The Rise of Sergeant Krim

The old army noncoms who still wear chevrons in the vastly expanded U.S. Army of 1943 have something to brag about. One of them has set some kind of a record for promotion.

In April of last year, tall, serious George Krim was a master sergeant. He had 26 years of service behind him, and the respect that officers give to oldtimers who know all the answers. Today George Krim is a lieutenant colonel.

After returning from France in 1919, George Krim, with a new set of sergeant's chevrons on his sleeve, became a regular soldier and a tankman. Over two decades he built up a quiet reputation as an engine expert, an intrepid tester of tanks. When the Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion to a captaincy, with more rank on the way. Colonel Krim's present assignment: secret tests of tanks.

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