Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent a telegram to the War Department, asking authority to organize an anti-aircraft regiment in Detroit...
...organization headed by Joseph Otmar Hefter of New York was recruiting men for an "American-Jewish Border Regiment," called for "young tough Jews . . . willing to face hardship, danger and death in the defense of America and of American Democracy...
Meanwhile, from Windsor came a fresh scare. Acting on the report of Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Reynolds, president of the Canadian Corps Association, that 7,500 armed German Bund members lurked just across the Detroit River in the U. S., a hundred men of the Essex (tank) regiment were rushed to St. Luke Road barracks on the international line. Special guards were assigned to 24-hour duty at the bridge and tunnel; patrols in the river were increased...
...Panzer division's infantry brigade has one infantry regiment of 70 officers and 1,247 men divided into two battalions equipped with light and heavy machine guns, howitzers, six armored cars and a motorcycle company. In addition to these highly diversified arms, the brigade includes a motorcycle battalion of 28 officers and 947 men with light and heavy machine guns and a field artillery regiment of 24 105-mm. howitzers. The brigade's anti-tank battalion has 36 37-mm. guns...
...synchronized to the guns' tempo, each manned by one officer or non-com and one private. Of these, five made a squadron, three squadrons a company (plus the unit leader's car, radio car and reserve echelon), three companies a battalion, three battalions to a 135-tank regiment, plus reserves. Two regiments of breakthrough and two of assault tanks made a 400-tank armored division...