Word: 36th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave anyone a blood transfusion, the beneficiary would come down with pneumonia), the champ shot a birdie and took the 33rd hole. Another birdie evened the match on the 34th. An eagle 3 on the 475-yd. 35th edged Turnesa's birdie. Nelson coasted in by halving the 36th with...
Fighting under Major General Troy Middleton, the 45th overran 1,000 square miles in three weeks. German prisoners complained: "Don't you Americans ever sleep?" In September, alongside the 36th (a National Guard division from Texas), the 45th landed at Salerno to begin one of the war's most grueling campaigns. Another National Guard division, the 34th (from Iowa and Minnesota), helped hold that beachhead...
With the 3rd and the 36th, the Thunderbirds landed in southern France, cracked the brittle shell of German resistance and slogged north. The 45th spearheaded the VI Corps' drive toward the Belfort Gap. By mid-December of 1944, the 45th had been 18 months overseas, .and 365 of those days in combat...
Reichsmarshal Hermann G&246ring surrendered in state. The 36th Infantry Division's assistant commander, Brigadier General Robert Stack, met him by appointment on a country road in Bavaria, saluted smartly, and escorted him to division headquarters. Major General John E. Dahlquist, who is proud of his German, dismissed an interpreter, led the Reichsmarshal to a command trailer, and conversed with him in dignified privacy. Afterward the biggest Nazi scoundrel so far bagged by the Allies lunched on chicken, changed into a fresh uniform with twelve medals, and put up for the night at a nearby castle with Frau...
...minute record of one of the tense and bloody battles for the Liri Valley in Italy in late 1943, it is a story told chiefly in terms of the experience of one infantry regiment - the 143rd of the 36th Division...