Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among U.S. divisions last week to be on the front: the 3rd, a Regular Army outfit heavily sprinkled with West Coast soldiers, which spearheaded the first Anzio beach attack; the 36th, a National Guard outfit from Texas, which forced the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the bloody crossing of the Rapido; the 34th, Iowa and Minnesota National Guard, which battled its way to a footbold in Cassino...
Wrote U.P. Correspondent Richard Johnston for the combined press: "From beach to beach, Engebi was a scene of almost incredible destruction . . . surpassing what was dealt to Kwajalein. Not a single building was left standing by our bombardment. Even the skeleton structures had been hammered down into chaotic wreckage." Marine losses were "light...
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...
...have been killed, wounded or are missing. Nearly half these were Latin Americans, chiefly Mexicans, who have proved among the best of U.S. combat troops. Six San Antonians were killed at Pearl Harbor, but Salerno was costliest. There the 36th (Texas) Division, including 1,000 San Antonians, spearheaded the beach attack...