Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin-gunned turrets out of action, but bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went along reported...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...
...week began, the 24th and 38th Divisions of long-faced Major General Charles P. Hall's XI Corps were probing down the coasts of Bataan. The plan was plain, but the Japs could do nothing about it. Hall's men made faster progress by far than had Lieut. General Masaharu Homma's arrogant legions in 1942; one after another, the natural defense lines were passed...
There were the 24th and 38th Divisions of Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army, both on the Bataan salient. The 24th, commanded by slim, handsome Major General Frederick Augustus Irving, sprang from an old square division in Hawaii. The 24th had been blooded on New Guinea and Leyte. The 38th was the "Cyclone Division" of the Indiana-Kentucky-West Virginia National Guards. Many of its officers had been businessmen; its commander was a regular, Major General Henry L. C. Jones...
...Monday the 24th and 38th Divisions drove ashore between San Antonio and San Felipe. They sliced swiftly to the southeast, grabbed the old U.S. naval station at Olongapo, drove down the road to the east to block off Bataan...