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	Australian 8th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 8th Division was raised from regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from July 1940 onwards.
		The 8th Division was raised to fight Nazi Germany, and was trained for the conditions of the Middle East.
		Gordon Bennett's 8th Division the task of defending the prime invasion points on the north side of the island, in a terrain dominated by mangrove swamps and forest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_8th_Division (2999 words)

	U.S. 8th Armored Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 8th Armored Division was activated on 1 April 1942.
		On 19 February the division moved to Roermond, the Netherlands, and launched a diversionary attack, pushing the enemy north of the Heide woods and east of the Roer River.
		After a period of rest and training in mid-March, the Division crossed the Rhine, 26 March, and attacked Dorsten, which was cleared in the face of stubborn resistance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_8th_Armored_Division (533 words)

	Lone Sentry: These are My Credentials!: The Story of the 8th Infantry Division, 1798-1944 -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		To the 8th went the task of overcoming the enemy defenses to the south, and establishing a bridgehead between the south bank of the Ay and the Lessay-Perrier railway.
		Spearheaded by the 8th, the 90th Division and the 6th Armored Division were to bypass the German strongpoint to the east, continuing the attack on the southeast.
		Philip B. Peyton, and with the nucleus of division headquarters furnished by the 8th infantry Brigade of Fort McPherson, Georgia, the revived 8th Infantry Division initially was composed of the 13th, 28th and 34th Infantry Regiments.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/8thinfantry/index.html (5497 words)

	U.S. 8th Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 8th Division did not have battle experience in World War I; it returned to the United States and was inactivated in January 1919.
		The Crozon Peninsula was cleared, 19 September, and the Division drove across France to Luxembourg, moved to the Hurtgen Forest, 20 November, cleared Hurtgen on the 28th and Brandenburg, 3 December, and pushed on to the Roer.
		On 6 April the Division attacked northwest to aid in the destruction of enemy forces in the Ruhr Pocket, and by the 17th had completed its mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._8th_Infantry_Division (1025 words)

	8th Div Coldwar
		On July 27, the division drove through the Ay river line, opening a hole for the 79th and 90th Divisions, which broke east and west with armor and began the lightning drives that were to swoop past Paris to Germany.
		Early in February, the division was transferred to VII Corps control and moved northward to the west bank of the Roer near Duren.
		A limited number of men reporting to the division for training were assigned to an eight-week cycle, and subsequently were sent to such common specialist schools as the clerk-typist and automatic maintenance courses conducted by the 8th Division's Specialist Training Regiment.
	www.militaria.com /8th/coldwar/8thgyro.html (3401 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 8th Infantry was assigned on 17 December 1917 to the 8th Division and relieved on 24 March 1923 from this assignment to the 8th Division and reassigned to the 4th Division later re-designated as the 4th Infantry Division].
		It was relieved on 1 January 1959 from assignment to the 8th Infantry Division and reassigned to the 1st Infantry Division.
		Reorganized and re-designated on 1 October 1963 as the 2d Battalion, 8th Infantry, it was concurrently relieved from assignment to the 1st Infantry Division and assigned to the 4th Infantry Division.
	www.hood.army.mil /4id_2b8i/history.htm (700 words)

	8th Armored Division - Books
		On the 12th CCB was detached from the 8th Armored Division, put under operational control of XIX Corps, and rushed to the vicinity of Wolfenbuttel to protect the Corps' right flank which had been exposed by the drive of the 2nd Armored and Infantry Divisions to the Elbe River.
		While CCB was protecting the right flank of XIX Corps, the 8th Armored, as the reserve division of 9th Army, had moved from the vicinity of Unna to an assembly area in the vicinity of Braunschweig.
		CCA was to move from Wernigerode and clear the enemy from the area north of the temporary Corps' boundary.
	www.8th-armored.org /books/leach/tw06.htm (4440 words)

	8th Glosters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		29th March the 19th Division was entrained at Doullens and Candas and sent to the Messines sector to relieve the 2nd Australian Division.
		April 13th to 15th the Division was near Neuve Eglise and the 8th Glosters assisted in holding the line during the battle of Bailleul.
		On 19th June the 19th Division was relieved by the 8th Italian Division and moved back to south of Epernay and then onto Mondiment to rest and refit.
	members.tripod.com /~Glosters/8thBn.htm (2021 words)

	8th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
		Later, the 8th lost the forward ground attained on the 19th but later again advanced close to Federal positions on the Chattanooga Rd. Under heavy fire, the 8th held their ground until the enemy was driven back.
		At the Battle of Nashville on Dec. 15-16, the 8th, under the corps command of Nashville's own Gen. B.F. Cheatham, was involved in the repulsions of the enemy's "mostly colored" units assaulting Hood's right (eastern) flank during the 15th.
		The 8th Mississippi Infantry Battalion surrendered and was paroled at Greensboro, NC on April 26, 1865.
	www.datasync.com /~davidg59/8th_miss.html (4991 words)

	9th Division AIF; Tobruk and El Alamein
		The 9th Division was first formed in the United Kingdom during 1940, using one of the 6th Division units, the 18th Brigade, as its core.
		The 9th Division, along with a New Zealand, a South African, an Indian and a British division, grouped as the 30th Corps, formed the main attack in the north.
		The balance of the 9th Division (the 20th and 24th Brigades) went ashore at Labuan Island and Brunei on the north-west coast of Borneo on 10 June 1945.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/pages-2aif-cmf/9-div-aif.htm (1203 words)

	U.S. 8th infantry division patch and badge
		The U.S. 8th infantry division was activated early in 1918 at the tail end of WW1, however no engagements were fought by the U.S. 8th infantry division during the great war.
		The division's troops left their Irish training base for the Utah beach landing grounds (which were by now firmly held by the allied forces) in Normandy early in July 1944.
		The division was one of the many sluging it out with the retreating but battle hardened German army through the highly defensable French countryside and network of towns.
	www.argoss.co.uk /8th_infantry_division.html (240 words)

	Ralph H. Dunn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The VIII Corps plan of attack was to have the 8th Division push forward, overcome the strong enemy defenses to the south, and established a bridgehead between the south bank of the Ay River and the Lessay Perier railway.
		Similarly, the 90th Division was to take advantage of the breakthrough by the 8th Division, by-pass the German strongpoints to the east, and continue to attack to the southeast.
		The 2nd Division was to attack from the northeast; the 29th from the northwest; and the 8th was to make the main effort with a frontal attack from the north.
	www.dvrbs.com /ccwd-ww2/WW2-RalphHDunn.htm (3942 words)

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		Division was to advance the 70 air miles to the China border at Hyesanjin.
		Division was hurriedly assembled in the vicinity of Sunch'on and ordered north to Kunu-ri to plug the gap to the east of there.
		Division advance headquarters is established at Wonsan with the mission of relieving all Marine units in the Wonsan area of their anti-guerrilla mission.
	www.korean-war.com /TimeLine/1950/10-01to11-22-50.html (5852 words)

	Combat History of the 8th ID in WW2: Chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The XVIII Corps, which included at this time also the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Armored Division, was to attack across the Elbe, east of Hamburg, with the primary mission of protecting the flank of the British Second Army.
		The 8th Reconnaissance Troop was attached to the 28th for this operation.
		The 8th Division had fought its final battle in the European Theater of Operations.
	www.techwarrior.cx /~roliver/8th/8th-chapter8.htm (1267 words)

	8th Gebirgsjager Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 8th Gebirgsjager Division was formed late in the War by converting the 157th Gebirgsjager Division, in name, to the 8th Gebirgsjager Division.
		An attempt was made to raise the 8th Gebirgsjager Division before 1945, in 1944, by using soldiers from the 139th Gebirgsjager Regiment, but the attempt was never completed and the men being used were formed into Divisional Group Krautler and given the description, Division 140 z.b.V, which meant the unit was a "special purpose" unit.
		When the 8th was finally created by renaming the 157th Gebirgsjager Division, it saw action in Italy for the duration of its short life, fighting in mainly Northern Italy against the Allies in the Bologna area and Po Valley.
	www.feldgrau.com /8hg.html (162 words)

	New Iraqi Army-8th Division
		It means the ability of the division’s staff to plan and conduct the operations with limited support of the Coalition Forces.
		Main, final test to check the capabilities of 8th IA Div soldiers was conducted during parliament elections in December.
		Division staff under supervision of MNDCS Military Transition Teams had planned and conducted operation to provide the security environment during elections.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/nia-8id.htm (367 words)

	Gulf Region Division
		Farhoud, 8th Division Commander welcomed Maj. Gen Chervinsky, Polish Commander of the Coalition Multi-National Division of the Central South Area, Col. Larry McCallister, US Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South commander, and Howard Strickley, Director of Business Management, Gulf Region Division, to tour his new facilities.
		The 8th Infantry Division have trained with the Polish Army forces as the Iraqi Army continues steady progress toward providing defense for their own country.
		Facilities like these at the 8th Infantry Division are needed in order for the Iraqi Army leaders to operate in a secure, professional environment as they train, become more independent, gain confidence and earn respect for themselves and the Iraqi people.
	www.grd.usace.army.mil /news/releases/recon1012906.html (591 words)

	The 8th Infantry Division
		The 8th Infantry Division was known as both the "Golden Arrow" and "Pathfinder" division during World War II.
		The sanitary conditions at the camp when the 8th Infantry Division and the 82nd Airborne Division arrived were deplorable.
		The 8th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006150 (392 words)

	8th Canadian Division - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		The Eighth Canadian Division was an active formation of the Canadian Army that served as a home defence organization in the Second World War.
		On 1 Oct 1942, 14th and 16th Brigades came under command of the 8th Division, followed by the Prince Rupert Defences on the 9th of the month.
		Headquarters 8th Division, and Headquarters 16th Brigade, became situated at Prince George, BC, with the 14th Brigade at Terrace, BC, along with 22nd Field Regiment (less one battery detached to the Prince Rupert Defences).
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=8th_Canadian_Division (615 words)

	List Events for 8th Infantry Division
		8th Division Finance Office: Veterans who served in the 8th Infantry Division Finance Office in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, from 1958 to 1961 hold an annual reunion.
		Seattle - WA 8th Division Finance Office: Veterans who served in the 8th Infantry Division Finance Office in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, between 1958 and 1961 hold an annual reunion.
		Seattle - WA 8th Division Finance Office: Veterans who served in the 8th Division Finance Office in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, between 1958 and 1961 hold an annual reunion.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageListEvents/1,13512,100007,00.html (182 words)

	Avalanche Press
		A planned 10th Division had to be broken up before it completed forming, to make up losses in the other units, while 1st Australian Armoured Division never left the home country (though some of its battalions fought the Japanese in New Guinea).
		While not combat-hardened like the other AIF divisions, it contained the same mixture of pre-war regulars and enthusiastic volunteers as the other divisions, had trained for a year and a half by the time of the Japanese invasion, and had had some months to become acclimated to Malaya’s damp heat.
		The Diggers of 8th Division were not committed in the fighting for northern and central Malaya in December 1941 and early January 1942, where the Japanese successively outflanked positions of the III Indian Ciorps and drove the British and Indian troops back into Johore, the Malayan sultanate flanking Singapore.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AussiesInMalaya.php (1572 words)

	The 8th Armored Division
		The 8th Armored Division landed in France in January 1945 and advanced rapidly to the Alsace region by the end of the month.
		In late March, the 8th crossed the Rhine River and moved into the industrial Ruhr region, where it took part in heavy fighting.
		The 8th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=&ModuleId=10006149 (320 words)

	news - Iraqi Army Division certified (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This means the division will now have the ability to plan and conduct the operations with limited support of Coalition Forces.
		The main and final test was to check the capabilities of 8th IAD Soldiers during parliamentary elections in December.
		Division staff, under supervision of Multi-National Division Central South Military Transition Teams, had planned and conducted operations to provide the security environment during elections.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=130236&src=0 (376 words)

	Bleach Portal » Jump into the Bleach Anime/Manga with Bleach Portal!
		Each Division of the Gotei 13 has a Captain and a Vice Captain, they are generally the strongest of the whole Division.
		The Tenth Division Captain is the youngest captain in the Gotei 13 by a considerable margin.
		However, the entire Thirteenth Division seems to love and respect their captain with almost fanatical fervour, and he may thus be said to be a friend of all his subordinates, though not notably close to any of them.
	www.bleachportal.net /bleach/information/gotei13_guide (3946 words)

	Pinal County seeks to add 8th court division, judge
		Hectic population growth spurred the Pinal County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday to petition Gov. Janet Napolitano for an eighth Superior Court division and judge.
		O'Neil said statutorily the court was overdue for this eighth division.
		According to the state constitution, a county should not exceed the ratio of one judge per 30,000 residents.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0728evJudge.html (457 words)

	8TH ARMORED DIVISION
		One element, Combat Command A, took part in the Third Army drive against the MoselleSaar salient, supporting the 94th Division attack on Nennig, Berg, and Sinz, 19-28 January 1945.
		The Division moved to Simpelveld, Holland, and continued training during the first half of February 1945.
		On 19 February the Division moved to Roermond, Holland, and launched a diversionary attack, pushing the enemy north of the Heide woods and east of the Roer River.
	members.home.nl /alasoe/8th_armored_division.htm (367 words)

	8thIDassoc
		Former soldiers of the 8th Infantry Division from beginning to end.....
		to keep the memories and spirit of the 8th Infantry Division from fading into history........
		To offer at little or no cost 8th ID memorabilia to our members.......
	www.8thinfdiv.homestead.com /assoc1.html (290 words)

	28th Field Artillery 8th Infantry Division
		In Mid December 1956 the Division participated in Operation War Hawk a NATO field exercise.
		Grafenwher and Vilsek were, and probably still are, famous for their mud in winter and spring and dust in the summer.
		In the late summer of 1957 the 8th Division adopted the pentomic structure and the 28th FA was modified replacing the three 155 batteries with two 155 batteries, one 8in battery and one battery of Honest John Rockets.
	hometown.aol.com /jcullo3250/myhomepage/index.html (673 words)

	The 25th Division , 1914-1918
		A Division of K3, the units were assembled around Shoreham during September 1914.
		It served on the Western Front with distinction throughout the war, except for a period in 1918 when it underwent a major refit and reorganisation.
		On 31 July 1918, it covered 58th Division, and between 4 and 30 August 1918 12th Division, where it took part ion the Battles of Amiens and Albert.
	www.1914-1918.net /25div.htm (1356 words)

	Combat History of the 8th ID in WW2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This web site includes the full text of the original book Combat History of the 8th Infantry Division in World War II as prepared and edited by Lt. Marc F. Griesbach, historian of the 8th Division at the close of World War II in 1945.
		It is important to clarify that I am not the original author of this publication, and that I have only transcribed this document for historical purposes.
		As the grandson of an 8th Division officer (First Lieutenant Robert A. McDonald, Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 28th Regiment), I started this project as a way to learn more about my grandfather's service in World War II, and as a means of preserving valuable military history for the benefit of others.
	www.techwarrior.cx /~roliver/8th (255 words)

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