Word: 10th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first battle of El Guettar took place fortnight ago, when the 10th Panzer Division was driven southeast of the dusty Arab village, and U.S. infantry was in turn driven back from its forward positions on Djebel el Kreroua (TIME, April...
...April 10th...
...World War II, the Chaplain School was reactivated at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, as a school for commissioned chaplains of all components of the Army of the United States. Its removal to Harvard University took place early in August of 1942, and the first classes were held on August 10th of that year
Three and a half hours later the Germans called his bluff. The tough, desert-hardened 21st Panzer Division and Colonel General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German hospital at Tunis; according to others, he had just been called to Russia. In any event, his hand and genius were clearly to be seen in what followed...
...other posters on the walls of disemboweled buildings, posters including that of the artist who produced the little Nipponese angels (above). Peculiarly satisfying to the Chinese is also the kneeling statue (left) of Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet premier of the Nanking Government. During the Sung dynasty (10th to 13th Centuries) a similar kneeling statue was erected to Ch'in Kuei, China's Benedict Arnold, a cast-iron image that for centuries was spat upon and defiled by the populace in Hangchow. To the Chinese Wang is now in his proper niche...