Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...7th Division of Railway Engineer Troops about...
Afghanistan today is known mainly for its hounds, carpets and pistachio nuts. Its rugged, ruin-strewn terrain is still strategically important, the geopolitical crossroads between China, Russia, India and Iran. But centuries ago it was a well-traveled highway. Remarked Hsüan-tsang, a 7th century Chinese Bud dhist pilgrim, of this 800-mile bridge between the East and West: "Here are found objects of merchandise from all parts...
...wounded even after machine-gun fire chopped down a tree he was using for cover on that terrible night in the la Drang Valley. Of the 21 men whom Reid treated, only one died. Says Captain William Shucart of St. Louis, surgeon for the 1st Cavalry's 7th Regiment, 2nd Battalion: "I was pinned down elsewhere, and Reid treated the wounded strictly on his own. He gave blood and antibiotics and patched wounds-all that I or any other doctor could have done, and he did them darned near as well. He's an amazing, wonderful...
...Dartmouth), he served as a combat mechanized-cavalry lieutenant in four of the five major European theater campaigns of World War II and won the Silver and Bronze Stars. He got his Silver Star in October 1944 when he was a 22-year-old second lieutenant with the U.S. 7th Armored Division then fighting in The Netherlands. He was leading a platoon in a unit that was locked in combat with German forces for control of a canal when the Germans broke through. Mulliken and two of his men fought a delaying action while the rest of his platoon withdrew...
...group was moved to Japanese-occupied Korea. There, on Sept. 8, six days after Japan's surrender, G.I.s of the U.S. 7th Division threw open the gates of their camp near Inchon. Johnson had been a prisoner for three years and five months to the day. Of the 1,619 Americans who had left the Philippines together, barely a handful survived...