Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unstoppable Israeli thrust through the Sinai Desert quickly became known as the blintzkrieg. It was led by the crack regiment known as the Bagel Lancers. When Israeli troops reached the Suez Canal, they grabbed the lox. At one point in the campaign, an Arab division spotted a lone Israeli sniper on a sand dune. The commander dispatched three men to get him. When they did not return, he sent a dozen. None of them came back. So he finally sent an entire company. Two hours later, one blood-splattered Egyptian soldier crawled back. "It was an ambush," he explained. "There...
...increasing possibility of war sent students into a new activity, volunteer military training. Captain Cordelier, of the French Mission, started a volunteer University regiment in 1916. During that year, 1400, or onefourth of the University, volunteered for it. An Aero Corps of 52 students was started the same year, and CRIMSON editorials favored the idea of universal military service. By January of 1917, a poll showed 72 per cent of Harvard students in favor of conscription. There were rumors that the Harvard campus might be used in the summer as a training camp, and that Harvard might even close down...
...multitudinous activities is the Rev. Gordon Cosby, 49. Born in Virginia, the son of a Baptist deacon, Cosby was ordained a minister of his father's church after graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. During World War II, as a chaplain to an infantry glider regiment that landed in Normandy with the 101st Airborne Division, Cosby began to think about the possibility of a new kind of ecumenical congregation based upon personal commitment rather than creed. While in Europe, he formed the experimental Airborne Christian Church, which was composed of soldiers from several faiths who organized...
...afternoon of May 9, 1940, the officers of our regiment, the First Motorized Hussars, were informed that Dutch Intelligence expected a possible German invasion on May 9 or 10. We were told to pass out live ammunition to the troops and we were given the exact areas in which paratrooper landings could be expected. Large sections of storm-drain pipe were placed on the runways of the airfields, and trucks were parked at intervals on the middle of the freeways to prevent possible aircraft landings...
Though the Air Cav ultimately drove an entire North Vietnamese regiment off the hills, it paid a bloody price. On one landing zone-"a burned-off, trampled and rubble-strewn glacis about double the size of a basketball court" -an Air Cav platoon led by Sergeant Robert L. Kirby, a slight, solemn, 29-year-old Los Angeles Negro, was ambushed by a full company of North Vietnamese. With the platoon was Look Editor Sam Castan, 32, working on a story about "the thoughts of men facing death." Kirby managed a quick radio call for help before taking four shell fragments...