Word: 9th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Bradley brought in the 9th Division, teamed it with the 82nd Airborne Division, another battle-tried outfit which had made the first landings in the Cotentin. While the Nazis battered their heads and their armor around Montebourg, the 9th and 82nd struck west...
...north, the 9th Division had taken Néhou. Veterans of Bizerte and Sicily, the men o f the 9th were now fresh from England, itching for more fight...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...9th had gained twelve and a half miles in two days-the fastest advance of the campaign. At a crossroads near Barneville stood five German MPs waiting to direct traffic. The traffic that came was American...
...central altar goes back to early Christian times, was common up to the 9th Century. Today most churches do not have them. Some exceptions: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich...