Word: 32nd
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...southern end of the Japanese line on Leyte last week a division of U.S. troops hacked a path to Hill 1525, an enemy key position. Their work was expert-and with reason. The 32nd Division was one of the best in the Pacific, and it had learned its art in the hardest possible...
There was a time when the 32nd was less distinguished. Its story was a case history of the hard way in which many another U.S. outfit has grown battlewise...
...32nd (Red Arrow Division) started early in 1942, when they were dispatched in haste to reinforce the Allies' faltering Pacific frontier. Behind the 32nd was a good history. It had fought in World War I, where its men had earned from the French the nickname, "Les Terribles." It was made up of National Guard units from Michigan and Wisconsin, draftees, regular officers. It had had some field training, a little tutoring in jungle fighting under simulated conditions in Louisiana. But training in those days was not up to post-Pearl Harbor standards, and the 32nd-though...
...Hell of Buna. In May 1942, the 32nd was dumped into Australia. Douglas MacArthur, beginning his New Guinea campaign, picked it for his onslaught on Buna...
Harding was relieved. MacArthur sent Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger to take command of all the Buna forces, which included the 41st Infantry Division-as green as the 32nd-and units of the 6th and 7th Australians. MacArthur's instructions to Eichelberger: don't come back until Buna is taken. Brigadier General Albert Whitney Waldron, put in command of the 32nd, was wounded. Brigadier General Clovis Byers succeeded him and he was wounded. Buna finally fell...