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"With the approval of the Imperial Government authority is given for the raising of one Infantry Regiment to be named 'Princess Patricia's Light Infantry.'" -Canadian Defence Minister Sam Hughes ...

He enlisted in the Army on March 15, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey. He was assigned to Company K, 16th Infantry Regiment 1st Infantry Division. John Charles Svetecz was born Sept. 23, 1923 ...

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. IMAGE: US troops move onto Utah Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944. Photographs: Kind courtesy Wikimedia Commons The ...

He was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. After successful campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, the 16th Infantry Regiment returned to Dorchester ...

A handout photo made available by the US Army shows US soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, waiting by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital ...

A handout photo made available by the US Army shows US soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment, wounded while storming Omaha Beach, waiting by the chalk cliffs for evacuation to a field hospital ...

These are the men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment — the first all-Black battalion enlisted during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. A new mural, “Pride of the ...

John Ellery, who served in the 16th Infantry Regiment. Matthew Adams covers the Defense Department at the Pentagon. His past reporting experience includes covering politics for The Dallas Morning ...

Members of E Company of the 16th Infantry Regiment approach the Normandy beaches in the first wave of the D-Day invasion. National Park Service By Joseph Carpenter, oral historian in the Department of ...

The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...