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...divisions, one on the East Coast, one on the West; the 2nd Army Division, widely deployed over the U.S. and wholly unready; and five divisions on occupation duty (four in Japan and one in Germany) which could not be counted as available. One armored "command" (the equivalent of a regiment) is ready. The U.S.'s other troops are 27 National Guard divisions, but the best that could be hoped of them is that most could be made ready by a year from the outbreak...
...Major General Robert Ross, the British force which raided Washington on Aug. 24, 1814 not only fired the White House, but the Capitol, the Arsenal, the War Office and the Treasury. The invaders numbered three brigades. Sir Arthur Brooke, a colonel, led a brigade composed of the 44th Regiment (his own) and the 4th, commanded by his brother Francis...
...room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were told. One man from my regiment is here for killing an Allied prisoner of war. I remember him as an 18-year-old illiterate. Why should he be imprisoned? Why should I have freedom that he doesn't enjoy? He should be free to see his family and have babies. Allies are indifferent to their...
...average of 500 customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo's procurers' association, "but we felt that since peace had come back and spring is here...
Next day it looked as though Veteran Talbert was unduly pessimistic about the youngsters. Stepping onto the boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he ran into 25-year-old Fred Kovaleski of Hamtramck, Mich., who promptly dumped Talbert out of the running...