Word: regimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poppy & the Cricket. The fiesta committee scored its most resounding triumph with the return of the Bersaglieri, the proudest troops of Italy. The Bersaglieri wear plumes of cock feathers in their caps, run instead of march, and in Trastevere, which always had its own regiment, have been a tradition for almost 100 years. Since World War II, however, Trastevere's regiment had been quartered in Milan. With the opening of this year's feast, the first units of the old Trastevere Bersagliere regiment came home, ran heroically through the twisting streets blowing bugles while exuberant Trasteverini welcomed them...
...fairness, the writing in Ted Lewis' article on the Malmedy trials is far more successful than previous attempts at the topical article have been. It deals with the efforts of military prosecutors to convict the officers and men of a German regiment for the murder of American prisoners of war during the Battle of the Bulge, and is a straightforward account of brutal tactics used by the prosecution, based on facts which the editors say were uncovered but not printed by a large metropolitan daily. As a piece of reporting, the Malmedy article is a fine...
World War II was two-thirds over before he got into it. His regiment was the first in the 4th Infantry Division...
...infantrymen plodded back from the front to take up new positions nearer the city. A young captain in tennis shoes, a grimy sweat rag at his waist, said nervously: "Kung-fei hen li hai [the Communist bandits are very fierce]." In a day-long battle to the northwest, his regiment had lost a third of its men. The captain crouched, swung his silver-knobbed cane in imitation of a Tommy gun. "They came from all sides," he said, "five, ten men against a single gun. What could...
...nature of the material, we anticipated a cold refusal by the latter. To our surprise, full consent was given with certain stipulations that were readily accepted by us ... As one result of the Guards' participation in making the film, our Conspirator audiences will see a famous Guards' regiment in a military formation similar to that which tourists so eagerly attend at Buckingham Palace...