Word: 96th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steaks. Crewmen, stroked by R.M.A. Bourne (a prisoner of the Germans for three years, whose father and grandfather had stroked and later coached the Oxford boat), averaged a puny 154 Ibs. Prewar average: 180 Ibs. Last week Oxford ordered the lightest boat in its history, for the 96th race with Cambridge March...
Killed in Action. Brigadier General Claudius M. Easley, 53, crackshot, Texas-born assistant commander of the 96th Infantry Division; by a Jap machine-gunner; on Okinawa. Four weeks earlier, he had bagged a Jap with one shot from a borrowed G.I.'s rifle...
Yaeju Peak itself, a 560-ft. knob which doughboys dubbed "the Big Apple," was first scaled at night by Company K of the 381st Infantry (96th Division). Explosive charges sealed off a number of caves, but Company K was forced to retire. Before noon the next day, U.S. artillery and mor tars took more bites out of the Big Apple, and Companies I and L tried the ascent...
...days on Okinawa the 96th Division had stood stymied before Hen Hill, a knobby 450-ft. crag just northeast of Shuri. Crouching in foxholes, trenches and caves, the Japanese could rake the flanks of any unit attempting to move around the hill. Two battalions had taken turns charging up; both had failed-with heavy casualties...
...whole thing took about 15 minutes. In that time Craft fired four clips from his Mi, hurled 48 grenades and the satchel charge. He paused only once-to pick up a Japanese officer's sword because he knew "those guys of the 96th would have had the field stripped clear of souvenirs by the time I got back...