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...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
...battalion of Britain's 6th Lancashire Fusiliers (infantry) supported by heavy armored cars swung into Ismailia. The fusiliers opened fire: eight Egyptians fell dead, 74 were wounded. Stella Townsend and her friends were rushed home in trucks. Ismailia calmed down...
British reinforcements poured in. In 36 hours, R.A.F. transport planes airlifted 3,500 red-bereted paratroopers, originally ticketed to Abadan, from Cyprus to Fayid, British GHQ in the Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
...years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert Howe, is in control. The ist Battalion of the South Lancashire Infantry Regiment, stationed at Trieste, embarked for Khartoum, the Sudan capital...
...been bludgeoned into inertia. In the west, they hit the 1st Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked from three sides, overrun and cut to ribbons...