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	ANZIO 1944
		The U.S. 45th Infantry Division and Combat Command A (CCA), a regimental-size unit of the U.S. 1st Armored Division, were directed to land as reinforcements once the beachhead was established.
		The 1st and 3d Rangers were to spearhead the assault by infiltrating the German lines and seizing and holding Cisterna until the 4th Rangers and 15th Infantry, 3d Division, arrived via the Conca-Cisterna Road.
		The 45th Division was to move beyond Carano on the left as far as the Campoleone-Cisterna railroad, while the 36th Infantry Division exploited the expected breakthrough.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/anzio/72-19.htm (7326 words)

	Anzio, Italy, 1944
		Attempts by the 3rd Infantry Division and 4th Ranger Battalion to extricate their brothers failed in the face of impenetrable German defenses.
		The British 1st Division was shattered and had to be augmented by the British 56th Infantry Division and CCA of the American 1st armored Division.
		The allies used the respite to relieve the British 56th Division with the 5th British Division, the U.S. 34th Division relieved the exhausted 3rd Division.
	amh.freehosting.net /anzio.html (1740 words)

	British 1st Armoured Division - Definition, explanation
		The British 1st Armoured Division is an armored division of the British Army.
		It was reformed by the redesignation of the British 1st Infantry Division, and has been stationed in Germany ever since as part of the British forces committed to NATO.
		The headquarters of the division was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990 to command British land forces.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/br/british_1st_armoured_division.php (584 words)

	Darby's Rangers Setback. Protracted Anzio invasion proves costly to Allies; Rapido helps Germans.
		British General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was designated to take active command in the Mediterranean, with one key responsibility to push the German armies rapidly up the Italian peninsula.
		The U.S. 3rd Division was forced back, the British 1st Division took heavy losses and an attempt by the newly arrived (in full strength) U.S. 1st Armored Division's tanks to swing around the front toward Rome became bogged down in soft, wet earth.
		With the 1st Armored and the 45th Infantry Divisions leading the waves, General Lucas' VI Corps counterattacked.
	www.daileyint.com /seawar/seawar9.htm (14617 words)

	1st Canadian Infantry Division - www.canadiansoldiers.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the 1st Brigade were The Royal Canadian Regiment, The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment from eastern Ontario, and Toronto's 48th Highlanders under Brigadier Howard Graham, a lawyer, Militia stalwart, and former Hasty P's officer.
		While part of the 1st Division loosened the enemy's grip on this town, the 3rd Brigade, temporarily under the command of the British 78th Infantry Division, assisted that formation in the Dittaino Valley.
		The Division passed from XXX Corps to XIII Corps on 10 Aug, and moved to a concentration area in the rear on 11-13 Aug, relieved of operational responsibilities.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=1st_Canadian_Infantry_Division (3338 words)

	Anzio Campaign
		The 1st and 3d Rangers were to spearhead the assault by infiltrating the German lines and seizing and holding Cisterna until the 4th Rangers and 15th Infantry, 3d Division, arrived via the Conca-Cisterna Road.
		Even though the 7th and 15th Infantry regiments and the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion often were hard pressed and suffered heavy losses between 1 and 4 March at the hands of the 715th and the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Divisions, all three units held their positions and beat back successive enemy assaults.
		The 45th Division was to move beyond Carano on the left as far as the Campoleone-Cisterna railroad, while the 36th Infantry Division exploited the expected breakthrough.
	www.45thdivision.org /CampaignsBattles/anzio.htm (7058 words)

	1st Infantry Division: History (Desert Storm) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Division continued to rehearse its mission to penetrate Iraqi defenses and destroy the Republican Guard in its zone.
		The British 1st Armored Division was allowed to advance and pass through after elements secured a beachhead.
		Continuing its attack, the Division collided with the Tawakalna Division Republican Guard and the 37th Brigade of the 12th Iraqi Tank Division.
	www.1id.army.mil /1id/history/Desert_Storm.htm (426 words)

	1st Battalion 22nd Infantry Battles & History
		The 22nd Infantry was assigned on 24 March 1923 to the 4th Division [later redesignated as the 4th Infantry Division].
		1st Battle Group, 22nd Infantry and remained assigned to the 4th Infantry Division (with its organic elements being concurrently constituted and activated).
		It inactivated on August 1984 at Fort Carson, CO and was relieved from its assignment to the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized).
	1-22infantry.org /history/historytitle.htm (1611 words)

	Lone Sentry: The First! The Story of the 1st Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		Huebner, commanding the 1st Infantry Division, lent his cooperation to the preparation of the pamphlet, and basic material was supplied to the editors by his staff.
		Huebner, stating that the action of the division in seizing and holding Caumont so upset the Germans' plans that it was necessary for them to alter their prepared plans and commit their hoarded counter-attack forces.
		During World War II it was the first infantry division to arrive in England, first to invade North Africa, Sicily and France, and first to smash through the supposedly impregnable fortifications of the Siegfried Line.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/1stinfantry (6161 words)

	History for 1st Infantry Division
		The 1st Division swept into Gela, captured the town and threw back a German counterattack which came within 1000 yards of the beach.
		From Gela, the 1st Division powered its way into the heart of Sicily to Troina, which be long remembered as one of the bloodiest battles of the Mediterranean campaign.
		The 1st Division, flanked by the 4th Division and the 29th Division made the initial landings.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,100000\|795980,00.html (2973 words)

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		Meanwhile, the 7th Infantry division lands on Kwajalein and overrun the Japanese in heavy fighting.
		The Chinese 38th and 22nd Divisions, augmented by Merrill's Marauders, attack along the Ledo Road in the Hukawng River Valley in northern Burma.
		The British 56th and US 45th Infantry Divisions are landed at Anzio and move to the front.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4402.htm (2776 words)

	Cantigny First Division Foundation - 1st Infantry Division History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The First Infantry Division, called the Big Red One because of the red numeral "1" on the uniform shoulder patch, was the first regular army division organized in June 1917 to fight in France with the Allied armies.
		As part of the U.S. VII Corps, a potent armored fighting force, the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) was given the important mission to create the breach in Iraqi defensive lines to allow the armored columns to sweep deep behind enemy lines and engage the Republican Guard divisions in flank and rear.
		In January and February, the bulk of the 1st Division re-deployed to its home in Germany As the division returned home, the Big Red One continues its presence in Iraq with the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor, 1st Infantry Division (“the Dreadnaughts”) who were deployed to Iraq in late January and early February 2005.
	www.mccormicktribune.org /firstdivision/history.htm (1502 words)

	U.S. 1st infantry division patches and badges - the Big Red One
		The 'Fighting First' as the division also became known was one of the first of the U.S. divisions to see action in the trenches, forests and villages of WW1 France.
		The 1st infantry division was to see a great deal of action during this long conflict.
		In operation 'Desert Storm' 1st division forces were deployed to Saudi Arabia in preparation for a push over the border into Kuwait.
	www.argoss.co.uk /1st_infantry_division.html (398 words)

	1st Infantry Division - Big Red One
		Nicknamed "The Big Red One," the 1st Division was already seasoned in the North Africa and Sicily campaigns and expected to be transferred from the Mediterranean to a cushy job training green recruits stateside.
		Instead, the haggard, battle-hardy division was sent to England to train for Operation Overload under a new commander, Clarence Huebner.
		The oldest continuously serving division in the U.S. Army, the 1st Infantry Division, called the "Big Red One" because of the red numeral "1" on the uniform shoulder patch, was the first regular army division organized in June 1917 to fight in France with the Allied armies.
	www.baseops.net /militarybooks/1stinfantrydivision.html (1021 words)

	3rd Infantry Division
		The 3rd Infantry Division, reinforced by a Ranger Battalion and Combat Command A of the 2nd Armored Division, was tasked with landing at Licata on the left flank of the Allied invasion.
		Messina was heavily defended by 4 German Divisions and was surrounded by rugged terrain and the Caronie mountains.
		Truscott ordered his Division forward and came within 3 miles of Cisterna when he was ordered by 5th Army command to hold in place as part of a general reorganization and consolidation of the beachhead forces.
	www.history-world.org /3rd_infantry_division.htm (2513 words)

	4th Infantry Division (ArmyStudyGuide.com)
		The 4th Infantry Division held its ground during the Battle of the Bulge; crossed the Rhine, then the Danube, and finally ceased its advance at the Isar River in southern Germany.
		In this program the Division was thoroughly involved in the training, testing, and evaluation of 72 initiatives to include the Divisionâs Capstone Exercise (DCX) I held at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California in April, 2001 and culminating in the DCX II held at Fort Hood in October 2001.
		Division headquarters was established in Tikrit and the Divisionâs brigades were located over a large Area of Operations in the âSunni Triangleâ.
	www.armystudyguide.com /content/Unit_history/Division_history/4th-infantry-division.shtml (1072 words)

	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish
		Unlike the US divisions, the British Reigment was identified only by its name-- not a number-- and the battalions of a regiment did not serve in the same division.
		The British plan was to capture this port and advance north and then turn west to cross the mountains behind the German defenses at Cassino.
		It was primarily consisted of the 3rd Carpthian Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Carpthian Division and the 4th Wolyn Infantry Brigade of the 5th Frontier Infantry Division.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Units/BritishOrg.htm (2095 words)

	194402
		Fierce fighting continues in the Anzio beachhead as the Germans savage the British 1st Infantry Division near Carroceto, 10 miles north of the Mediterranean.
		British, Indian and New Zealand units replace the battle-weary 34th and 36th Infantry divisions as Gen. Harold Alexander prepares a second assault on Cassino and its overlooking Benedictine abbey.
		One of the Russians' finest generals, the 1st Ukrainian Army's Nikolai Vatutin, is ambushed and mortally wounded by Ukrainian guerrillas.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /tenison/297/wwii/194402.htm (3376 words)

	British 1st Infantry Division - Definition, explanation
		The British 1st Infantry Division was first formed in 1809 when the Duke of Wellington formed it, in Portugal, from two British brigades and one Hanoverian brigade of the King's German Legion.
		After British forces withdrew from Egypt the division returned to the UK for a short while in 1955 and 1956.
		In 1960 it was augmented back into a full division and deployed to Germany as part of British I Corps in the British Army of the Rhine.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/br/british_1st_infantry_division.php (324 words)

	Oklahoma DDay - Allied Units Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British and Canadian infantry and armored forces are combined under a single command, the Commonwealth Infantry, under Brigadier Sir Raymond Adams.
		The British 6th Airborne Division was to land Northeast of Caen and secure the left flank of the invasion force by controlling bridges over the Orne Canal and River.
		The British Royal Marine Commandos led the assaults against the key nests of resistence that guarded the landing beaches in the British and Canadian sectors of the invasion.
	www.oklahomadday.com /files/Allies.htm (3609 words)

	HQ 1 Division
		The 1st (UK) Armoured Division is now the only British division to be stationed in Germany, from a peak of 4 divisions during the height of the Cold War, though it is not the only element of the British Forces in Germany.
		The impact of this restructuring was that the British Army of the Rhine was reduced to a strength of 1 Armoured Division with supporting troops.
		That division is the 1st (UK) Armoured Division, which is now assigned as part of the UK's contribution to the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps.
	www.army.mod.uk /1div (485 words)

	First Canadian Infantry Division - Italy
		The 1st Canadian Infantry Division although having been sent to England from Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1939 wasn't thrust into the war until three years later when it arrived in Sicily as part of the British Eighth Army.
		The British Eighth Army commander in his failed attempt to capture Rome decided to bleed the German Army of men and supplies by thrusting the Canadian First Infantry Division and the Canadian First Armoured Regiment at them along the east coast corridor.
		The Canadians using infantry, tanks and artillery were for a long time unable to wrest this objective from the Germans and lost many brave men to the Germans guns.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadas_military/77211 (529 words)

	Stars & Stripes: 1st Infantry Division helped establish U.S. power in WWI
		With that insistence, the 1st Infantry Division was born, and the units of the first division in American history set foot in France during the summer of 1917.
		Pershing had the 1st ID soldiers and others who followed train in a more open type of warfare that emphasized marksmanship, Woods said, and where a rolling artillery barrage would be followed up by waves of infantry.
		The 1st ID went from a smattering of smaller forces into a unit that helped defeat the most powerful army in the world, all within 17 grueling months and at a cost of more than 21,000 lives.
	stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=38717&archive=true (1810 words)

	Pantelleria, 1943
		The British Prime Minister, eager to carry the war to the enemy in Europe itself, argued for bypassing Sicily altogether and mounting a direct attack on the Italian mainland from Tunisia.
		Earlier, in 1941, British leaders had actually considered seizing Pantelleria--eight miles long and five miles wide with sheer cliffs--so as to eliminate it as an enemy base for aircraft and submarines interfering with British air and sea traffic in the Mediterranean.
		With the failure of the second surrender call to meet with a response, the British 1st Infantry Division embarked on the night of June 10-11 to assault and capture Pantelleria.
	www.afa.org /magazine/June2002/0602pantel.asp (2926 words)

	D-Day Fact Sheet, 6 June 1944 Normandy, France: Ike: General Dwight D. Eisenhower Center: Operation Overlord, Omaha ...
		Meanwhile, the nine army divisions (three airborne and six infantry) from the United States, Britain and Canada trained and rehearsed their roles in the carefully choreographed operation.
		The landing by regiments of the 1st and 29th Infantry divisions and Army Rangers on OMAHA Beach was even more difficult than expected.
		In the predawn darkness of June 6, the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were air dropped behind UTAH Beach to secure four causeways across a flooded area directly behind the beach and to protect the invasion's western flank.
	www.kansasheritage.org /abilene/ikedday.html (1062 words)

	Lone Sentry: Photographs, Documents, and Research on World War II
		The Story of the 8th Armored Division ◊ The 9th: The Story of the 9th Armored Division ◊ Terrify and Destroy: The Story of the 10th Armored Division ◊ The Story of the 11th Armored Division: Thunderbolt ◊ Speed is the Password: The Story of the 12th Armored Division
		We Are Proud: History of Co. 'C' 260th Infantry - "We Are Proud: History of Co. 'C' 260th Infantry, Shelby to Linz" is a short, informal remembrance booklet prepared by 260th Infantry Regiment, part of the 65th Infantry Division.
		History, 102d Infantry Division, USAR - A short pocket history printed by the division in the late 1950s or early 1960s.
	www.lonesentry.com (1861 words)

	GI Intelligence Dept.
		Normandy 44 Reenactment Association - Ranger and WAC group based in the UK 4th Infantry Division - UK 6th Cav.
		• 80th Division, AEF - WW1 reenacting unit that I'm a member of.
		• 29th Infantry Division - Shirts and More for the WW2 reenacting unit that I'm a member of.
	www.hardscrabblefarm.com /ww2/links.htm (1497 words)

	CNN.com - Special Reports
		1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division
		1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division
		Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 4th Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division
	cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties (5771 words)

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