Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...
...Schofield Barracks, in a broiling sun, he reviewed the Army's famed 7th Division, veterans of Attu and Kwajalein. Over the loudspeaker Franklin Roosevelt said: "Your Commander in Chief brings you greetings. . . ." The President's car had just stopped at one corner of Hickam Field when a huge ambulance plane wheeled in from Saipan. The President watched as 32 bandaged veterans were carried to waiting ambulances, stopped three stretcher cases to shake their hands...
...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...
...took our Calvert books ... a Catholic nun taught the children. . . . Jim is now in 8th grade-doing beautifully. . . . Carl is in 7th and his teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
They were men of the 1st Cavalry Division, which numbers among its famed units the 7th Regiment, once wiped out with Custer on the Little Big Horn. The troops who fought their way onto Los Negros were the 5th Regiment, trained in cavalry maneuvers on the Mexican border but now operating as infantry. It had been nostalgic months since they had seen a horse...