Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halsey McGovern's two sons, both Army lieutenants, died heroes' deaths in Korea. Robert, 23, of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, fell on Jan. 30, 1951 when his platoon was trapped on an exposed hillside. Severely wounded, his carbine ripped from his hands by a machine-gun burst, he had charged the enemy alone, hurling grenades until he fell. His avenging platoon swept over the enemy with fixed bayonets. Jerome, 21, 2nd Infantry Division, was killed twelve days later as he rallied his men in the face of murderous Communist fire. In due time, the Army announced that Jerome...
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender...
SEPTEMBER-Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a generator and two typewriters, received a candle and two pencils...
Dixieland tunes played by a U.S. Army band piped the 1st Battalion of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment ashore at Pusan, Nov. 7, 1950. Last week a U.S. band at the same dock played a solemn "God Save the King" as the 1st Gloucestershires boarded the homeward-bound troopship Empire Fowey. Of the original 600 men & officers who landed at Pusan last year only 120 were left...
...French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...