Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I the 32nd Infantry Division was the first to pierce the Hindenburg Line. Last week, in mopping-up operations in northern Luzon, the Michigan-Wisconsin National Guard outfit passed its 600th day in battle in this war, claimed another record: "the highest total combat time amassed by any American Army division in any war." Mindful that among combat outfits an argument in superlatives is easy to start, the 32nd waited to hear its claim disputed...
Uncounted weeks in action had made Pfc. Devon Hunsaker a ragged, unshaven, mud-caked infantryman.Slogging wearily back from the lines north of Davao last week, dreaming of his home in Utah, he saw a vaguely familiar face in the column of replacements moving forward. "What's your outfit, buddy?" he asked. "Thirty-first Infantry," said the newcomer, and moved on. A quarter of a mile later, Private Hunsaker slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "I knew I had seen that guy before. He's my brother...
...which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
...line the fighting was more conventional, with the U.S. 37th Division striking fast and hard along the Cagayan Valley, rolling the Japs back in front of it eight miles a day. But the forays into the Jap rear and middle were largely the work of a first-rate guerrilla outfit and its blue-eyed, sandy-haired commander...
...Production Board repeated that the future will hold even fewer cotton and wool goods for U.S. civilians. Reason: the Army demands a complete new outfit for the more than 3,500,000 soldiers going to the Pacific...