Word: regimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to William Jennings Bryan. Democratic Baltimore, which had just barely mustered a welcome for Adlai Stevenson earlier in the week, turned out 100,000 strong to line the streets for Eisenhower. After dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Ike drove through more crowds to the packed Fifth Regiment Armory to deliver a speech on armed forces policy. Considering how much Eisenhower knows about this subject, the speech was disappointing to his friends-although the Baltimore audience cheered it uncritically...
...enemy on our eastern frontier"), but because he knew what the war would prove: that the Egyptian army was not ready for a desert campaign. "But the army was never consulted," he says with a bitter shrug. Naguib, a brigadier, took charge of a machine-gun and infantry regiment in the Sinai desert. He was the only senior officer his troops had ever known who literally led his men. When an enemy fusillade struck down most of his company, including a captain standing at his shoulder, the only harm that came to Naguib was a bullet that smashed his pipe...
...Korea, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., 40, son of the late General "Vinegar Joe," took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle...
Fire from the Heights. He enlisted in the Army again. Last summer he was sent to Korea, and was assigned to a heavy-mortar outfit, Company L of the 38th Infantry Regiment. One bitter cold day last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...message to 76's tough leader, North Korean Colonel Lee Hak Koo: "This is a legal order for you to prepare the prisoners of war in Compound 76 to move out into the newly constructed compounds . . ." Lee ignored the order. When the paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment moved in, the prisoners fought tooth & nail. In the first hours of battle 32 Communists were killed and at least 85 wounded; one of the paratroopers was killed and 13 wounded. But eventually a heavy tear-gas barrage brought the Communists out of their trenches, choking and weeping, with their hands...