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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...
Before the U.S. was at war, Holland Smith was a corps commander. He was training not only his marines but also the 1st Army Division in amphibious operations. Later he trained the 9th Army Division. But when the doughboys fought well on beach heads in Africa, Sicily, Italy, General Smith only read about it. In 1942 he was transferred to the West Coast, where he gave postgraduate training courses in amphibious warfare to the 7th Army Division (before it went to Attu), the 3rd Marine Division (which took Bougainville), the five regiments which landed on Kiska...
...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...
Great Hopes. Planner Herrey's belt highway, some 80 ft. high, would have six separate levels-for truck, bus, passenger and express traffic, two levels for parking. It would run between 9th and 10th Avenues and between 2nd and 3rd. Crosstown streets, much wider than present ones, would be laid out in pairs (e.g., an eastbound highway on the site of 40th Street, westbound on 42nd Street...