Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Nov. 10 report on the SS meeting in Verden, Germany, addressed by ex-Paratrooper General "Papa" Ramcke, reminded me of the circumstances of his capture by our 13th Regiment of the 8th Division . . . on Sept. 19, 1944. Word was received that General Ramcke desired to surrender. He and his staff were in a bunker 75 feet underground, on the Crozon Peninsula outside Brest . . . At 1830 hours, Brigadier General Charles D. W. Canham . . . appeared to accept surrender. Very haughtily, Ramcke demanded of Canham his credentials. Canham pointed to the accompanying Tommy-gun and BAR men and replied: "These...
...years ago this month, the 8th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division was pressed inside a tiny perimeter on the Korean front by steady Communist attacks. The Reds pierced the lines and cut off the command post and the regiment's medical station. While the colonel organized his headquarters troops for a breakout, Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun kept up the spirits of the wounded and helped prevent panic among those left to fight. At dusk the survivors fought their way back to the U.N. lines. Kapaun stayed behind, doctoring the wounded who could not be moved, and praying...
...Marines' own traditional philosophy of battle : throwing the big punch, subjecting an enemy to constant pressure, risking big initial casualties in violent assault rather than submitting to a long, wearing attrition. Second Lieut. Shepherd, U.S.M.C., went into action as a platoon leader with the 5th Marine Regiment at Belleau Wood, was hit in the neck by a machine-gun slug, fought on with his men for three days and was hit again before he finally went to the rear...
...World War II he proved his capacity for high command as the Marines fought their way up the Central Pacific amid the deadly crash of island war: Tarawa. Saipan, Iwo Jima, Peleliu. Shepherd whipped the 9th Marine Regiment into combat shape, went ashore at Cape Gloucester as assistant commander of the famed First Division. He invaded Guam at the head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines...
...French army. La Tour d'Auvergne was a grenadier captain of such legendary courage that his superiors gave him the title of "First Grenadier of France." Ever since his death in battle, at Oberhausen in 1800, his name has been called at formal musters of his old regiment. Each time, a noncommissioned officer steps up to answer: "Dead on the field of honor...