Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops and 2,700 guns from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Argonne front in 14 days. General Pershing called him the finest officer of the war, took him on as his aide from 1919 to 1924. Marshall spent the next three years on duty with the isth Infantry Regiment at Tientsin, China...
...Helping Patton during the Sicilian campaign in 1943, Wedemeyer, then a brigadier general, asked to be reduced to the rank of colonel so that he could take command of a regiment...
Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell told the House of Commons last week how gallantly the men of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment had died in Korea (TIME. May 7). Up rose M.P. Raymond Blackburn, independent ex-Laborite,with a searing question: Why had Britain supplied Red China with thousands of tons of iron & steel, vehicles, aircraft parts, rubber? Wasn't it "high time we ceased to supply the people against whom our boys are fighting...
...four days the marines fought off Red attacks from three sides. Then a British brigade and a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division arrived, and helped them seal off the penetration. The Chinese managed to cut the Seoul-Chunchon highway, but after that they "ran out of steam." They had vast reinforcements moving up, but apparently they needed to leapfrog them through the units that had already been mauled, and that took time...
...massive drive across the Imjin River, near Uijongbu, the Chinese managed to isolate the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.* For three days, their comrades tried in vain to relieve the Gloucesters. With most of their ammunition gone, the Gloucesters' commanding officer ordered his men to break out any way they could. Maurice ("Mike") Harvey, a slim, spectacled young captain, was one of the few who made...