Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Regiment Formed...
...Albania, capturing 100 men in about the time that the Nazis were taking 100,000 in Thrace and Yugoslavia was not the answer. At noon on the sixth day, German motorcycle patrols met the van guard of a pompous Italian parade (the Arezzo and Florence Divisions of regulars, a regiment of Bersaglieri, a legion of Blackshirts) which had succeeded in push ing about six miles out of Albania against little resistance except an unseasonal snow storm...
...gunner in the Royal Regiment of Artillery (Territorial Army) now serving in the west of England, and have been for several years past an enthusiastic reader of your most interesting journal...
...Troops from overseas had the edge on the Tommies in the competition for local girls, particularly Canadians with their high pay. The feud between one Scots I regiment and a Polish one quartered near by is so bitter that Highland privates have taken to socking Polish officers, are only "warned" by courts-martial...
...maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules. He had talked to kings, prime ministers, generals, admirals. As a lawyer he was well equipped to digest what he heard. As a soldier (he commanded New York's "Fighting 69th" Regiment in World War I, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the D.S.C. and D.S.M.) he was well equipped to put together what he saw. As a reporter he was a natural. But no newspaper got Wild Bill Donovan's story. Wild Bill would not talk...