Word: regiments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, 110 years after Lieut. Colonel George Custer made his infamous last stand, Plains Indians and the 7th Cavalry Regiment met again at Little Bighorn. Their purpose: to rebury the bones of 34 of Custer's men discovered during a two-year archaeological survey. Early in the morning, descendants of the Cheyenne held a prayer service; in the afternoon, cavalrymen and Indians, many of them veterans of America's past three wars, carried out a military internment ceremony...
...display of modern equipment like infrared binoculars. Said Martin: "We had parachutes and rifles, and that was about it." Adventure? James J. Angleton got into World War II as a private, entered the OSS and soon rose to be the OSS's chief of counterintelligence, while simultaneously commanding a regiment in Italy; he later held the top counterintelligence slot...
Just 25 days before Adolf Hitler committed suicide in Berlin, U.S. Army Private Wil bert Massman entered Munich with the 179th Infantry Regiment and settled into a small apartment on the city's east side, using it as an office. While rummaging through a bookcase, Massman stumbled on a red leather album embossed with a swastika. Flipping through the album, he saw 72 photos of World War I scenes, four of which showed a man who appeared to be the young Adolf Hitler. Other items, bearing the monogram A.H., convinced Massman that the apartment had once been Hitler's. Massman...
DIED. John H. Michaelis, 73, retired four-star Army general, whose courage in combat earned him the nickname Iron Mike; of a heart attack; in Clayton, Ga. During the Korean conflict, as commander of the 27th Infantry (Wolfhound) Regiment, Michaelis prepared his men for battle with the famous rallying cry "You're not here to die for your country. You're here to make those so- and-sos die for theirs...
...regiment's colonel in chief was rakishly turned out in a uniform of green overalls, helmet, goggles and Hermes scarf. Just the thing this year if you are Princess Anne spending the day in Warminster, Wiltshire, inspecting the latest weaponry of your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon...