Word: regimentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany declared war and even the Social Democrats voted the war credits, Hitler was transported. Since he was an Austrian, he asked for and received permission to join a Bavarian regiment. The war was wonderful. The army was more wonderful. Hitler was made a corporal, received an Iron Cross, was wounded, and later gassed. While he was recuperating in a hospital near Berlin, news came of the German Revolution of 1918, and of the Armistice that was to save Germany from Allied invasion. Hitler buried his face in his pillow and wept. Then he decided to give...
...infantry and one armored divisions of the U.S. First Army had pulled up along the narrow Mulde River, a western tributary of the Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
...Ligurian coast Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott's Fifth Army thrust for the old naval-base town of La Spezia. Working a pincers, the 442nd Regiment (Japanese-Americans) and the 473rd Regiment (Negroes) cleared enemy defenses around the famed marble center of Carrara. Italian Partisan units swarmed out of caves and quarries to help the troops capture the village...
...greying German mother led her pink-cheeked soldier son by the hand to an American prisoners' camp. "He is my son," she said. "I fetched him from his regiment in the woods. You'll take him? Good. Now I know he won't die. Tonight I shall sleep...
...Dusty Picture. This brusque, vivid novel about the Libyan campaign was written by a 35-year-old veteran named Gerald Kersh-in civilian life an author, bouncer, traveling salesman, debt collector and professional wrestler; in World War II a Hemingway-mustached Tommy in Britain's oldest (1650) regiment-of-the-line, the Coldstream Guards. Now Author Kersh has followed up his dusty Faces with a lusty tribute to his famous regiment. The volume combines two books which had been previously published in England. A British critic called the first "one of the best books about soldiering ever written...