Word: regimentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of Bloody Nose ridge on Peleliu. a Marine colonel fretted in his command post-a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret, surveyed the field before him with hard, bloodshot eyes. For many days his regiment had been fighting it out in this sector against Jap troops dug into the limestone face of the ridge...
Through these defenses, up these slopes, the marines fought. They rushed defiles on Bloody Nose, and burned out caves with flamethrowers. While they were at the bloody business, many of them were cut down by machine-gun and mortar fire. The division's 1st Regiment soon suffered 60% casualties. After ten days the marines had occupied five-sixths of the 2-by-6-mile island. Interim score: 7,313 Jap dead. Still to go: about 3,200 (estimated strength of the original garrison was upped from...
...most formal high U.S. officers in Europe. When an officer enters his office, General Lee expects the halt, the clicked heels and the salute-held until he returns it. Then he wants the officer to report in the third person: "Colonel Smith of X Regiment reporting to the Commanding General." This formal procedure accomplished correctly, he usually thaws cordially. At staff meetings his aide calls for attention when the General approaches. The staff rise, stand like ramrods until Lee walks to his seat...
...Hampshire Regiment, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Lancashire Fusiliers, the King's Own Yorkshire Infantry, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Suffolk Regiments...
...ninth day Ralph Smith was relieved (technically, for disobeying an order to attack), and Major General Sanderford Jarman, who had come along as Saipan's postbattle commander, took over the 27th temporarily, fired several officers, including a regimental colonel. Thereafter, the 27th performed fairly well until its greenest regiment broke and let some 3,000 Japs through in a suicide charge which a Marine artillery battalion finally stopped, at great cost to itself...