Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been demonstrated that in combat in Korea, Negro soldiers serve more effectively in integrated units." With this terse announcement by the Army, Supreme Commander General Matt Ridgway last week broke up the Army's famous all-Negro 24th Infantry Regiment. Within six months, by his order, all segregated units in the Far East Command, both combat and service, will be abolished, and their men will be moved into units side by side with white troops...
Then the Hashemite regiment of the Arab Legion assigned to guard Abdullah rushed in. The men fired crazily, clubbed with their guns, stabbed with their bayonets, killed at least 20. Other legionnaires, usually tightly disciplined, rushed through the Old City, looting, and shooting at anything that stirred...
...unhappy family moved to the coldly formal Châateau de Laeken, just outside Brussels. There Leopold and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, with a regiment of nurses, governesses and tutors, supervised young Baudouin's preparation for the King business. Like his sister & brother, the young prince rose each morning at 7, pattered in to wish his grandmother good morning, did setting-up exercises before breakfast. He was bitter when his sister bested him. "I'm a man," he told the gym instructor imperiously. "The idea of your thinking I can't do as well as a girl...
...dotting the perimeter guarding the Army's 25th Division near Masan, Korea last August, a thin, hollow-eyed G.I. sat intently watching the dark no man's land ahead. He was Pfc. William Thompson of M Company. His buddies in the 25th's all-Negro 24th Regiment knew him as a professional type-always quiet, never talkative about his past. There wasn't much Private Thompson wanted to tell. Born out of wedlock, he had been brought up by his grandmother in New York City tenements, had finally run away and been taken into a shelter...
...Seven Negroes won the Medal of Honor in 1898; five were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment on San Juan Hill, the other two were Navymen...