Word: 51st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christopher Dempsey (TIME, March 19) had wrought a precisely timed, superbly managed amphibious operation, but when it came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...
Strong where they had once been weak, advancing where they had once retreated, U.S. troops last week marched south from Lingayen Gulf toward Manila. They followed much the same route that the 26th Cavalry, 51st (Philippine) Infantry and Filipino Scouts had taken in the heart-breaking retreat toward Bataan...
...divisions that rate highly with Monty are the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders, which were wiped out in glory before Dunkirk, were revivified to spearhead the breakthrough at El Alamein, and are with him today in Normandy. It was to troops of that sort that Monty made one of his famous proclamations: "Nothing has stopped us . . . Nothing will...
Earl was teaching school when the Spanish-American War came. He enlisted with Company F, 51st Iowa Volunteers. Typhoid fever laid him low in The Presidio's hospital, San Francisco, and he missed the boat when his outfit sailed for Manila. By the time his temperature had dropped, the war was over...
...faking to the left and drawing off the defense. His left half (50th Division) took a fake from the quarterback, then plunged through center. Meanwhile, the fullback (United Kingdom's armored division) had started to the left. Quickly he doubled back, took the ball from the quarterback (51st Highlanders) and sliced through the right side of his line, between the defensive left and tackle. His guard (9th Australians) blocked the defensive halfback and a historic advance had begun...