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	British 5th Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 5th Division was a permanently established Regular Army division that was amongst the first to be sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
		Between February and April 1915 the brigade temporarily moved to the 28th Division, swapping with the 84th Brigade.
		In December 1915 the brigade moved to the 32nd Division, being replaced by the 95th Brigade.
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	5th Infantry Division, Normandy
		That night, as the and Infantry reorganized, the 10th Infantry relieved the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division and the 1st Bn, 10th moved into division reserve behind the 2nd Regiment.
		Of such grim, tough stuff were the front line troops of the division made- the 2nd, 10th and 11th Regiments, the 5th Recon troopers and combat engineers, the artillery forward observers, tankers, tank-destroyers, communications and aid-men.
		The 11th reverted to 5th Division control on the 28th and moved over behind the 10th, as the 10th attacked Hill 183 in the lace of bitter resistance by enemy infantry and artillery.
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	Army Lineage Series: Infantry Part I: Regular Army
		Cavalry was eliminated, and eight infantry regiments and one rifle regiment arose from the ruins of the forty-six and four in existence.
		Infantry officers pointed out that when sickness and desertion occurred; these little companies were much too small to do their duty in the Indian country where 180 out of 250 of them were stationed in the 1870's.
		Infantry regiments and machine gun battalions together totaled 462 in World War I, a figure which is dwarfed by the 1,700-plus infantry units that served in the Civil War.
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	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
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	Society of the First Infantry Division - The Big Red One - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the rest of the Division arrived, it was separated into five base areas: Division Headquarters and the Support Command were at Di An; the 1st Brigade, at Phuoc Vinh; the 2nd Brigade at Bien Hoa; the 3rd Brigade at Lai Khe; and Division Artillery at Phu Loi.
		The 1st Infantry Division assumed authority for command and control of Task Force Eagle in a transfer of authority ceremony on Eagle Base on Nov. 10, 1996.
		The Division's initial mission was to provide a covering force for the 1st Armored Division units returning to Germany, and then to continue to implement the military aspects of the General Framework Agreement for Peace.
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	Second World War Books: Review
		The 88th Infantry Division would mobilize, organize, train, and fight without unduly militarizing the soldiers from which it was made—a genuinely American response to the crisis of war.
		In the all-draftee division, 197 cadre officers came from the Regular Army and 12 percent of its manpower came from its "parent" division.
		The 88th's parent was the 9th Infantry Division, and the new division was fortunate.
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	Allied_invasion_of_Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The British 5th Infantry Division would land in the north of the 'toe' while 1st Canadian Infantry Division would land in the south.
		The British 1st Airborne Division would be landed by sea near the port of Taranto in the 'heel' of Italy (Operation Slapstick).
		Approximately eight German divisions were positioned to cover possible landing sites, including the Hermann Goering, the 26th and 16th Panzer, the 15th and 29th Panzergrenadier and the 1st and 2nd Parachute.
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	Combat Chronicle- 1st Infantry Division
		Thereupon, the Division attacked and again breached the Siegfried Line, fought across the Roer, 23 February 1945, and drove on to the Rhine, crossing at the Remagen bridgehead, 15-16 March 1945.
		The Division broke out of the bridgehead, took part in the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket, captured Paderborn, pushed through the Harz Mountains, and was in Czechoslovakia, at Kinsperk, Sangerberg, and Mnichov, when the war in Europe ended.
		On 6 November 1943, for example, the 1st Infantry Division was assigned to the VII Corps which was itself assigned to First Army; on 1 August 1944, the 12th Army.
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	Vimy_Ridge
		After less than two hours, three of the four Canadian divisions had taken their objectives; the fourth division, however, was caught by machine gun nests on the highest point of the Ridge known as Hill 145.
		The attack and objective had only limited grand-strategic significance, and as the simultaneous British and Australian attack to the south of the Ridge was unsuccessful, very little was actually achieved after the Canadian victory.
		However, in a war in which, battle after battle, thousands died for gains measured in yards, it had tremendous tactical importance, both in relieving the city of Arras from immediate threat of attack, as well as proving that the war could be made to move once again, after years of stalemate.
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	Martin Edward Meakin Herford -- Herford 325 (7364): 601 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ
		After two years in the western desert in north Africa he rose to command a motor ambulance convoy until the victory at Alamein, when he was posted to Sicily and took part in the Italian Campaign.
		He negotiated to establish a British military hospital in an old barracks near Arnhem, which made an enormous difference to the treatment of the wounded.
		After a number of weeks when the serious cases had been evacuated, he decided his task was done and escaped by swimming the Rhine to bring the names of all the wounded British to the allies.
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	ALLIED INVASION OF ITALY ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
		Popular support in Italy for the war was declining, and he believed that an invasion would remove Italy from the war, thus removing the influence of the ''Regia_Marina'' in the Mediterranean_Sea and opening it to Allied traffic.
		The first troops ashore on the mainland were the British_Eighth_Army, which included British and Canadian troops, under General Bernard_Montgomery.
		It would consist of the US_Fifth_Army under General Mark_W._Clark, comprising the U.S. Sixth Corps, the British 10th Corps and the US 82nd Airborne Division, a total of about nine divisions.
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	WWII Page
		He was a member of the 3rd Armored Division, the Spearhead that drove into the heart of Nazi Germany.
		When it was all over, the division's artillery officer reported that 490,021 rounds of 105mm ammunition had been fired between D-Day and VE Day, more than any other division in the European theater.
		Later, my grandfather was part of the 106th Infantry Division, proudly known as the Golden Lions.
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	ipedia.com: Battle of Vimy Ridge Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The French and British had suffered thousands of casualties in previous attempts to take the Ridge; the French alone lost 150 000 men at Vimy Ridge in 1915.
		The ridge, streching from the town of Vimy to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, was a crucial point that allowed the Germans to control much of the surrounding territory.
		At dawn on Easter Monday, April 9, the 30 000-strong Canadian Corps began the attack, using a creeping barrage, a new technique whereby soldiers walked across No-Man's Land just behind a continuous line of shells (an improvement over previous battles, in which both sides had often shelled their own troops).
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	5th Maryland Infantry Regiment History
		The 175th Infantry Regiment is a component of the 3rd Brigade, 29th Infantry Division (Light).
		Mordecai Gist, the Father of the Maryland National Guard, on December 3, 1774 organized The Baltimore Independent Cadets, a company of 60 men--"For the better security of our lives, liberties, and properties and was composed of gentlemen of honour [sic], family, and fortune." Gist was a young Baltimore merchant.
		On December 10, 1776 Marylanders, responding to a call from the Continental Congress, formed the Maryland 5th Infantry, the "Dandy Fifth", as part of the "Maryland Line" and established the Maryland Militia as one of the oldest regiments in the nation.
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	Encyclopedia: British Divisions in WWII
		List of military divisions — List of British divisions in WWII
		This page is a list of British divisions that fought in World War II.
		It is intended to provide a central point to access information about British formations of that size.
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	Dad's War: Finding and Telling Your Father's World War II Story, by Wesley Johnston
		Norm Brunette's pages on his Dad Raymond Brunette's experiences in 10th Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division (Europe): This site also includes useful pages on the 4th Armored Division in general.
		The Walter Washington Train Memorial Page : Linda Frisina's page on her Dad's experiences with 96th Division, 382 Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Company F, wounded in combat at Leyte in the Philippines in October 1944.
		Quentin Aanenson's "A Fighter Pilot's Story": This is the man to whom we all owe a great debt, since without his very moving video history of his experiences, shown on Public Broadcasting, I may never have begun my own quest that led to these Dad's War web pages.
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	Military History Network Sitemap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		US 34th Infantry Division • British Element Trieste Force
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		88powcmnd.html - 88th Infantry Division • POW Command
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