Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needed all its pride and skill for the next job: Dday, June 6, 1944. Under Major General Clarence Huebner, the ist landed in Normandy, and will never forget it. The blood of foot soldiers reddened the sands of "Omaha Beach"; more than 740 men of one battalion were awarded the Bronze Star. Later the division took part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared...
...ist's men who landed at Oran are left. Casualties have taken a heavy toll. Veterans have been pulled out to form cadres in other outfits. Said one doughfoot: "There have been three ist Divisions so far-one that fought in Africa and Sicily and two more since we landed in France...
...Armored landed at Oran, rumbled through to Tunisia. At Sidi bou Zid it was thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
First Cavalry. The history of the U.S. frontier is written into the record of the ist Cavalry. Its 8th Regiment was organized in 1866; part of its 7th died with Custer at Little Big Horn. For years, stationed at the century-old post of Fort Bliss, most of the ist Cavalry patrolled the Rio Grande. But the time the old noncoms remember most bitterly was the more recent one when they lost their horses...