Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops which took Randazzo were veterans of Tunisia: the U.S. 9th Division (not heretofore reported in Sicily) and the British 78th Division. The Americans, who had been fighting their way up the highway from Troina (see p. 30), were first to enter the town. They found it deserted and aflame, racked by explosions...
...fall of Palermo (see p. 33) identified Major General Geoffrey Keyes as General Patton's deputy commander, and indicated that he might be leading another army corps. Keyes is an old associate of Patton's and an armored-force expert, whose last published command was the 9th Armored Division at Camp Campbell...
...really worries about what happens to public funds, went farther, much farther, to find out. Last January, factory managers throughout the East and Midwest began to get visits from a mop-haired, jug-shaped man who began: "My name is Engel. I am a member of Congress representing the 9th District of Michigan. I am here to have you educate me so I can do a better job in spending your money. I have a right to ask, and shall expect your fullest cooperation. I want facts, just facts...
...9th Division stormed Green Hill and Bald Hill, on either side of Jefna, after veteran British troops had tried for six months to capture them...
...These two actions, and the work of the incomparable 1st farther south, opened the way to Mateur; and with the fall of Mateur began the collapse which spread across the entire German line. If the 9th and 34th had not learned their lessons so well, the Battle of Tunisia might not yet be over...