Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their most important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
When Sitting Bull's outlaw Sioux massacred General George Custer and five troops of the 7th Cavalry on the Little Big Horn, the U.S. rumbled with indignation. Amid all the furore the Army brass was struck by a wonderful idea-since it was almost impossible to catch mounted Sioux, why not take away their horses...
...grey morning light, solemn lines of soldiers and officers watched a U.S. field ambulance roll along the dusty road toward the 7th Infantry Division Cemetery on Okinawa. Inside lay the body of the man who had led them through the Pacific war's bloodiest battle: Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the U.S. Tenth Army. Almost on the eve of victory, he had been killed by a Japanese shell in a forward observation post (TIME, June...
From Yaeju, the 383rd Infantry jumped off and took Yuza Peak. To the east, the 7th Division was battling for a summit 502 feet high when the enemy gave an assist. Jap artillery shelled Jap troops at the top. When the error was dis covered, and the fire lifted, the Japs on the peak were stunned and the 7th Division veterans were able to swarm all over them...
...perhaps final phase of the battle for Okinawa. In a quick amphibious maneuver, the Marines reached around the enemy's lines beyond the city, fought their way onto Naha airfield, largest in the Ryukus. Army troops on the east turned to free Baten Harbor. This week the 7th Infantry Division cut off the Chinen Peninsula in one of the swiftest advances of the campaign. Ahead lay flat, open land where the Japanese had little chance for effective defense...