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	25th Infantry Division Association: The Units
		In 1972 the 2nd Battalion was inactivated and in 1987 the 1st Battalion was inactivated.
		From 1987-1995 the 1st Battalion (Mech) was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division in Korea.
		On 16 October 1989 the 1st Battalion was reactivated as a parachute infantry battalion and assigned to the 6th Infantry Division with station at Fort Richardson, Alaska On 16 April 1998 the 1st Battalion was reassigned to the 172nd Infantry Brigade.
	www.25thida.com /unitsinfantry.html (10163 words)

	South African Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The South African Army is the army of South Africa.
		The South African military evolved within the tradition of frontier warfare fought by popular militias and small irregular commando forces, reinforced by the Afrikaners' historical distrust of large standing armies.
		The South African 2nd Infantry Division also took part in a number of actions in North Africa during 1942, but on 21 June 1942 two complete infantry brigades of the division as well as most of the supporting units were captured at the fall of Tobruk.
	south-african-army.kiwiki.homeip.net (1820 words)

	Chronicle of the 85th Infantry Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Division was formally committed to action as a unit in the Minturno-Castelforte area on 10 April 1944, north of the Garigliano River, facing the Gustav Line, and held defensive positions for a month.
		The division was aligned west of Florence and assigned a long stretch of the river for observation and containment of enemy forces.
		The division was relieved by the 6th South African Division on 27-28 August and bivouacked south of Florence for training and recuperation.
	yourpage.blazenet.net /cjheiser/85chronicle.htm (906 words)

	Chronicle of the 85th Infantry Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Custer Division was committed to the fall campaign in September 1944 and sent to attack the mountain defenses of the Gothic Line (or "Green Line") at the Il Giogo Pass beginning on 13 September 1944.
		The 399th Infantry was immediately sent to the area to reinforce the 92nd Division, followed soon after by the 337th Infantry, where the Custermen recovered lost equipment and territory as the enemy forces retreated.
		After establishing a bridgehead, the infantry regiments were mounted into task forces that drove on Verona and the city was taken on April 26 by a combined force from the 1st battalion, 339th Infantry and elements of the 1st Armored Division.
	yourpage.blazenet.net /cjheiser/85chronicle-2.htm (1449 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)

	South African Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The most costly action that the South African forces on the Western Front fought in was the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916 - of the 3,000 men from the brigade who entered the wood, only 768 emerged unscathed.
		The South African 6th Armoured Division fought in numerous actions in Italy from 1944 to 1945.
		Following the declaration of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, the "Royal" title was dropped from the names of army regiments like the Natal Carbineers, and the Crown removed from regimental badges.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_African_Army (1879 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal - The South Africans at Delville Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A sympathetic South African officer had given the fellow a stiff dose of rum, and a missing arm held no terrors for the wounded man who was happily looking for a casualty clearing station.
		The horrific artillery bombardment, commenced on 24 June and recalled by Mr Wepener, was the prelude to this disastrous offensive in the Somme valley.
		Maj Edward Burges, second-in-command of the 1st South African Infantry Regiment and commander of D Company, pushed northwards and managed to effect a junction with the 76th Brigade (3rd Division), which was similarly advancing on Longueval.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol072iu.html (11563 words)

	9th Infantry WWII 2nd Page
		The 9th Infantry Division saw its first combat in the North African invasion, 8 November 1942, when its elements landed at Algiers, Safi, and Port Lyautey.
		With the collapse of French resistance, 11 November 1942, the Division patrolled the Spanish Moroccan border.
		The 9th Infantry Division (Motorized), "Old Reliables" or "Octofoil," was headquartered at Fort Lewis, Washington, and served as an experimental testbed to evaluate new operational concepts and equipment.
	www.mrfa2.org /9thWWIIa.htm (720 words)

	1st South Carolina
		The President immediately issued a call for volunteers, consisting of 125,000, and South Carolina’s quota was found at one regiment of infantry, one battalion of infantry, and one battery of heavy artillery.
		The 1st S.C.V.I. having worked hard and drilled well at Camp Thomas, and being eager for the fray, were very much gratified when an order came detaching them from the 1st Army Corps and ordering them to Jacksonville, Fla., to join the 7th Army Corps, under Gen.
		Remained in camp at Columbia, South Carolina, until June 6th, 1898, when it proceeded to Camp Thomas, Georgia, with regiment, arriving June 7th, 1898, and was attached to the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Army Corps.
	www.spanamwar.com /1stsouthcarolina.html (4274 words)

	South African History South Africa History
		From the Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre, at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.
		Has information on an Aug. 1997 South African Defence Force Symposium and Reunion, most of the text of a 1979 report by a Conservative Party (UK) election observer team to the first one man one vote elections, Ministry of Information pamphlets published during the civil war, articles on the wars in Angola and Namibia.
		The South African historical maps include the former homelands and an 1885 map of South Africa.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsahistory.html (8603 words)

	1st Division (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1st Division took as its sign the tip of the spear head sign I Corps (the only extant corps before 1939).
		The sign combined the triangle of the 1st Infantry Division, and the charging rhinoceros of the WW2 1st Armoured Division.
		1st Division, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
	www.regiments.org /formations/uk-div/div01inf.htm (178 words)

	1st INFANTRY DIVISION
		The "Red One" Division achieved a number of firsts in World War I--to arrive in France, to be at the front, to fire at enemy, to raid, to suffer casualties and to be cited in general orders.
		Thus the insignia is a large, red numeral "one" on an olive drab shield.
		1 det, Hq and Hq Bty, 1st Div Arty
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/eto-ob/1ID-eto-ob.htm (641 words)

	Second World War Books Review
		Their entry for 7th Armored Division, for example, includes about a dozen TOE tables and amounts to about eighteen pages all told including the narrative history they use to tie everything together.
		The problem was that the two regiments involved had been sent out without their own higher command, the 1st Tank Brigade.
		Logically it should have been permanently under the command of the 4th Indian Division whose troops the Matildas would be aiding, but logic took second place to the influence of the cavalry lobby.
	stonebooks.com /archives/020224.shtml (1890 words)

	History - South Carolina Troops
		Attached to District of Beaufort, S.C., 10th Army Corps, Dept. of the South, to January, 1864.
		Regiment consolidated with 3rd South Carolina Infantry to form 21st U.S. Colored Troops March 14, 1864.
		Transferred to 3rd and 4th South Carolina Infantry.
	www.civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unsctr.htm (417 words)

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