Word: celeri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California, a team that was a sorry sight last year, scored a 14-7 upset over Navy, which is rated one of the powers in the East. California has a brand-new coach, Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf, late of Northwestern, and two slippery sophomore backs-Jack Jensen and Bob Celeri...
...face of a British Intelligence operative. But the fact remains that Italy threw into the fight, at the outset, ten full divisions numbering, with supply and labor troops, over 200,000 men, to which two more divisions were added after the going got rough. These included many celeri (mobile) units. At the Pindus passes the invaders were confronted by not more than eight divisions out of the 13, plus one of cavalry, which Greece could mobilize but of which she could equip only ten for fighting. Not even numbers of airplanes made much difference, for Italian planes outnumbered the Greeks...
Italian divisions have but two regiments each, 10,000 men. Three semi-mechanized celeri (swift) divisions are built around light tanks, horse-drawn and motorized artillery, with Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) on bicycles, motor trucks, motorcycles. Three armored divisions, and six armored regiments have heavier (eight-to-twelve-ton) break-through tanks, besides assault tanks, infantry in trucks, an engineer company with bridging equipment, anti-tank and anti-aircraft units...