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...regiment of the famed Fliegerkorps parachutists from Crete was in Rommel's front line, getting acclimated for desert warfare. More thousands of parachutists and airborne infantrymen waited in Greece and Crete, whence they could directly attack the British rear along the coast, or be shifted to Africa for use from Rommel's airdromes...
...summer march, a mountain unit like the 87th Infantry Mountain Regiment (first in the U.S. Army) has four components: 1) hand-led mules with equipment (weapons of various calibers, tents, stoves, etc.); 2) mules with supplies (food and extra ammunition), traveling 52 in a herd with 16 soldiers mounted; 3) trucks, which leave the troops to bypass rough terrain; 4) men on foot...
With the beginning of the second summer session, Mil Sei students have again started regular drill. The regiment presents a different appearance than last spring, for boots and heavy breeches have gone into summer storage, with cotton shirts and trousers taking their place...
Private Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of PM, started basic training with an Engineers shore regiment at Camp Edwards, Mass...
...ranks to a captaincy by war's end. In France, he got into the hottest part of the fighting in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives. The Tribune itself praised his war record when he came home in 1919, declared he had "won the love" of his regiment. The Chicago News's famed front line correspondent, Robert J. Casey, who was a fellow officer with Field in the 122nd, describes him as "a hell of a good soldier...