Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course no soldier-general, captain, or sergeant-can see the whole picture. I fought with the 21st Foreign Volunteers, and it was one regiment among thousands. But the prison camp at Dieuze gave me an opportunity to talk with members of scores of other units in the French army; and their stories convinced me that our regiment's experience was much closer to the typical than the unique...
...Fourth is buttressed by 79 tanks. Its reconnaissance troop is expanded to a battalion (with 14 tanks). It has an anti-tank battalion, will soon get an anti-aircraft battalion, and a third regiment of infantry. Its weapon strength has been multiplied beyond the fondest dreams of any gun crank. It has 3,997 machine guns (including 1,460 Tommy-guns). It has 284 cannon, ranging from blunt-snouted 155s and 105s for the artillery to slim 75s for anti-tank work. And it rides in an assortment of 2,900-odd vehicles...
...original order for 4,500, distributed among the Ford, American Bantam and Willys-Overland factories. Newest contract for 16,000 more is held by Willys-Overland, which is scheduled to deliver the goods in four or five months. Present plans call for 95 jeeps to each Infantry regiment...
...Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses, and the British command had no anti-tank guns for this area except those to be got by stripping the units at the front. General Gort's armored forces were only seven mechanized cavalry regiments with light tanks, a regiment of obsolete armored cars, two battalions of infantry tanks, most of these with only a machine gun each. > The British had only about 130 fighter planes in France. (The French had only 40 bombers for daylight combat...
Colonel Jay, who has been in command of the Harvard Regiment of the R.O.T.C. for the past two years, received his promotion last week. He has been serving in the Army since before the First World...