Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...
...Normandy last year and roared into the ruptured German lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, the 13th, the 14th, the 16th, and the 20th - dashed off the edges of operational maps, slashed into Germany's heart. As uppity as all armored units (they speak pityingly of "the poor goddam in fantry"), they had never forgotten that uppity, onetime armored division commander, George S. Patton...
...Sloppy Joe's bar on Kansas City's 12th Street, big, black-haired Joe Mario, the bartender, served three soldiers, then sat down and wrote a letter to a soldier in Germany: "Dear Brother: A job well done. . . . There will be no celebrating for me till you come home. . . . Then we will put it on good. I have waited for this day a long time. Till we meet again. God bless you and all the world...
Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...
...front last week was like a race in which one horse surges ahead, then another, then another. But it was a race in which all the horses belonged to one stable - for the three armies hacking deepest into Germany, the U.S. Ninth, First and Third, all belonged to the 12th Army Group of quiet, brilliant General Omar Nelson Bradley...