Word: regiment
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...military demarcation line that divides Korea into Communist north and U.S.-supported south, they hid beside a road some six miles from the Joint Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Private David Seiler, 24, of Theresa, Wis., were killed; Pfc William Foster, 26, of Baltimore...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
...statement that Lincoln refused bodyguards [May 10] is not entirely accurate. At least up to May 1863, my great-grandfather, Captain David Vincent Derickson, was in command of Company K, 150th Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers (the "Bucktails") and served as his personal bodyguard...
Seasoned soldiers, baaing like sheep, flatly refused to fight. At Soissons, the men of the 370th Infantry Regiment stormed the railway station, captured a train, and headed for Paris. A whole division was so rotten with mutiny that it was cajoled into holding against the Germans only by the hand-wringing eloquence of its commanding officer. By June 1917, out of some 100 infantry divisions, the French high command could count on fighting obedience from only...
French police pulled in a cloak-and-dagger suspect, a darkly handsome colonel who commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred to the security prison in Paris, turned out to be Henri Fournier-Foch, 50, grandson of heroic Marshal Foch, Allied Supreme Commander of World...