Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bhamo (bypassed by the Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
Gert Hans von Gontard, Anheuser-Busch brewery heir, onetime German baron, freed last June of draft-evasion charges, was inducted into the Army six days before his 38th birthday, dropped the "von" from his name, observed cheerfully: "I've been an American citizen for five years-and am proud...
During the first week of the new attack General Stilwell's troops did well. Total Japanese killed in the Walawbum-Maingkwan area were estimated at 2,000-800 by General Merrill's marauding infantrymen, 700 by the Chinese 22nd and 38th divisions, 500 by Chinese-manned tanks under Colonel Rothwell H. Brown. Total Japanese dead in the Hukawng Valley by week...
...reclassification from 1-A to 2-A (deferred for six months as a necessary civilian) on an appeal to the Presidential board in Washington. That put him back where he had been before his New York City appeal board had reclassified him-and it carried him well beyond his 38th birthday next March...
Last week the 38th ("Cyclone") Division moved out of the Louisiana maneuver area and headed back to its permanent quarters in Florida, and the most irreverent venture in military journalism swerved back into something approaching orthodox reporting. But the editors of the Cydoner could look fondly back on three months of unbridled gaggery...