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The 198th Infantry Division participated in the German invasion of Denmark and was present for the occupation of Copenhagen on 9 April 1940. [2] One of its battalions, II./308, was brought into Copenhagen harbor by a German naval group ("Kriegsschiffgruppe 8"), consisting of German minelayer Hansestadt Danzig and German icebreaker Stettin, when Hansestadt Danzig steamed into Copenhagen harbor ...
The 8th Infantry Regiment assaulted Utah Beach on June 6, 1944. It was the first of the 4th Infantry Division's infantry regiments to land on Utah Beach. In World War II, the 8th Infantry Regiment was cited twice in the order of the day by the Belgian Army - the first for action in the Belgian Campaign, and later for action in the Ardennes.
After the 52nd Infantry Regiment's activation in 1917, the regiment was assigned to the Sixth Infantry Division.The Sixth Division was organized in November 1917 as a square division consisting of the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, and the 54th Infantry Regiments, the 16th, 17th and 18th Machine-Gun Battalions and the 3rd, 11th and 78th Field Artillery Regiments.
He had previously commanded the 8th Rifle Brigade at Hanko. On June 22 the 198th was at Strelna and Oranienbaum in the reserves of 23rd Army, which would join Northern Front when it was created from the Leningrad District two days later. As was the case with most of the motorized divisions it was still in the process of forming and was ...
8th (Irish) Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool) (until 4 July 1943) 6th Battalion, Border Regiment (until 9 September 1943) 7th Battalion, Border Regiment (until 9 December 1942) 198th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 30 July 1940, disbanded 14 July 1941) 2nd Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment (from 9 December 1942 until 23 August ...
2/10th (County of London) Bn, London Regiment (Hackney) 2/11th (County of London) Bn, London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles) – disbanded January 1918 and drafted to 1/20th, 1/21st and 1/22nd Bns; 2/12th (County of London) Bn, London Regiment (The Rangers) – amalgamated with 1/12th Bn from 56th (1/1st London) Division January 1918 and became 12th Bn
The 58th Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army first established in 1917.. The regiment was organized in 1917 from the Fourth Infantry as shown on the distinctive unit insignia; the field is blue for Infantry; the regiment served in France in the Fourth Division, shown by the ivy leaves from the shoulder sleeve insignia; the torpedo commemorates the first losses of the ...
The 54th Infantry Regiment (for a time, known as the 54th Armored Infantry Regiment) is a United States Army Regimental System parent regiment of the United States Army. It is represented in the active Army by the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, which conduct Infantry One Station Unit Training (OSUT) at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning), Georgia.