Word: 69th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the hell sense does that make?" The Colonel's Cigars. Leipzig had 1,000 ack-ack guns, but they caused surprisingly little trouble. Most were captured intact. Nevertheless a hail of small-arms fire, and some shells from 88s and 105s, met the 2nd and 69th Infantry Divisions fighting their way in. The doughboys mopped up resistance, except for a nest of Germans, including the garrison commander holed up in the huge, red granite "Battle of the Nations" monument (a memorial to the defeat of Napoleon by a Prussian-Austrian-Russian-Swedish coalition...
...Your Great Hour." But Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...
Killed in Action. Colonel James Gardiner Conroy, 54, commander of the 16sth Infantry Regiment (New York's old "Fighting 69th"), peacetime National Guard officer. Brooklyn lawyer; during the assault against the Gilbert Islands; on Makin atoll...
...other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft. Pesky Mosquito bombers flying at 400 m.p.h. gave Berlin its 68th and 69th aerial pastings of the war. This week allied planes hit again at Paris' Le Bourget, six other French fields...
...Father Duffy, World War I chaplain of the famed Fighting 69th, has a namesake in Bataan, Father John E. Duffy of Toledo, who received the decoration of the Purple Heart for "singularly meritorious action" when slightly wounded in action on New Year's Day. He celebrates Mass at the front on an altar of ammunition boxes...