX Army Corps from the Presidio of San Francisco and the troop level would increase dramatically after September, when the one-year Selective Service Act came into being. A final prewar (1938-1940) spurt of construction gave Fort Lewis 455 permanent and temporary structures worth fifteen million dollars. Intensive infantry training and frequent field maneuvers were becoming the norm on post. By May 1938, the 3d Infantry Division and Fort Lewis boasted 5,000 men in garrison.

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