Word: regimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protesting your March 9 statement that "the British" captured Von Rundstedt at Bad Tölz. General Von Rundstedt was captured at Bad Tölz, somewhat dramatically, by 2nd Lieut. Joseph E. Burke of St. Petersburg, Fla., then a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division . . . JOHN F. MORGAN Canton, Ohio...
...trenches had been softened by insistent spring rains. Under enemy fire, most of the weakened shelters collapsed. One outpost was overrun, then recaptured by U.S. reinforcements in the middle of the night. The main Red attack, however, was aimed at Baldy's summit by a reinforced Chinese regiment of 3,000 to 3,500 men, advancing in waves through a curtain of their own fire. The 7th Division units on the crest could not stand...
...Hurt!" At 2 a.m., two Chinese companies began attacking U.N. positions on the muddy, jagged slopes of "Little Gibraltar." Mortars and artillery pounded U.N. lines. At 4 a.m., Stanley and twelve other men from the 9th Infantry Regiment were sent crawling up Little Gibraltar, looking for wounded. Halfway up, Stanley and a South Korean soldier ran into two Chinese coming towards them with their hands up, as if to surrender. Suddenly, from a closed fist, one of the Chinese flipped a hand grenade. The grenade killed the Korean. Stanley hoisted his 20-lb. rifle to his shoulder and killed both...
...hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
...integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers to be known as Mike West...