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	After Action Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Eventually the British forced out the dismounted cavalry and jagers of their opponents and scattered most of them to the four winds, a solitary 7.7cm battery and two squadrons of cavalry was all that remained of von der Marwitz's cavalry corps.
		Unfortunately for the 54 Reserve Division the British managed to slip the 2nd battalion Worcesteshire Regt in before they could take the woods although that too was eventually blown away by artillery fire finally allowing the 54th Division reservists to take their objective.
		The units of II Cavalry Korps and 8th Divn are virtually destroyed in their assaults on the British center as judicious manouvering of the batteries of the Royal Artillery and the rapid rifle fire of the British 3rd Division defeat every assault.
	pages.zdnet.com /sfclarke/id19.html (6770 words)

	HQ 5 Division
		Division is responsible for the training, deployment and administration of Army units in the West Midlands, Wales and the South West.
		As a Regional Division, it is one of the Army’s key formations, helping to deliver military capability to the Government and the British people.
		Division does not deploy as a complete formation, it is central to ensuring that all the assets are in place for its thousands of soldiers who do deploy, either as individuals or as formed units.
	www.army.mod.uk /5div (400 words)

	T2K Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		British 1st and 2nd Armoured Divisions transferred to southern Germant to battle the Italian V Corps in the Munich area.
		British 3rd Armoured Division is withdrawn from combat for rest and refit, joined with the 7th British Field Force and renamed the 3rd Mechanised Division.
		British 2nd Armoured Division returns to the UK with the 5th Mechanised Division and is renamed the East (2nd Armoured) Division.
	www.physics.ucf.edu /~bar/t2ktime.html (13000 words)

	Chapter 7. Rock. History of the AFS, 1920-1955. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Two days later B was relieved of its 5th Division posts by A Platoon, and the cars went to a camp 10 miles south of Foggia to wait for the rest of the Indian Division to arrive.
		An attempt to increase the 78th Division bridgehead across the Trigno on 27/28 October failed, and because of the weather the attack was postponed.
		During this period, the exhausted 78th Division (said to have sustained over 7,000 casualties in less than 6 months of the campaign) was sent inland to hold the positions in the mountains, and 13 Corps was brought to the coast to bolster the attack.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/specoll/AFS/library/Rock/R10.html (19664 words)

	Military History Online
		Under the revised scheme, the British 1st Airborne Division was to drop by parachute and glider in the area south of Syracuse to seize important tactical targets, while four battalions of the U.S. 82d Airborne Division dropped in the area behind Gela.
		British XIII Corps was on the north end of the British landing zone, and was to put ashore 5th Division near Cassibile and 50th Division near Avola.
		One of the division's regiments was to land east of the mouth of the Acate River and drive north to capture Biscari and its airfield, as well as Ponte Dirillo, where the coastal highway crosses the Acate.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/husky/plans.aspx (7344 words)

	Anzio, Italy, 1944
		The attackers came in the form of the Herman Georing Panzer Division, and the 4th Parachute Division.The British took over 1,400 casualties that day alone, but they stood fast, and then finally under powerful assaults were forced to retreat.
		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)

	88th Infantry Division
		The 88th Infantry Division was activated at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma on 15 July 1942 under the command of Major General John E. Sloan.
		Under the command of the Assistant Division Commander, Brigadier General Paul W. Kendall, an advance party departed for Italy on 26 December, and went into the line as observers on 4-5 January, attached to 3rd, 34th, and 36th Infantry Divisions, and the British 5th, 46th, and 56th Divisions.
		The Division relieved the 85th Infantry Division in its sector on 22 November, and was in turn itself relieved for general rehabilitation on 13 January.
	www.88infdiv.org /wwii.html (2774 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		A Japanese submarine sunk the British merchantman Nancy Moller.
		The British 14th Army is augmented by the formation of the 33rd Corps being formed at Dimapur (north of Imphal).
	www.bartcop.com /arc4403.htm (2415 words)

	Battle of Sabugal 3 April 1811
		Secondly, the leading brigade of the Light Division became separated from the rest of the division and was, for the best part of the battle, without any support at all.
		and a British squadron of the 16
		The total losses for this Division were only 25 and many of these casualties must of taken place during the pursuit of the retreating enemy.
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/virtual/c_sabugal.html (3056 words)

	My Paper
		The Battle of Vimy Ridge, comprised of all four Divisions of the Canadian Corps and one British Division, used extensive planning and thorough training to take the ridge; many Canadians today see this battle as the birth of their nation.
		It involved the British Third Army, under General Sir Edmund H. Allenby taking Arras and drawing the Germans away from Aisne, a town French troops were to attack one week later.
		British General Julian Byng was the leader of the British First Army with Major General Arthur Currie as Chief Canadian Lieutenant.
	vimyridge.tripod.com /paper.htm (1469 words)

	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 British 56th Division was relieved by the British 5th Division while Commando, Ranger, and parachute units were sent to England to begin preparations for OVERLORD.
		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)

	Today In WW II History - Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The British 123rd Indian Brigade is attacked by the Japanese, north of Rathedaung in Arakan, and is compelled to retreat.
		The 10th Panzer Division guards the American forces at Gafsa and the 21st Panzer Division is in general reserve at Gabes.
		British General Alexander, Supreme Allied Command in the Mediterranean, agrees to the request of New Zealand Corps commander General Freyberg to halt attacks on Cassino because of heavy losses, unless substantial progress is achieved within the next two days.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/12 (9487 words)

	The Battle for Termoli, Oct 3, 1943, American Field Service
		Two days later B was relieved of its 5th Division posts by A Platoon, and the cars went to a camp l0 miles south of Foggia to wait for the rest of the Indian Division to arrive.
		When A Platoon took over the 5th Division posts on 14 October the bulk of its cars went to 141 MDS at Segezia and 6 to 158 ADS at S. Croce-both groups evacuating to Foggia, to either 164 MDS (from which 3 attached AFS cars evacuated to Barletta) or 7 CCS.
		We were serving with the 78th British Division -- the "Battleaxe Division" because its uniform patch was a yellow battleaxe on a fl background.
	www.warlinks.com /pages/afs.html (5533 words)

	Pozieres
		The morning of the 21st July 1916 saw the 1st Australian Division take over the position in fl watch alley and part the OG1 Line on the southern outskirts of the town.
		The Battle of Pozieres Ridge began in earnest on the 23 July 1916 with the British 30th Division attacking Guillemont, British 3rd Division attacking Delville Wood, The British 5th Division made an attack High Wood with the British 51st Division to complete the capture of High wood.
		The 19th British division attacked at 12.30 am and were withdrawn between 3 and 4 am with no success.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~pasu/pozieres.htm (692 words)

	William Bernard Whitmore - British 5th Division - Divisional Diary 1916-1918
		William Bernard Whitmore - British 5th Division - Divisional Diary 1916-1918
		This page describes the engagements that the 5th Division of the British Army were engaged in during William's tour of duty.
		Taken from The British Army in the Great War, and The Regimental Warpath.
	www.birminghampals.co.uk /engagements.htm (209 words)

	HyperWar: The Campaign in Norway [Chapter XI]
		The British Government had therefore strongly encouraged General Paget's attempt to evacuate the Norwegian forces from the Aandalsnes area to fight elsewhere; as one Minister put it, the retention of a Norwegian army in being would have great political value.
		The second French Light Division was now stationed in the Clyde, where it was joined by the Chasseurs Alpins returned from Namsos, whom it was intended to refit and send on again to the north.
		A third French Light Division remained poised at Brest awaiting transport, and on 1st May it was agreed in principle that the British 5th Division might also be brought from France as reinforcement.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Norway/UK-NWE-Norway-11.html (5857 words)

	Shraga Iser Kogel Memorial
		After the break of WW2, in early 1940 the "Jewish Agency" in Palestian (the "Jewish Sochnoot") issued a call to local Jews to participate in WW2 efforts against the Germans in the Middle East.
		My father's most significant trauma was to realize [in late June 1944] that all his family [Father, Mother, and 9 siblings] perished [most probably in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration death camp, just across the border in Poland].
		Indian Division diary "...After the defeat [in Asmara on 01 April 1941], the Italians withdrew their remnants from Eritrea to Amba Alagi and Gondar in Abyssinia.
	www.geocities.com /roli_barkk (1486 words)

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