Word: regimentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straight-backed, six-footer Pick once said: "I can keep up with Stilwell as fast as he can drive the Japs out of this area." He did. With 9,000 American engineer troops, a regiment of Chinese engineers and 10,000 native laborers, he had completed 167 miles of road and six airfields...
They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...Tiber. In the mountainous center the Eighth Army kept the Germans more heavily engaged. British troops captured industrial Terni, ancient Spoleto, once famed for its castle where Lucrezia Borgia ruled. Then they moved northwestward up the Tiber valley. One armored regiment took so many prisoners that help had to be sent to bring them...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
Among their units was the old 24th Regiment, which had supported Teddy Roosevelt in 1898 in the Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill. Two-thirds of their officers were Negroes, 90% of them college graduates. The enlisted men were boys who had lived in Harlem tenements, plowed Georgia farms, carted crates in San Francisco...