Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inertia. In the west, they hit the 1st Cavalry Division with 5,300 artillery and mortar shells in two days, and with 300 rockets in one hour (World War II Katushas, fired from multiple launchers mounted on trucks). In the same sector, a weakened battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment* was attacked from three sides, overrun and cut to ribbons...
...same regiment that was wiped out under Custer, at the Little Big Horn...
When he was a U.S. Army chaplain in World War II, John L. Peters watched teen-age G.I.s die in his arms. He saw other kinds of suffering too. He never forgot the hungry Filipinos who picked food from his regiment's garbage pails. Back in his job as professor of religion at Oklahoma City University, Methodist Peters read with profound attention how the misery that he had glimpsed in Asia was being exploited by Communism...
...Murphy's comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...