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...quered Italy - December 1943-April, 1944 9. Artillerymen 10. Personalities and Asides 11. Mountain Fighting 12. Dive Bombers 13. The Fabulous Infantry 14. Light Bombers 15. LST Cruise 16. AnzioNettuno 17. Beachhead Fighters 18. Supply Line 19. Hospital Ship 20. Farewell to Italy England - April-May, 1944 21. This England 22. Brass Hats 23. The Flying W...

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... 14112. DIVE BOMBERS 15613. THE FABULOUS INFANTRY 18114. LIGHT BOMBERS ... ...t a lump to my throat to hear them.Everyone by now knows how I feel about the infantry. I’m a rabid one-manmovement bent on tracking down and stamping... ...three balloons were left in the entire fleet. The little subchasers and the infantry-carrying assault craft woulddisappear completely into the wave-... ...tely hidden. Then underthis covering screen our tank-carrying barges and more infantry boats made forthe shore. Before long we could see the tanks l... ...ountry is called D-day,and the time it hits the beach is H-hour. In the Third Infantry Division forwhich I was a very biased rooter, H-hour had been s... ...on the beachesbut got immediately on its way to the front. We had stevedoring regimentsmade up of New York professional stevedores. We had naval capta... ...ee water points set up constantly for each division—one for each of the three regiments—and usually a couple of extra ones.When a water point was foun... ...took out after the evacuating enemy. Before another twenty-four hours, thetwo regiments would be twenty miles ahead of us and in contact with theenemy... ...etimes all thecompanies were working in separate places with various infantry regiments. Atother times, in mountainous country, when the whole divisio...

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...This volume is a collection of articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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... 11: Colonel Thomas Gardner’s Regiment Chapter 12: Colonel Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment Chapter 13: General William Heath’s and Colonel John Greaton’s Regiments Chapter 14: Colonel Ebenezer Learned’s Regiment Chapter 15: Colonel Paul Dudley’s Regiment Chapter 16: Colonel John Mansfield’s Regiment Chapter 17: Colonel Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment Chapter 18: Colonel John Nixo...

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...………………………………………………197 General William Heath’s and Colonel John Greaton’s Regiments 2Chapter Fourteen: .…...………………………………………... ...………………………………………………...312 General John Thomas’s and Colonel John Bailey’s RegimentsChapter Twenty: .…...………………………………………………………………………….328 Colonel ... ...…………………………………………… 344 General Artemas Ward’s and Colonel Jonathan Ward’s RegimentsChapter Twenty Two: .…...…………………………………………………………………….372 Colone... ...Gardner, M. D., giving theorganization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of theRevolution. They were published... ...1775, and served throughout the year. He was Surgeon of the 5th Continental Infantry Regiment,from January 1, to December 31. 1776, and was Captain of... ...giment, and September 1, 1778, becameCaptain in Colonel John Jacobs’s Light Infantry Regiment, the service ending November 16,1779. ... ...nt part in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. It was oneof the three infantry regiments from Massachusetts in that memorable conflict. Frothing... ...ent. April 20. 1778,he was engaged as Captain in Colonel John Jacob’s Light Infantry Regiment, and served until theexpiration of his term of service, ... ...t and in the following year heldthe same rank in Colonel John Jacob’s Light Infantry Regiment, for three months and fifteendays. March 25, 1779, he en...

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...h general Allenby, the EEF successfully executed one of the most decisive engagements in any theater of World War I. Ably employing and synchronizing infantry, cavalry, and air forces, Allenby provided future military professionals and historians with a shining illustration of the efficacy of combined arms operations. Unfortunately, the true lessons of Allenby’s campaign w...

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...most decisive engage-ments in any theater of World War I. Ably employing andsynchronizing infantry, cavalry, and air forces, Allenby pro-vided future ... ...the deserts of Palestine less than a quartercentury before.1 There, on 19 September 1918, infantry,cavalry, and air forces under command of Gen Edmund... ... cable to the CIGS, he noted: “My cavalry are hardlyfaster in the desert than the Turkish infantry, who are fineactive men in good condition.”13 ... ...eld in WorldWar I, officers found that aircraft could provide much moreassistance for the infantrymen than simple reconnais-sance. Aerial intelligence... ...tiative. Allenby knewthat the cavalry, employed in conjunction with the com-bined arms of infantry and artillery, could achieve decisiveresults in a t... ...ne British division. In all he would dispatch “two infantrydivisions, . . . nine yeomanry regiments, five and a halfsiege batteries, twenty-three infa... ... ma-chine gun companies: upwards of 60,000 officers andmen.”54 Partially trained Indian regiments constituted themajority of the EEF’s replacements ... ...ons, pt. 2, 421. Darrah’s numbers aresomewhat different, noting that only six Yeomany regiments were trans-ferred; see Darrah, “Palestine Campaign...

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.......................33 The non-classification of the bullets for antiwar ...................33 The principal ballistic data and construction of the infantry platoon’s armament.......34 Non-Assignment 1, Meeting 2...........................35 Knowledge about the machine gun – small .....................35 The description of the principal components .......................

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....................... 33 The principal ballistic data and construction of the infantry platoon’s armament............................ 34 Non-Assignm... ..................................................96 Building fortification for infantry battles.......................................................... ... 11 - The Ground troupes: the army (infantry, rusted tanks, special units, engineer’s troupes, chemica... ...c guards and organizations for military preparation; thedisorganization of the infantry’s subunit, the group’s disorganization. ... ... disorganization. 13 The infantry group is not the smallest fighting subunit, its fighting actio... ... by the minister of the army. The flag is not given to divisions, brigades, regiments, battalion that are unsubordinatedto the military commandment...

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...a [i]Illustration on front cover - First division, regulars – Infantry divisions – Enlist forinfantry, cavalry, field artillery. Photogrp... ...eproduction file 9th Aero Squadron –Fokker D. VII.jpg] .2 34th Infantry Division personnel forming to outline the Division’s insignia. ... ...exico. Illustration by Wikipedia [reproduction file 180818-34th Infantry Division Animated Crest.jpg].3 Navy PT-9gets a tryout. Photograph... ...my. On the other side, sling archers are not very effective againstarmored infantry. To overcome this shortfall, rulers poured money into outfittingsp... ...formal military known as the strieltsy.12 The strieltsy comprised fourteen regiments withtheir own distinctive uniforms and designators. Regiments wer... ...l military by raisingmilitias. Because of their reservist nature, colonial infantry militiamen equippedthemselves. Their uniforms might range from buc... ...ivilWar, the military was small. There was very little need to distinguish regiments outsidetheir branch (i.e., dragoons, infantry, engineers, etc.). ... ...anumeric catalog of regimental lineages of U.S. Army armor and cavalry regiments. Information addresses the unit insignia, campaign participation,... ...ors of U.S. Army infantry units. John K. Mahon compiles this volume of regiments and battalions assigned to the national guard, regular and re...

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...ld, Maine Journal, excerpted from a letter from Sgt. HowardMcFarlane, 43rd Infantry. Quoted in Wolff, 305. The soldiers who wrote suchletters were inv... ...rounding Filipinos. 666US infantry and Battery D, 6th Artillery, on outpost duty near San Fernando, P... ...ce, May 1899. 668Third US Infantry marching on to San Isidro, May 1899; two Chinese litter-bearersemp... ...anatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, 18 miles (30 km)to the north.Company I, 3rd Infantry Regiment, at Baliwag, Bulacan Province. Photo was taken onSept. 5,... ...iwag, Bulacan Province. Photo was taken onSept. 5, 1899.Company H, 22nd US Infantry Regiment, in the trenches of the south lines of Manila,April 15, 1... ... Progress one day was just three miles, and Lawton’s col-for their regiments. umn was strung out for miles. His plan... ...listed, on having While the Scouts were across the river, the two regiments had among you so gallant a soldier as James Harrington, ma... ...ext day, the tail of the column marched some sevenfrom San Isidro. Several regiments claim this photo depicts their troops. The miles downriver to... ...it over again. There is an ex-both the 1st North Dakota and the 2nd Oregon regiments - citement about it, there is a longing for it again th...

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...en. T. W. Sweeny (who was thencommanding officer of the 16th United States Infantry) as Secretary ofWar. The other Cabinet port-folios were handed out... .... Beard, Lieut. JohnMatthewson, and Ensign James C'oad.At Windsor-Hamilton Infantry Company; Capt. Henry E. Irving, Lieut. 19... ...t. 19Robert Grant, and Ensign J. J. Hebden.London Infantry Company; Capt. Arch. Macpherson. Lieut. Edward W.Griffith, and Ens... ...n. Lieut. Edward W.Griffith, and Ensign George Ellis.At Sandwich-Port Hope Infantry Company; Capt. A. T. H. Williams,Lieut. James F. McLeod, and Ensig... ...y-Capt. Robert McCrum.Carleton Place Rifle Company-Capt. James Poole.Perth Infantry Company-Capt. Thomas Scott.Almonte Infantry Company-Capt. James D.... ...oats struck theshore, the color-bearers of Col. Owen Starr's 17th Kentucky Regimentsprang on to Canadian soil and unfurled their Irish flags amid terr... ...elyenrolled a Home Guard to defend the city in the absence of thevolunteer regiments, and faithfully and well was that duty performed.The same intense... ...'Neil. but the presence of the United States gunboat "Michigan" andseveral regiments and batteries of American regular troops, preventedthe movement. ... ...issisquoi County, in Quebec, the invadersgathered in groups, companies and regiments, awaiting their arms andorders to move. Finally a sufficient forc...

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...son NemesioBartolomeFranciscoT. Ponce Strength800 [1]:19 50 infantry 15 sailors 1 officer 1 cutter[1]:52 3 p... ...dquarters in Manila. The captain general inManila immediately ordered that Infantry Captain Jesus Roldan, two lieutenants, anda hundred soldiers to sa... ... 921University of the Philippines Manila June 18, 1908US 39th Infantry Band parading around the city. ... ...egiment movedaround Baliwag but were unable to prevent the Philippine 51st Infantry. The 7th TankRegiment was commanded by Colonel Seinosuke Sonoda ( ... ...942, leading the assault on Mt. Samat. Two of the United StatesArmy’s 31st Infantry Regiment’s 37mm ( 1.46 inch ) anti-tank guns opened fire on ... ...alumpit and the Baliuag-Plaridel area. On the 30th he had ordered two tank regimentsand a battalion of infantry to advance from Cabanatuan to the Anga... ...prepared to pull out of Baliuag in accordance with orders.The two infantry regiments and the engineers left in buses around 1400, but the artilleryreg... ...ey of about1,000 of its men, drawn largely from the 12th and 13th Infantry Regiments. Its sector ofthe D-5 line extended from the Magalang-Concepcion ... ...Calumpit and the Baliuag-Plaridel area. On the 30th hehad ordered two tank regiments and a battalion of infantry to advancefrom Cabanatuan to the Anga...

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...ndattrition to maneuver . He is agraduate of West Point; the InfantrySchool's airborne, ranger, andcommander courses ; Com... ... as a corps,maneuver can apply to even the smallest units. An infantrysquad acting independently in difficult terrain could ... ...as a platoon leader and companygroup commander in a mountain infantry battalion. To theextent that he based his operations ... ...notable German panzercommanders in World War II had light infantry or scoutcavalry backgrounds. In small-unit operations, th... ...werless against tanks; hence, itshould be used to combat infantry, which, in turn, ispowerless against it and if not ... ...s a reserve formation during theoffensive. Soviet air force regiments were treated similarly toground force formations . ... ...isions operated permanently assigned mobile base groupsfor their flying regiments. After the reorganization, baseconstruction, operati... ...re made for their subsequentreturn. In this way, divisions and regiments could be mobileand rapidly shifted about the front as required. ... ...t the front as required. The manning levels of Soviet 30-plane regiments werevery low. Regiments, responsible for crew and ...

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... to consider the utility of military flight.In 1910 Capt G. L. Townsend, an infantry officer attendingthe Army Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, took... ...t Leavenworth, took up thistopic in a paper that eventually appeared in the InfantryJournal: “In approaching this subject [aviation] one mustbe prepar... ...ced together a provisional “Ma-neuver Division” from widespread continental regiments anddeployed it to a tent city near San Antonio. Although mostobs... ... to its growing presence. Two contemporary edito-rials that appeared in the Infantry Journal were especiallyscathing. The first essay fretted that th... ... Townsend, “The Use and Effect of Flying Machines on Mili-tary Operations,” Infantry Journal 7 (September 1910): 245. 25. On Maj Edgar Russell’s parti... ...from Flying Machines,” 388. 45. Ibid. 46. “Concerning Aeroplanes for Army,” Infantry Journal 7 (November1910): 461; and “Concerning the Development of...

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...We must learn to depend for success, not on the physical weight of the infantry attack, but on skillful offensive used in com- bination of all a... ...eir wayof war was known as the legion, which like the Greek phalanx,was an infantry force. The legion, however, had the benefit ofbeing subdivided int... ...yed their legions inthe same manner as the Greeks had employed the phalanx.Infantry forces and their auxiliaries closed to contact with theenemy and e... .... This age of war saw the beginning of true combined armswith professional infantry and cavalry forces attempting togain a mobility that would overcom... ... significance continued.15Infantry and cavalry forces were subdivided into regiments.The individual regiments were further broken down allowingflexibi... ...ic situation. The goal was to use a successful combina-tion of cavalry and infantry either to pin or to fend off an op-ponent. Armies used this method... ...new systems. For its assault in Military Region(MR) I, the NVA had six AAA regiments and mobile AAA for thearmored spearheads. The invasion also saw t...

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...ining ground soldiers in basicaircraft recognition.16 To coordinate with airmen, “Infantry would fire flaresor smoke signals indicating their position... ...ing the TAD.102 Due to radio problems TACPswere ordered not to advance forward of infantry regimental headquarters.This essentially limited ground FAC... ...rocedure was usually accomplishedwithout coordinating with friendly artillery and infantry.108 During thePusan perimeter defense, TACs directed 90 per... ...ect air strikes near the front line.Unfortunately, failure to coordinate adequate infantry protection for theseexposed airmen resulted in several deat... ...agreement with General Weyland, FEAFcommander, to provide more Air Force TACPs to infantry battalions incertain instances, Clark let his initiative di... ...earlier developments in the artilleryfield. There, the WWI concept was massing in regiments and brigadeswith a later allocation to direct support. Now...

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...ould be the chief of the Air Service.Mitchell’s subordination to General Menoher, an infantry offi-cer, is often viewed as analogous to the subordinat... ...nd warfare, the doctrine of all nationsrecognizes that the success or failure of the infantry consti-tutes the final test in battle. This is regarded ... ...enlistedman, and accordingly in the relationship that must existbetween them. In the infantry, for example, the basic fightingunit is the individual e... ... nonexistent—these are facts whichenter into the very warp and woof of the fabric of infantry.Long experience of many land battles has demonstrated th... ... broad sense to include the fol-lowers of many trades. He is not called upon, as the infantry-man may be, to follow his officer forward in the charge,... ...ops, whose attitude frequently is that it makesno particular difference to them what regiments or divisions theyare facing. But when this information ... ...nse howevershould consist of machine guns. These are of two kinds: theweapons of the regiments of antiaircraft artillery (which includein each regimen...

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...ove their abilities continuously. Ultimately somewomen had the opportunity to join male regiments and flour-ished once they demonstrated their worth. ... ...n actively joined the fight during World War I as well.Nearly 400 women took up arms in infantry and aviation rolesas early as 1915 and by the time of... ...ry services actively recruited female combatants.5 MariaBochkareva, who enlisted in the infantry prior to the revolu-tion, advised the Russian war min... ...aircraft, Stalin agreed to establish the 122nd Compos-ite Air Group.26 Three all-female regiments comprised the unit:the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 5... ...e 73rd Fighter Regiment of the 6th GuardsAir Division of the Eighth Air Army. All three regiments wereregular military units.33 Litvyak’s name appears... ...sts during breaks in combat operations to prove theabilities of the women to other male regiments.52 Not surpris-ingly, men from other regiments began... ...hostile force.”10The Army and Marine Corps thus chose to continue to restrictwomen from infantry, artillery, armor, and air cavalry units. Thechairman... ...urface ships and in aircraft.16 While President Bush for-bade women from serving in the infantry, artillery, armor units,and all special operations fo... ...ban 87THE WAY BACKWARDwomen from ground combat roles, such as the infantry and field artillery.Center for Military Readiness (CM...

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...s were left to adjust. Thomas H. Greer remembers that “itwas a struggle of infantry, trenches, and artillery; of attack and counterattack;of attrition... ...n otherwords, they were to drive off hostile airplanes and procure for the infantryand artillery information concerning the enemy’s movement.”14 The s... ...time: “During offensives, attack squadrons operate over and infront of the infantry and neutralize the fire of the enemy’s infantry andbarrage batteri... ...y had rough problems; I knew and I lived with them. I lived with the 23d Infantry. . . . So I picked up a lot of information and knowledge and app... ...CAS from all services was a godsend. In one such case, General Walker’s 2d Infantry Division had severalunits trapped by the enemy. The division comma... ...ssigned to the division, and theother three TACPs were used to support the regiments within the division.Being strictly an Air Force element, TACPs us...

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... who at that moment marched into the city to defend theArchduke. A body of infantry soon followed; reassured by theirappearance, several of the Roman ... ... irresistible. TheHungarian cavalry was the first to retreat. The Bohemian infantry soonfollowed their example; and the Germans were at last carried a... ...ign princes, stimulated by the desire ofglory or of gain, offered to raise regiments for the service of Austria.Now, therefore, for the first time in ... ...m. As the army of Tilly, which had beenreinforced by some of Wallenstein's regiments, was superior innumbers to his own, the king, to avoid a battle, ... ...ent of the first giving way.He made up for his want of cavalry, by placing infantry among thehorse; a practice which frequently decided the victory. E... ...uently decided the victory. Europe firstlearned from him the importance of infantry. All Germany wasastonished at the strict discipline which, at the ... ...the mean time, Swedish levies were made in Germany and theNetherlands, the regiments increased to their full complement, newones raised, transports pr... ...he garrison, reduced by the defence of the outworks, scarcelyexceeded 2000 infantry and a few hundred horse; a small number forso extensive and irregu... ...arch to the relief of that town; and he moved with all his cavalry, andten regiments of infantry towards the Spree. But the position which heheld in G...

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...olonel of a Regiment of Cuirassiers.COUNT TERZKY, the Commander of several Regiments, and Brother-in-law of Wallenstein.ILLO, Field-Marshal, Wallenste... ...mised.WALLENSTEIN.What asks the chancellor?WRANGEL (considerately). Twelve regiments, every man a Swede -my head The warranty - and all might prove at... ...and open! What is the demand?WRANGEL. That he forthwith disarm the Spanish regiments Attachedto the emperor, that he seize on Prague, And to the Swede... ...akest on thee the command Of those 27same Spanish regiments, - constantly Make preparation, and be neverready; And if they ur... ...NSTEIN. He goes to Frauenberg, and will lead hither TheSpanish and Italian regiments.ILLO.No! Nay, heaven forbid!WALLENSTEIN.And why should heaven for... ...ut their heedless courage Had borne them onward farbefore the others - The infantry were still at distance, only ThePappenheimers followed daringly Th...

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...igade and also my own Hussars at Padua onthe mainland. But Suchet with the infantry held the town, and he hadchosen me as his aide-de-camp for that wi... ...nd amid them facing the dais was a young fellow in theuniform of the light infantry. As he turned his head I recognised him.It was Captain Auret, of t... ...e voice again, and then "Gerard! Colonel Gerard!" It was mypoor captain of infantry whom they were slaughtering."Murderers! Murderers!" I yelled, and ... ...ndred others had gone whosenames were missing from the roll-calls of their regiments during thatwinter in Venice.The steps returned along the passage,... ...chosen a cavalry officerbecause he can be better spared than an officer of infantry or ofengineers. Married men are not eligible. Of the others, who w... ... am the senior captain. By convenience because Ishall not be missed in the regiments since the men have not yetlearned to know me."The colonel's featu... ... of the waking army. Bugles and drums inevery direction were mustering the infantry, for the explosion and theshouting had told their own tale. I stro... ...en thousand.""How much cavalry?""One brigade of Montbrun's Division.""What regiments?""The 4th Chasseurs, the 9th Hussars, ... ...thin hearing looked round, and when they saw those brokenmen, those ruined regiments, those fur-capped skeletons who wereonce the Guard, they laughed,...

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...rience as a member of the Machine Gun Section of the Twenty-first Canadian Infantry Battalion. Compiled from letters written from thefront, supplement... .... The Machine Gun Section went in the next morning, two daysahead of the infantry, and the East Surreys remained during the twodays to show us the r... ...let enumerating the campaigns and battles of one of theoldest British line regiments, together with a list of the honors, V. C's.and so on, won by mem... ...s a rule, converted into redoubts or "strong-points," and defended by both infantry and machine guns. To thenorthward, within the German lines, was th... ...entin Cabaret together with many from thebest and most famous British Line Regiments. The Emma Gees came out pretty lucky, having but one manserious... ...tacked point, ourartillery, all along the line, was doing its best and our infantry madefeint attacks at several places. We had gone back in the line ... ... relieved the King Edward Horse who were acting, as was all thecavalry, as infantry. My crew, together with Sandy McNab's, was assigned to an oldBel... ... of the Gloucestershire and the "Ox and Bucks" (Oxford andBuckinghamshire) Regiments and through an error on the part of the R.T. O. (railway transpor...

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...istrates of the City threw open their gates andjoined the procession. Four regiments of militia lined the way upLudgate Hill, round Saint Paul's Cathe... ...d the fate of their country, theirs hadbeen an inglorious part. Forty fine regiments, a regular army such ashad never before marched to battle under t... ...may was great. It wasrumoured that alarming symptoms had appeared in other regiments,and particularly that a body of fusileers which lay at Harwich wa... ...ormed them that he had already given the necessaryorders. In fact, several regiments of horse and dragoons had beensent northward under the command of... ...e bravest warriors could not contend against fourfold odds.The most active infantry could not outrun horsemen. Yet the leaders,probably despairing of ... ...cember they received from Dublin an intimation thattwo companies of Popish infantry were to be immediately quartered onthem. The alarm of the little c... ...ere told of his barbarity and perfidy. Longlines of tents, occupied by the infantry of Butler and O'Neil, of LordSlane and Lord Gormanstown, by Nugent... ...his cannon in such a manner as to sweep this causeway.Wolseley ordered his infantry to the attack. They struggled through thebog, made their way to fi... ...way carbines, swords, and even coats asincumbrances. The infantry, seeing themselves deserted, flung downtheir pikes and muskets and...