Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already nervous because of a renewed flurry of Communist sabotage. Some unguarded telephone stations had been blown up, and Communist pamphlets were attacking the new government, U.S. aid, and-most venomously-General Van Fleet, who was referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led a regiment across the Normandy beaches in 1944 and rose to be a division commander in four months, was not alarmed by the threat on his life, but the Athenian authorities were. How had the note-bearer escaped the vigilance of two detectives constantly on guard in the general's corridor...
...Rogue's regiment" is a pretty poor slice of life in the raw. The plot is hyper-complicated, provides for but one pier six brawl, and leaves enough loose ends around to knit a pair of argyle socks. People are killed aimlessly for the sheer desire to spill gore, the heroine is permitted to warble a couple of songs, and there are even a couple of inscrutable references to the Russians. The role of Vincent Price left this observer completely baffled. He run guns to the natives, helped out former SS men, and was in general a sort of catch...
After war's end, the Germans responsible for the massacre fell into Allied hands. Among them were two SS bigwigs, General Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich, commander of the 6th Armored Division, and Colonel Joachim Peiper of the ist Armored Regiment (known as "Peiper's Task Force"). But most were youngsters whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta...
Soldier. When Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War organized the famous Second Cavalry Regiment (which produced twelve Confederate generals), Thomas was commissioned a major in the unit. At the beginning of the Civil War, all the elements of a personal tragedy were present in his situation: he was from the South and had principally served with Southerners; Virginia considered making him her chief of ordnance; Thomas had himself applied for the post of commandant of Virginia Military Institute a short time before...
Rogues' Regiment (Universal-International) revives the reliable old French Foreign Legion and throws in a few renegade Nazis for good measure. It seems that a sinister character known as Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) disappeared from Nazi circles at the time Hitler died. Hot on his trail is a handsome, fearless U.S. intelligence officer (Dick Powell) whose spy contact in Saïgon is a sultry nightclub singer (Marta Toren). The comic strips could take it from there...