Word: 1st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muck. Ascending a narrow ravine they labored 2,000 yards to the shattered walls of the castle, sliding and cursing. Only a few snipers were left to oppose them, and the marines drove into the vital heart of the Japanese Shuri line. Said Major General Pedro A. del Valle, 1st Marine Division commander: "The most astonishing thing is how the hell they got there...
...1st Armored landed at Oran, rumbled through to Tunisia. At Sidi bou Zid it was thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
...1st Cavalry jumped into the war on the Admiralty Islands north of New Guinea. They swept the Japs off Momote Airfield on Los Negros and beat off fanatical counterattacks...
...months later the ist was ferried onto an enemy shore again-this time on Lingayen Gulf, where three years before the Japs had landed. The 1st's spectacular dash to Manila was only its first job on Luzon. It is still there, routing out Japs...
...Then the 1st was withdrawn for rest and reorganization. It went back into battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three...