Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halloween the 8th Regiment of the U.S. ist Cavalry Division was ambushed by Chinese Communist troops near Unsan in North Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). Long after the savage Halloween party had ended, survivors of the ambush continued to filter back to U.S. lines. Last week TIME Correspondent Hugh Moffett helped welcome to safety a party of weary troopers who had spent nearly seven days in Communist territory. His report...
...This is your regiment-you inspect it," said King George VI to Queen Elizabeth when they went to see a battalion of the Black Watch in 1939. That the royal remark was not a nrere passing-of-the-buck due to occupational fatigue was certified by two facts: 1) the Queen of England is the colonel in chief of the Black Watch, and 2) no Briton, king or commoner, could ever be too tired to inspect one of the most famous and glamorous outfits in British army annals...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
...Every regimental history is doomed, by nature, to be at best partly uninteresting to the average reader, at worst wholly uninteresting even to members of the regiment concerned. But able Author Fergusson has done all that can be done to explain the Black Watch to the remotest commuter without ever failing in his duty as scrupulous recorder. The skirl of the Black Watch pipes, the pawky character of its men, and the family feeling that pervades and binds them-all these do much to raise The Black Watch above the level of mere soldierly documentation...
...offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...