Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eighth day of the Saipan battle the Second and Fourth Marine Divisions had advanced rapidly on each side of the island. Then they had to wait, because two regiments of the 27th Army Division-with battalions faced in three directions, unable even to form a line-were hopelessly bogged down in the center. The third regiment of the 27th meanwhile had failed dismally to clean out a pocket of Japs in the southeast corner of the island...
...Captain Kerley's outfit spotted a long line of tanks and guns moving out, radioed the range. This time U.S. shells were merciless. The lost battalion could report: "Total destruction." By night Americans were back in Mortain, and a rescue battalion had worked itself up the hillside. The regiment's colonel heard then of Kerley's talk with the SS officer...
Thus strengthened, the conservatives moved up for the final battle. On their side were all the Republicans (save North Dakota's lone corporal, Bill Langer) and a solid regiment of Southern Democrats...
Thirty chaplains were on duty during the Mexican War, a new high in numbers for the corps. This record was soon surpassed, however, as one cleric was appointed to each infantry regiment during the Civil War. After the War between the States, some of the chaplains were assigned to permanent positions at Army forts and posts. In 1867, a bill of major importance was passed in Congress which put the chaplains on an equal footing with other commissioned officers...
...Germans stayed three days finishing up, throwing the scorched bodies into a ditch, burning everything that stood. Then, on June 13, the Führer Regiment of the Reich Division left Oradour-sur-Glane...