Word: ist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, many of Peleliu's Japs, waiting in their pillboxes, blockhouses and hillside caves, were still alive and full of fight when Major General William H. Rupertus' famed ist Marine Division (Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester) hit the teach last week. TIME Correspondent Robert Martin, lying on the sand between two marines, pinned down by mortar fire, heard one say "I wonder where we are." Said the other "It sure as hell ain't Staten Island...
...Line. Torrential rains and stubborn Nazi rear guards kept them from spectacular results, but Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was making his last stand, which would end when the British could break through Rimini into the plain of the Po. Already he had pulled back the tough Nazis of the ist Parachute Division who had taken a beating before Rimini, and replaced them with Turkoman infantry of the 162nd Division...
...line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
...Marine Division, under Major General Allen Hal Turnage, formed the left flank of the drive north, and the Army's 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division, under Major General Andrew D. Bruce, formed the right. The ist Provisional Marine Brigade had mopped up Orote, whose airstrip...
Marines' Homecoming. By week's end the peninsula battle was finished. Orote airfield, the Sumay base of Pan American Airways and pre-Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks were in U.S. hands. Crack fighters of the ist Marine Provisional Brigade (veterans of Edson's ist Raider Battalion, Carlson's 2nd and Liversedge's 3rd) had still to clean out snipers in the jungle around the airfield...