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 U.S. 14th Armored Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, this, the strongest attack of Operation Nordwind, was halted by the 14th Armored in the fierce defensive Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen which raged from 9 January to 21 January 1945.
On 21 January, after the rest of Seventh Army had withdrawn to new defensive positions on the south bank of the Moder River, the 14th and its supporting units withdrew from Hatten and Rittershoffen and moved south to join the rest of the army.
The 14th Armored Division was inactivated on 16 September 1945.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_14th_Armored_Division   (614 words)

  
 Mission Statement
During the 1870's the 14th was assigned to Fort Randell in the Dakota Territory where for a period of ten years the Regiment fought the Sioux and other Indian tribes in the northwest.
Bypassing German strongpoints the 71st Division sped south with the 14th Infantry crossing the Danube and participating in the seizure of the city of Regansburg on 27 April 45.
On 1 October 1948 the 14th Infantry Regiment was reactivated at Camp Carson Colorado as the main component of the 14th Regimental Combat Team assigned to the Fifth Army with the mission of mountain warfare.
www.drum.army.mil /sites/tenants/division/2BCT/2-14INF/history.htm   (2165 words)

  
 Timeline of the Polish September Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The pocket at Radom is reduced by the 14th Army.
In the east, Przemyśl is captured by the 14th Army.
Kutno falls to the 8th Army and Brześć falls to the 3rd Army.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_the_Polish_September_Campaign   (439 words)

  
 14th Infantry "Golden Dragons"
On 23 July 1951, the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry was transferred to Fort Benning where it was assigned to and redesignated as a battalion in one of the 3rd Infantry Division's regiments.
On 15 December 1970 the 1st Battalion was reassigned to the 25th Division and the 3rd Battalion, 14th Infantry was inactivated with its personnel and equipment reassigned to the 1st Battalion.
The 14th Infantry was at the capture of Manila during the War with Spain, symbolized by the castle, and in the fighting around the same city in 1899 during the Philippine Insurrection, indicated by the palm.
www.25thida.com /14thinf.html   (6967 words)

  
 4. Trans-Dniestria
The dominant characteristic of the 14th Army (unlike analogous Russian military units in Tadjikistan and the Caucasus) was that it was capable of resisting the temptation to take sides, and, due to its firepower, was able to assume the role of an "amateur" peace-making force.
In addition, the proposal to use the 14th Army as a peacekeeping force was not only categorically unacceptable to Moldova, but intrinsically unpersuasive, since it was hard to believe in the neutrality of Russian soldiers and officers who, in most cases, resided or were born in the trans-Dniester region.
General Lebed, who was convinced that the 14th Army was the only instrument for preserving peace in the area, was skeptical of the negotiations between the leaders of Russia and Moldova and acted as an obstacle to further progress toward shaping the region's future via these diplomatic channels.
www.rand.org /publications/CF/CF129/CF-129.chapter4.html   (5071 words)

  
 14th Kentucky Infantry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In the organization of Sherman's army the 14th was commanded by Col. Gallup, in Strickland's brigade, Hascall's division, 23d Army Corps.
The 14th was engaged in all the movements of the Atlanta campaign, skirmishing, fighting, charging lines, defending positions, during the entire summer.
Burchett of the 14th was appointed United States marshal for Kentucky April 3, 1889, by President Harrison, and he added to his reputation as a gallant soldier the further distinction of a most admirable civil officer.
www.geocities.com /thomasspeed2/14kyinf.html   (1812 words)

  
 Moldova - Russia
Furthermore, strong indications suggested that elements of the 14th Army actively intervened on the side of the separatists during the fighting, using their heavy weapons to turn the tide in the fighting when necessary.
The 14th Army's commander, Lieutenant General Aleksandr V. Lebed', was politically extremely conservative and, despite repeated warnings from his superiors to restrain himself, had stated publicly that he would not "abandon" Transnistria's ethnic Russians.
The status of the 14th Army was scheduled to be reduced to that of an "operational group," General Lebed' was to be released from his position, and the number of officers was to be reduced.
countrystudies.us /moldova/43.htm   (791 words)

  
 Russian 14th Army in Moldova, Moldova armed conflict, Nistru or Dnestr in Russian on RussiansAbroad.com
However, in 1996 the bulk of the 14th Army remained in Moldova, subject to the outcome of long-inconclusive negotiations, under the title Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova.
(A bilateral 1994 agreement to withdraw the 14th Army entirely never was ratified by the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament.) In mid-1996 some 6,400 Russian troops of the 14th Army and two "peacekeeping" battalions remained.
In midyear Minister of Defense Grachev attempted to remove the popular General Aleksandr Lebed' from command of the 14th Army after Lebed' voiced increasingly sharp criticism of the Yeltsin administration.
www.russiansabroad.com /russian_history_335.html   (367 words)

  
 14th Group Army
The 14th Group Army, headquartered in Kunming is believed to be comprised of three divisions, an armored brigade, an AAA brigade, an engineer regiment, a communications regiment, and a pontoon regiment.
The 14th was comprised of elements of the 13th and 15th Corps as well as KMT units.
In 1949 the 14th Corps was comprised of the 40th, 41st and 42nd Divisions.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/china/14ga.htm   (214 words)

  
 14th Army Band (WAC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 14th Army Band supported the WAC Training Center and the post by playing for parades, marchouts, concerts, and special events.
During the period it was assigned to the WAC Center (1948-1974), the l4th Army Band (WAC) marched in three Presidential Inauguration Parades, it played several concerts at the White House, and marched in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
On 1 Jul 1976, the band was renamed the 14th Army Band and men were assigned to the band which terminated its unique status as the only all-woman military band in the United States.
www.army.mil /CMH-PG/topics/women/14aybd.htm   (499 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
MSG Bernice R. Goldstein served as Bandleader until 1975 when she retired; SFC Barbara L. Graham was bandleader until she transferred to another Army band in 1976; then the 14th Army Band received a male bandleader.
Authorized strength of the 14th Army Band (WAC) increased from 42 enlisted women and one officer to 60 enlisted women and one officer.
Army Chief of Staff approved plan to expand WAC strength from 20,400 to 50,000 by the end of FY 1979.
www.awm.lee.army.mil /NCO_History_WAC/NCO_Women_1961_1975.htm   (2189 words)

  
 Corps badge for 14th Army Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This became generally known as the 'Kearny Patch'." This practice was immediately embraced by the men in the ranks, and it is said that straggling in Kearny's command fell dramatically after this badge was introduced.
Subsequently MAJ GEN Hooker promulgated a scheme of army corps badges on the 21st of March, 1863.
The 14th Army Corps' badge was the acorn.
www.19thalabama.org /corps.html   (414 words)

  
 14th Chemical Maintenance Company, About This Website
The 14th embarked on troop transport number NY 631 at Pier 90 in New York City at 0300 (3:00 a.m.) on 3 December 1943.
On the troop ship the 14th was quartered in a section constructed to hold a Maximum of 150 men, but there were 315 men using it because they had to share it with 2 Army Air Corps Companies.
The 14th was assigned to the 1st U.S. Army from 14 December 1943 until 16 May 1945.
www.14thcmc.org /14diduno.htm   (649 words)

  
 The United States Army Birthday
Honorable Raymond F. DuBois, Under Secretary of the Army carries David Smith, son of SFC Paul Smith, recent Medal of Honor recipient, off the field after throwing out the first ball at the Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston during the Army Birthday Celebration, June 14, 2005.
Our Army is a campaign-quality Army with a Joint and Expeditionary Mindset, a proud member of the Joint Force expertly serving our nation and its citizens for 230 years.
The Army provides the Joint Force with the combat, combat support, and combat service support capabilities necessary to conduct sustained land warfare during extended campaigns.
www.army.mil /birthday/230   (365 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky’s Military Writings, Vol. 2, 1919: The Fourteenth Army and its Commander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
From his army committee he was elected to the second Central Executive Committee and was assigned to the post of elected commander- in-chief of the Northern front, after October.
May the Red Army men and commanders be worthy of their commander, the first soldier of the 14th Army.
It was on this army’s sector that Denikin concentrated his best Volunteer divisions, and it was this Army which formed the shock-group that inflicted a heavy defeat on Denikin in mid-October 1919, before Orel.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1919-mil/ch85.htm   (883 words)

  
 The 14th Army Tank Regiment - Veterans Affairs Canada
Army Tank Regiment (the Calgary Regiment) was mobilized on 11 February, 1941.
Army Tank Regiment, left Canada and embarked on a ship bound for the United Kingdom.
Army Tank Regiment went into history as the first tank regiment of the Canadian Army to go into battle with the enemy as well as the first engaged in amphibious assault during the Second World War.
www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm/history/secondWar/dieppe/regiment/army_tank   (405 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky’s Military Writings, Vol. 2, 1919: Instruction To The Responsible Workers Of The Fourteenth Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Communists serving in army units must keep a very careful eye on harmful elements of this sort and point them out to the commissar, so that the regiment may be quickly cleansed of them and the most guilty of them subjected to ruthless punishment.
All the army’s leading institutions—the Revolutionary War Council, the Political Department, the Special Section, the Revolutionary Tribunal—must firmly lay down and apply the rule that not a single crime committed in the army is to be left unpunished.
The principal fault of the responsible workers of the 14th Army is that they have not managed to bring the holding units up to the proper level.
www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1919-mil/ch84.htm   (2088 words)

  
 Press Release Archives #220-00 - MAYOR GIULIANI LEADS NEW YORKERS IN CELEBRATING 225TH BIRTHDAY OF THE UNITED STATES ...
Today's Army, has more than 150,000 men and women soldiers in more than 125 countries around the world, as peacekeepers, humanitarian providers, guardians of democracy and defenders of freedom.
Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera, who was unable to attend today's events, said, "Older than the republic itself, the Army has earned over 173 battle streamers, fighting in more battles, serving in more wars and contributing more soldiers to the cause of peace and freedom than any other service.
Together, our Army and America have created a tradition of democracy and a love of individual liberty that our nation and the free peoples of the world have come to rely on.
www.nyc.gov /html/om/html/2000a/pr220-00.html   (480 words)

  
 NEWSBRIEFS ON UKRAINE (01/10/93)
TIRASPOL - The commander of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova, Lt. Gen.
CHISINAU - Igor Smirnov, "Dniester Republic" president said on December 25 that "Dniester residents are being conscripted into, and serving with, the 14th Army," and that he regards the Russian Army as a "compatriot army," reported Rossiskaya Gazeta.
He added that the army's presence in the Transdniester region has been "legalized." Smirnov's statement is the first open acknowledgement by local leaders of 14th Army conscription, although local media have been speculating about this for some months.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1993/029306.shtml   (622 words)

  
 War Diary of the 14th Army Tank Battalion (The Calgary Regiment) - November 1941
November opened with the 14th Army Tank Battalion (The Calgary Regiment) CAC, CA(A) quartered in Headley, Hants with headquarters at Headley Mount.  A detailed account of these quarters was given in the last volume of the diary dated October 1941.
One tank commanded by Lieut Douglas was detailed to proceed to Grayshott (two miles west of the battalion area) to have various pictures taken for the War Office.  This tank obligingly threw a track in the middle of the proceedings much to the delight of the photographers.
Capt A Woodhouse of HQ Sqn, Brigade Headquarters, 1st Cdn Army Tank Brigade, was attached to the battalion for regimental training.  Capt Woodhouse was assigned to ‘B’ Sqn.
www.johnowensmith.co.uk /headley/wd4111cy.htm   (2464 words)

  
 Union - U.S. Army Reg. Army Infantry (Part 2)
Attached to 4th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to December, 1861.
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862.
Attached to Rousseau's Brigade, McCook's Command, at Nolin, Ky., Army of the Ohio, to November, 1861.
www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unrginf2.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Battlefront.com Discussion Forums: Official SC AAR Contest Entry: J.K Zhukov, THE Hero of the Soviet Union!
October 24th 1942, Zhukov is given orders to protect Moscow using the majority of the Siberian Army and some units that are protecting Moscow at the moment, these units include the 5th Shock Tank, 5th, 7th, 41st, and 52nd Army, and X and V Corps.
January 2nd 1942, Operation Saviour was to resume, 52nd 11th and V corps, all under Zhukovs supply and command, attacked the 30th German Army, weakening it to 20%, then attacking the 4th German Army with 5th Shock tank and X corps, weakening the army to 60%.
August 14th 1942, Zhukov, with a massive Army group arrives in Warsaw, Prepares to take Prague, which seems to be undefended, and is planning the final strike, on Berlin, which is guarded by 2 corps and Rommel HQ.
www.battlefront.com /cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=002282   (1128 words)

  
 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 14th Army has achieved this result by recruiting soldiers on contract in Russia and locally, Lebed said, with the local recruits coming mostly from among the sons of the nearly 100,000 military veterans from Russia settled in Tiraspol alone.
On 8 August an assembly of officers of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova adopted the text of a message to Russia's Defense Minister, General Pavel Grachev, asking that the measures to restructure the Army be rescinded and that Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Lebed be kept on as commander, Interfax reported.
Lt.-General Aleksandr Lebed, the commander of Russia's 14th Army in Moldova, was urgently summoned by Defense Minister Grachev to Moscow on 26 August for talks concerning the latter's recent directive that the army be reduced in size and status--a measure that Lebed has publicly denounced and threatened to disobey.
www.republicamoldova.org /1994.html   (15016 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - From RAF to 14th Army dictated by Charles (Bill) Pickering - A2089712
Following basic training I was posted to Cosford to do an aeroplane engines course, after completion of which I was sent to Bruntingthorpe, which is roughly midway between Rugby and Leicester, 5 miles north of Lutterworth.
Later,I was part of the 14th Army which was to launch a major offensive against the Japanese in Malaya, but just before this happened the Americans dropped the `A' bomb on Hiroshima and this action caused the Japanese to surrender, prior to the land engagement taking place.
I served all over the far East during my time in the Army and remained with the Marines until I was demobbed in York during the August of 1947, holding the rank of Corporal.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2089712   (885 words)

  
 War Diary of the 14th Army Tank Battalion (The Calgary Regiment) - December 1941
A special demonstration of the various types of vehicles and equipment within the battalion was put on on Ludshott Common for twelve officers of the Royal Marines who visited the battalion.  They were given an opportunity to inspect the various types of tanks and vehicles and to ride in them all.
Aircraft from #400 Army Co-operation Squadron, RCAF, stationed at Odiham, put on a mock air attack on all the squadron headquarters in the battalion.  The attack lasted for ten minutes.  #400 Sqn is equipped with single-seater fighters – Tomahawks – specially adapted for army co-operation work.
At the regular Monday evening meeting of the officers, Lieut-Col Andrews spoke to his officers for the first time.  He expressed his pleasure at being able to come to this battalion and outlined roughly what his policy would be for the immediate future.
www.johnowensmith.co.uk /headley/wd4112cy.htm   (1921 words)

  
 42nd Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Attached to 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, October to December, 1861.
14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to April, 1862.
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1863.
www.indianainthecivilwar.com /rgmnt/42ind.htm   (327 words)

  
 14th Army Air Force patch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Fourteenth Air Force served in combat against the Japanese, operating primarily in China, until the end of the war.
The star encompassing a red circle is a symbol for army air forces.
The "Flying Tiger" is the emblem of the famous American volunteer group under the command of Major General Claire Chennault, and pays tribute to that group.
www.nmia.com /~valorc/embpatches/aaf/14af.html   (132 words)

  
 Coll. 1: Peter Vredenburgh (1837-1864) Papers, 1856-1868
On September 5, 1863, he was appointed Inspector-General of the 3rd Division of the 3rd Corps of the 14th Regiment by General William Henry French and was attached to the staff of General Washington Lafayette Elliot until October 4, 1863.
On September 19, 1864, under Major Vredenburgh's command, the 14th Regiment participated in the Battle of Opequan near Winchester, Virginia, where he was fatally wounded.
Poling, Co. G, 14th Regiment N.J. Volunteers of Keyport, N.J., a newspaper clipping describing the Battle of Opequan, where Vredenburgh died, and a undated photograph of a soldier in uniform.
www.monmouth.com /~mcha3/coll1.html   (936 words)

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