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	Battle of Imphal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Indian 20th Division under Major-General Douglas Gracey withdrew without difficulty, mainly because two of Yamamoto's battalions from the Japanese 15th Division were delayed at Indaw in northern Burma by the Chindits and were unable to intervene.
		The Indian 17th Division under Major-General David Cowan was cut off by the Japanese 33rd Division.
		This was a major threat to IV Corps, and on April 13, Indian 5th Division counter-attacked, supported by massed artillery and the M3 Lee tanks of the 3rd Carabiniers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Imphal (2336 words)

	Combat Chronicle- 17th Airborne Division
		The 17th Airborne Division was stationed in the United Kingdom from 25 August to 23 December 1944.
		From 23 to 25 December, elements of the Division were flown to the Reims area in France in spectacular night flights.
		On 18 January, the Division relieved the 11th Armored Division at Houffalize, pushed enemy remnants from the Bulge, and seized Wattermal and Espeler, 26 January.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/lineage/cc/017abd.htm (565 words)

	The Sikh Regiments : Gateway to Sikhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The remainder of the 17th Division was still held up in the gorge, but the leading troops of the 18th Division were level with the 51st Brigade on the other side of the river.
		The 17th Division was to gain contact and attack the enemy while the 7th Cavalry Brigade at Fat-ha was to move with utmost speed to reinforce the 11th Cavalry Brigade.
		The men of the 17th Division were unaware of the hopeless position of the enemy and were expecting to have more heavy fighting the next day.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/fww_mesopotamia.htm (3547 words)

	SC: Denial of Borlongan Motion for Reconsideration Final (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a resolution dated November 24, 2003 which was released this week, the Third Division of the Supreme Court said: “The Court deliberated on the petitioner’s motion for reconsideration of the resolution of October 13, 2003 which dismissed the petition for certiorari.
		Division – because Ours has the lower docket number and under the 2002 Internal Rules of Court of Appeals, consolidated cases should pertain to the Justice to whom the case with lower docket number is assigned.
		Division can be prevented from ruling upon SP 72270 according to their own independent judgment.
	www.bsp.gov.ph /archive/News_2004/2004-01/news-01082004d.htm (861 words)

	Mametz Wood
		The 17th Division were attacking the wood from the south and the 38th from the east.
		The plan for the attack on 7 July was for the 17th Division to attack Acid Drop Copse and the left hand side of the wood.
		17th Division had fared no better but it was upon the 38th that Douglas Haig poured his scorn - a stain that was to be a year in the removing.
	www.webmatters.net /france/ww1_mametz_wd2.htm (509 words)

	17th Pennsylvania History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the 11th, the 17th was posted to picket the line of the river, from Beverly Ford to Sulphur Springs, while the main column of the Union Army marched northward.
		Company G of the 17th was raised in the area around nearby Waynesboro and its troopers requested permission to visit their homes and families on the night of the 29th.
		Troopers of the 17th massed near the York Road and delayed the Confederate pursuit by rapidly firing their single-shot carbines and answering the Rebel Yell with "a ringing loyal cheer." The enemy advance was sufficiently delayed so that the routed 11th Corps was able to reach safety on the hill.
	www.bufordsboys.com /17thPAHistory.htm (2991 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - US Army in World War II
		Forty-two of the infantry divisions and four of the airborne divisions served in the ETO and MTO, the remainder served in the PTO.
		By early 1942 the division was organized substantially the way it would be used in battle, with, in addition to its three infantry regiments, four artillery battalions (three twelve-tube 105mm light battalions and one twelve-tube 155mm howitzer medium battalion), a cavalry reconnaissance troop, and division service troops.
		In this way the 501st and 506th Parachute Infantry were attached to the 101st Airborne Division, the 508th Parachute Infantry to the 82nd Airborne Division, the 507th Parachute Infantry to the 17th Airborne Division, and the 517th Parachute Infantry to the 11th Airborne Division.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/usarmy/infantry.aspx (1394 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, as an identified unit, was not a part of the 12th Armored Division at the Division's outset on 15 September 1942.
		The 17th Armored Infantry Battalion infantrymen, always supported by the Battalion's 105mm assault guns and 81mm mortars, and the 23rd's Sherman and light tanks, attacked villages in any of a number of ways, e.g., driving in on their half-tracks on roads, driving cross-country, riding in on the backs of Sherman tanks, or assaulting on foot.
		At 0940 the 17th Armored Infantry Battalion learned that they were to be relieved by the Texas 36th Infantry Division and by 1400 the 142nd Regiment had passed through Companies A and C on foot.
	www.acu.edu /academics/history/12ad/17aibx/hist17.htm (11348 words)

	17th Airborne Division During WW II - Overview
		After the Normandy invasion the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment was permanently attached to the division which was stationed in the United Kingdom from 25 August to 23 December 1944.
		Toward the end of August, 1944 the 17th Airborne Division, the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division became permanent units of the U.S. XVIII Airborne Corps.
		Operation Varsity would be the last full scale airborne drop of World War II and the assignment went to the 17th Airborne Division with the 507th spearheading the assault dropping at the southern edge of the Diersfordter Forest, three mile northwest of Wesel.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /18corps/17abn/17_overview.html (918 words)

	82nd Airborne Division During WW II - Overview
		Despite the heavy losses the division was moved up to the front by motor and reinforced by the 39th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Infantry Division on July 12, 1943.
		On 9 December 1943 Colonel Gavin was promoted to Brigadier General and assumed the duties of the Assistant Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne while Lt Col Herbert Batchellor assumed command of the 505th.
		During the early months of 1944, units of the Division were moved to England as the allies were preparing for the assault on Western Europe.
	ww2-airborne.us /division/82_overview.html (2396 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Indian 17th Division is slow in starting it's withdrawal and is nearly surrounded along the Tiddim Road.
		Part of the Indian 17th Division is surrounded and forced to fight up the Tiddim Road clearing Japanese roadblocks formed by the infiltrating 33rd Division.
		Elements of the Japanese 33rd Division continue to infiltrate behind the line of retreat of the Indian 17th Division, establishing a series of roadblocks that must be cleared before the British withdrawal can continue.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4403.htm (2415 words)

	17th
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	CAMPAIGN OF THE ARMY OF THE RESERVE IN 1800: PART 1, CHAPTER II
		This division will be attaché with the guard which remains in Paris, will replace that which leaves and will be been useful by the remaining half of the on horse artillery company (94).
		Divisions changed several times of composition, were always indicated by the name of their General, and never by their number.
		Vignolle is in Dijon 17th March and returns account to the Minister 30th which it established a service of correspondence and “placed to this end, of four in four miles, posts on the principal ones and the shortest communications, three hussars, a sergeant or sergeant”.
	www.simmonsgames.com /research/authors/Cugnac/ArmeeReserve/V1C2English.html (13479 words)

	Notes on the War. Engels 1870-71 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 17th division of the 9th North German Corps (one brigade of which consists of Mecklenburgers) remained on the coast while the French fleet was in the Baltic.
		Firstly, von der Tann with two Bavarian divisions and the 22nd North German division (of the 11th Corps) to the south and west, holding with the Bavarians Orleans and the line of the Loire; while the 22nd division (General Wittich’s) successively occupied Châteaudun and Chartres.
		Secondly, the 17th division is detached towards the north-east of Paris; it has occupied Laon, Soissons, Beauvais, St. Quentin, andc., while other troops — probably flying columns, chiefly composed of cavalry — have advanced almost to the gates of Rouen.
	www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1870/10/27.htm (1091 words)

	Seeking Information about Lee W. Allen (Thrash), WW II Veteran
		The 513th arrived in England and was shuttled to Camp Chisledon, the 17th Airborne Division staging area, on August 28, 1944.
		The 17th Airborne Division was attached to Patton's Third U.S. Army and the Division Command Post was established in the war-tom town of Morhet, Belgium.
		The new mission of the 17th was to clear the enemy from the west bank of the Our (or Ourthe) River, to cross the river into Germany, and to secure the high ground on the east bank of the river.
	www.skylighters.org /memorial_pages/thrash?M=D (958 words)

	Desoto Sun Herald - 10/18/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Floyd Gantzer was attached to the 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment, part of the 17th Airborne Division at the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium in January 1945 during World War II.
		The 17th Airborne Division held an 82-mile front from Grvet to Verdun, France, in the Ardennes Campaign.
		The 17th Division was the last American division between the Ardennes and the North Sea.
	sun-herald.com /NewsArchive4/101805/tp1de1.htm?...&story=tp1de1.htm (759 words)

	A Gliderman Across the Rhine
		On Christmas morning 1944, I was a member of the 17th Airborne Division when it was loaded onto Douglas C-47s at an airport in England and flown to France.
		As a result of the casualties the division had suffered, the 193rd and 194th Glider Infantry regiments were combined into one regiment, while the 507th and 513th Parachute Infantry regiments received hundreds of replacements from the States to fill out their depleted ranks.
		The 17th Airborne Division and the British 6th Airborne Division were to launch an operation, code-named "Varsity," over the Rhine River at Wesel, Germany, to pave the way for Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery's attack through the Reich.
	historynet.com /wwii/blgliderman (1260 words)

	The 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) - Unit History
		The 513th PIR transferred to the Tennessee Maneuver Area on 4 March 1944 where the regiment was relieved from assignment to the 13th Airborne Division and formally assigned to the 17th Airborne Division on 10 March 1944.
		Between December 17 and 23, the Germans were halted near St. Vith by the 82nd Airborne and Bastogne by a roadblock, defended by the U.S. 7th Armoured Division and the 101st Airborne Division.
		General Patton had ordered the 17th Airborne to seize the town of Flamierge where the 11th Armour and the 87th Infantry Divisions had encountered brutal resistance from the Germans.
	www.ww2-airborne.us /units/513/513.html (1407 words)

	The Border Regiment
		During this Dark period a new division was coming into being, that division together with Burma Corps would fight one of the longest retreats, across the most rugged ground, in the annals of military history, the retreat across Burma.
		This Division was the 17th Indian Division and it would fight in practically every major action of the Campaign From the retreat to Imphal, across the Irrawaddy and down the Chindwin towards Rangoon and Victory.
		The 17th was finally relieved by Slims Masterful Hammer and Anvil attack and the Race to Rangoon was on.
	members.aol.com /borderregt/17th.html (1078 words)

	US 17th Airborne Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 17th Airborne Division was a division in the United States Army during World War II.
		Actions during World War II It was activated on April 15, 1943 and arrived to Britain in August 1944.
		From December 23 to December 25, elements of the Division were flown to the Reims area in France in spectacular night flights.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/U.S._17th_Airborne_Division (509 words)

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		17th Avn Div Assn. Operational Diary 17th Airborne Division Covering January 1, 1945 to April 10, 1945Supplement...for November 15, 1944 to Dec 31, 1944.
		17th Airborne Division Troopers Buried in Overseas Military Cemeteries.
		Headquarters, 17th Airborne Division Summary of Operations Covering 3 January 1945 to 31 January 1945: Received from National Archives in 1986 (Recent Map of Area Added).
	carlisle-www.army.mil /usamhi/Bibliographies/UnitHistories/Divisions/17abn.doc (214 words)

	7th Division, 17th Corps
		SIR: I have the honor to report the part taken by the Seventh Division, Seventeenth Army Corps, on the march and in the battles occurring from the time I assumed temporary command of it at Port Gibson on May 2, until relieved by Brigadier-General Quinby on the 17th instant.
		I assumed the command of the division at Port Gibson at noon of May 2, and that afternoon had the advance of the army corps, and marched to the north branch of Bayou Pierre, on the road to Vicksburg.
		The two divisions, General Logan's and the Seventh, were united at the junction of the roads running from Grand Gulf and Willow Springs to Vicksburg, one brigade of General Logan's division preceding the Seventh Division on the march from there to Hankinson's Ferry.
	battleofraymond.org /crockerl.htm (464 words)

	2-17th Field Artillery
		The 2d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery was constituted on 1 July 1916 as Battery B, 17th Field Artillery.
		The 2d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery was reactivated for the second time as part of III Corps Artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in July 1988.
		The 2d Battalion, 17th Field Artillery once again demonstrated that they were prepared for battle - supporting the 24 Infantry Division and allied forces in the liberation of Kuwait from January through March 1991.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/2-17fa.htm (485 words)

	17th Armored Division
		The units in question were the 12th and 52d Armored Divisions in one pair and the 10th and 17th Armored Divisions in the other.
		The American 3rd Armored Division traveled north into Iraq encountering small pockets of resistance until 27-28 February, when the division encountered elements of two Iraqi Republican Guard Divisions (Tawakalna and Medina).
		They were supported by elements of the Iraqi 52nd Armored Division and 17th Armored Division.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/17ad.htm (329 words)

	Root Division - Arts and Education Organization
		A collective exhibit, part of a continuing series illustrating Root Division’s reach from the studio out to the community, featuring the work of resident Root Division artists + students from 8 Adult Education art classes offered by Root Division + artists at large.
		Root Division encourages and supports the integration of arts production and education for artists and communities.
		Root Division seeks to provide studios, event space and production facilities for artists and the community.
	www.rootdivision.org (232 words)

	Columbia News ::: SOA Film Division Presents 17th Annual Film Festival, May 1 - May 7
		The Film Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts, one of the nation's leading training programs for filmmaking, will present a weeklong festival of original film screenings and screenplay readings from May 1 to May 7 in New York City.
		Columbia Film Division students have won Student Academy Award Gold Medals in six of the past seven years.
		Recent films by Film Division alumni include Laurel Canyon, written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko ('97); Identity, directed by James Mangold ('99); and 2004 Academy Award nominee and winner of the 2003 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, American Splendor, written and directed by Shari Springer Berman ('95) and Robert Pulcini ('94).
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/04/04/film_festival.html (561 words)

	Army Service Corps Companies
		Renamed 17th Division Ammunition Sub Park and assigned to British 17th Division.
		These were mechanical transport units which moved supplies (except ammunition) from the railhead to the forward supply points, from whence they were carried forward to the troops by the horse transport units.
		When the Anzac Mounted Division was formed, the service corps companies that had supported them were replaced by supply sections, as horse drawn transport was too slow in the sands of the Sinai.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/1aif/supports2.htm (1393 words)

	History - Indiana Infantry (Part 2)
		Attached to 3rd Brigade, McDowell's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862.
		1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to August, 1863, and Dept. of the Gulf to June, 1864.
		2nd Brigade, 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, and Dept. of Georgia, to December, 1865.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unininf2.htm (4018 words)

	17th Airborne Division Association
		The 17th AB was rushed to Europe as they were sorely needed to help fight the Battle if the Bulge.
		The 440th Troop Carrier Group trained with the 17th AB in N. Carolina and dropped them on the Rhine Crossing DZ EUROPE: The Story of the 440th...
		The motto of the 17th Airborne Division is "THUNDER FROM HEAVEN".
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitCreatedPage/0,11003,700490,00.html (243 words)

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