Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green to combat but trained to leadership, many in the '48, '49 and '50 classes had gone off to become section and platoon leaders, but they had had to learn the deadly lessons of combat under enemy fire. One outfit, Able Company, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division, went ashore at Wonsan last November with West Pointers leading three of its four platoons. By February, two had been killed and the lone survivor, All-America Quarterback Arnold Galiffa, had been taken out of front-line combat to become General Ridgway's aide. In another company...
...Communists stood last week and fought ably, stubbornly. Well-executed Chinese counterattacks frequently stopped allied spearheads and turned them back. At some points, U.N. and Red infantrymen lobbed grenades at each other from strongpoints several yards apart. A Negro squad leader of the 25th Division's 24th Regiment, asked by telephone if he was in close contact with the enemy, answered: "Close contact, sir? We're eyeball to eyeball...
...will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver a unit larger than a regiment. Says General Thomas Handy, boss, under Eisenhower, of the European Command (EUCOM): "I guess...
...precaution was not necessary; the Reds in the hills were taking too cruel a beating from artillery and planes to make any serious trouble. Disheartened Chinese began surrendering in the largest numbers since the war started. On the western front, Negro doughboys of the 25th Division's 24th Regiment overtook a score of Chinese who threw down their weapons and ran. The Americans disdained shooting the unarmed, fleeing men, brought them down with football tackles...
Much of the havoc wrought on the attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...