At 12: 00 a meeting was held between Major-General Erskine and Brigadier Hinde, the commanding officer of the division's 22nd Armoured Brigade.

Hines ' son, Col. John L. Hines, Jr. ( 1905 – 1986 ), served in World War II with the 6th Armored Division, commanding the division's Combat Command A from November 1944 to March 1945.

Due to the speed of the Axis advance and the division's lack of transport, confusion reigned and part of the 2 / 15th Battalion, including most of its headquarters and its commanding officer, were captured.

A scratch force of 106th Division personnel, in particular the division's 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, was organized and led by the 81st's 28-year-old commanding officer, Lt. Col. Thomas Riggs, in a five-day holding action ( 17 – 21 December ) on a thin ridge line a mile outside St. Vith, against German forces vastly superior in numbers and armament ( only a few hundred combat-green Americans against many thousands of veteran Germans ).

The division's commanding officers were to come from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.

The commanding officer is impressed with his skill and takes Richard away as a captive to become a player of Ja ' La dh Jin ( Game of Life ) on his division's team.

Each division had a liaison officer attached to general headquarters in Khartoum to facilitate the division's communication with various command elements.

The Vega was assigned to Chevrolet by corporate management, specifically by GM president Ed Cole, just weeks before DeLorean's 1969 arrival as Chevrolet division's general manager.

The wound was considered mortal by the division's surgeon, who predicted he would perish ; Chamberlain's incorrectly recorded death in battle was reported in the Maine newspapers, and Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant gave Chamberlain a battlefield promotion to the rank of brigadier general after receiving an urgent recommendation on June 19 from corps commander Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren: " He has been recommended for promotion for gallant and efficient conduct on previous occasion and yesterday led his brigade against the enemy under most destructive fire.

Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the division's establishment fluctuated due to the effects of the Great Depression and a general apathy towards military matters.

At this time, the division's artillery assets included two artillery field regiments, a medium regiment, and a divisional locating battery, and although on paper the division was a large, combined arms formation, in reality many of its units were hollow and inadequately equipped, and in the decades following this the division, and indeed the CMF in general, underwent a period of uncertainty as the government attempted to solve the issues that the organisation faced, the most pressing of which was the question of its role and strategic relevance, as well as those concerning conditions of service, centralisation of training and access to equipment.

An audit of the division, conducted by DHS's inspector general Clark Kent Ervin, cast a negative view on the division's first year.

Gough wanted the Australian 1st Division to attack immediately but the division's British commander, Major General Harold Walker, refused to send his men in without adequate preparation.

The division's first commander was Major General John Shirley Wood, ( known as " P " Wood to his contemporaries, the " P " standing for " Professor ") who took over the division in 1942 and trained it for two years before he led it into battle.

At the suggestion of a subordinate, the division's commander, Major General Alexander Patch, requested that the new unit be known as the Americal Division — the name being a contraction of " American, New Caledonian Division ".

Rotating his brigades, the division's commander, Major General William Bridgeford, advanced south from Torokina towards the Puriata river.

The division's commander was Brigadier General Harold Walker, a British officer who had replaced Major General William Bridges as temporary commander after Bridges had been killed by a sniper in May.

Early doubts about the division's performance earned it the nickname of " Harper's Duds " after the name of its commander Major General G. M.

Major General Paul Newgarden, the division's first commander selected " Tiger " as the winner because a tiger has soldierly qualities, including being clean and neat and the ability to maneuever and surprise his prey.

The division's commander at this point was Major General Charles Monro.

The 2nd Armoured Division was the first British division in Germany to undergo this reorganisation, and the division's commander while this establishment was tested was Major General Frank Kitson.

The left wing of the division, 58 Regiment, commanded by the division's Infantry Group commander, Major General Shigesaburo Miyazaki, was ahead of the neighbouring formation ( Japanese 15th Infantry Division ) when they clashed with Indian troops covering the northern approaches to Imphal on 20 March.

Major General Cowan planned to break the deadlock on this front by sending the 48th Indian Infantry Brigade on a wide left hook into the Japanese division's rear while 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade attacked them in front.

The Japanese division's temporary commander ( its Chief of Staff, Major General Tetsujiro Tanaka ) planned at the same time to infiltrate through Indian 17th Division's front to seize vital objectives in the middle of the Indian positions.

During this time Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri was serving as the division's commander, and he served as Military Governor of the state in the immediate aftermath of the invasion.

The division's commander, Major General E. J.

The division's commander, Major General Alan Jones, called Middleton, concerned about his two regiments east of the river.

The division continued to exist briefly afterward ; Major Halle, the division's adjutant, escaped the Ruhr encirclement with a small battle group, and joined the 11th Army in the Harz Mountains.

Reluctant to commit 2nd Panzer until it was fully assembled, General der Panzertruppe Hans Freiherr von Funck, of XLVII Panzer Korps, was nevertheless persuaded to rush the division's reconnaissance battalion to Caumont with orders to hold the high ground there.

The division's origins are in a 1953 feasibility study for General Electric.

In his 1998 book Death Traps, Belton Cooper, who was a lieutenant in the 3rd Armored Division during World War II, working as a liaison officer for the division's armor repair units, made the claim that General George S. Patton was primarily responsible for delaying the development and production of the M26.

The Battle of Jaffa saw the passage of the Nahr El Auja, on the night of 20 – 21 December 1917, by the division's three Brigades, which according to General Sir Edmund Allenby's despatch " reflects great credit on the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division.

General Mascarenhas de Moraes ( later Marshal ) was the commander of the BEF with General Zenóbio da Costa as commander of the division's three regimental Combat Teams (" RCT ") and General Cordeiro de Farias as commander of the Artillery.

The division's commander was Lieutenant General Sir Francis Clery.

Initially under the command of Lieutenant General Thomas Blamey, the division was originally composed of the 16th, 17th and 18th Brigades, each established with four infantry battalions, but later as a result of the 18th Brigade being sent to the United Kingdom in June 1940 and the decision to adopt the British establishment of three infantry battalions to a brigade, the 19th Brigade was raised as the division's third infantry brigade.

In August Admiral Raymond Spruance was flown down to New Zealand to meet with the new commander of the 2nd Marine Division, General Julian Smith, and initiate the planning of the invasion with the division's commanders.

A new forceful commander, Lieutenant General Nobuo Tanaka, took command of the 33rd Division on 22 May, and ordered repeated attacks which reduced many of his division's battalions to mere handfuls of men.

It combined solid service in numerous battles and campaigns with the My Lai massacre, which was committed by a platoon of the division's subordinate 11th Infantry Brigade, led by Lieutenant William Calley.

It was also revealed that William Grant, whose brands include Glenfiddich Scotch Whisky and Hendrick's Gin, would operate the division's packaging facility located at the group's manufacturing site in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Not only did that division's acting commander, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, show up ahead of schedule, but so did Colonel William Roberts from the 10th Armored Division Combat Command R ( CCR ), sent by Patton.

In October General Walker was severely wounded and replaced by the division's artillery commander, Br .- Gen. Talbot Hobbs who in turn fell ill and was replaced on 6 November by the commander of the Australian 1st Light Horse Brigade, Br .- Gen. H. G.