Word: 83rd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ninth Army's 83rd Division fought into Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...
This afternoon two doughs of the 83rd Division went across the Rhine at Düsseldorf. They didn't come back. But that was only the more proof that all traffic over the Rhine...
Smartly the 83rd Division band blared the serenade that welcomes recruits to Indiana's Camp Atterbury, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. About 250 civilians piled off the Sunday-night train from Detroit. They were no ordinary recruits, some were beyond military age, some had fought in World War I; all were members of C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. They had come from Midwestern armament plants to Atterbury's wooded hills to train a few days with U.S. soldiers...
Back in civvies, the U.A.W. stumbled into a 4 a.m. return train to Detroit. The 83rd rank-&-file passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys in the services have plenty of guts. We're determined to back them with plenty of sweat...