Allied Arts Corporation first listed the Chicago dates as Dec. 4 thru 10.

Florey and Chain succeeded in purifying the first penicillin, penicillin G procaine in 1942, but it did not become widely available outside Allied military before 1945.

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

Tallard's squadrons, lacking infantry support, were tired and ragged but managed to push the Allied first line back to their infantry support.

These guns ( some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year ) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.

While the attack on Taviers went in the Earl of Orkney launched his first line of English across the Petite Gheete in a determined attack against the barricaded villages of Offus and Autre-Eglise on the Allied right.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

US Navy destroyers were among the first American units to be dispatched upon the American entry to the war, and a squadron of Japanese destroyers even joined Allied patrols in the Mediterranean.

It was first deployed during World War II when the Allied forces needed a system which could be used to achieve accurate landings.

* Among the first awards of the Distinguished Service Medal for service in World War I, were those to the Commanding Officers of the Allied Armies:

The first phase was purely naval on the Allied side, as Lord Kitchener would not authorise troops to be shifted from the Western Front.

On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.

* 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105, 000 Allied casualties.

The Allied powers were also under obligation by the Treaty of Versailles to attempt to disarm, and the armament restrictions imposed on the defeated countries had been described as the first step toward worldwide disarmament.

* 1945 – World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.

Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Soviet Union, the world's first constitutionally socialist state and a recognized superpower, which played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II.

* 1944 – World War II: The first Allied troops of the U. S. Army cross the western border of Germany.

The actor Richard Todd, who performed in The Longest Day and was amongst the first of the Allied soldiers to land in Normandy, said the film was " Rubbish.

Any military planner would know that to mount a massive invasion of Europe from England, Allied units had to be staged around the country, with those that would land first nearest to the invasion point.

* May 6 – WWII: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops ( the first was on December 11, 1941 ).

* May 8 – WWII: The Battle of the Coral Sea ( first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other's fleets ) ends in an Allied victory.

** Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia ; it is the United States ' first major battle defeat of the war.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

" He acknowledged that all those who died were unarmed when they were killed by British soldiers and that a British soldier had fired the first shot at civilians.

Some sources derive the name of the weapon from the name of its first users — bernarda troopers called " carabiniers ", from the French carabine, from the Old French carabin ( soldier armed with a musket ), perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, perhaps from scarabee, scarab beetle.

* Service number ( E. g., 11111 / 00 / 00B, where the first five digits are the ID, the second two are the year the soldier turned 18 years old, the last two digits are the year the soldier enlisted, and the letter is the enlistment group, either A or B )

** Soldiers ' ID card number and first letter of the powiat the soldier came from

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

" A man of honor, Ashley became a soldier in grey in the Confederate States Army though he says he would have freed his slaves after his father's death, if the war hadn't done it first.

This first statement of the previously uncodified rules and articles of war led to the first prosecution for war crimes — in the case of United States prisoners of war held in cruel and depraved conditions at Andersonville, Georgia, in which the Confederate commandant of that camp was tried and hanged, the only Confederate soldier to be punished by death in the aftermath of the entire Civil War.

* 1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.

* 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner ( d. 1932 )

Sartre portrayed his own pre-war situation in the character Mathieu, chief protagonist in The Age of Reason, which was completed during Sartre's first year as a soldier in the Second World War.

In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop ( 1927 ), the legend of Kit Carson is explored, first as compassionate friend to the natives, later as " misguided " soldier.

The first land mine in Europe was created by Pedro Navarro ( d. 1528 ), a Spanish soldier, who used it in the settles of the Italian castles, in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

For example, in Miles Gloriosus, the titular “ braggart soldier ” Pyrgopolynices only shows his vain and immodest side in the first act, while the parasite Artotrogus exaggerates Pyrgopolynices ’ achievements, creating more and more ludicrous claims that Pyrgopolynices agrees to without question.

* 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.

* In the video game Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds ( first released in 2001 ), selecting a Stormtrooper soldier ( Galactic Empire faction ) occasionally results in his reply " THX 1138 ready, sir!

* Takashi Shimura as, the leader of the group and the first " recruited " by the villagers, he is a wise but war-weary soldier.

In interviews before his execution, documented in American Terrorist, McVeigh stated he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated.

( SPI, 1973 )-along with Patrol, the first Man to Man wargames where game pieces depicted a single soldier.

* March 4 – A soldier at Camp Funston, Kansas falls sick with the first confirmed case of the Spanish flu.

* January 31 – Eddie Slovik is executed by firing squad for desertion, the first American soldier since the American Civil War, and last to date to be executed for this offense.

* September 20 – The first soldier joins the Spanish Legion.