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What forces were at the invasion of Saipan and what were the infantry divisions?
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Task Force 58 and 5th Amphibious Force. V Amphibious Corp was landed on Saipan and was made up of 2nd & 4th Marine Divisions and the 27th Infantry division. Sorry I neglected to say what I know about the Japanese force on Saipan. i must be suffering from a kind of victory disease of my own. I'm not sure about the unit designations but the Japanese force consisted of about 32,000 men and a small tank unit.
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What year did American forces liberate Saipan and Leyte?
1944
Name given to soldiers on foot?
Infantry or ground forces
What army forces did Germany and the Allies deploy prior to the German invasion of France?
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Who assisted the Koreans during the Korean conflict?
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Who is more elite us Army infantry or us Marines infantry?
The british forces :P
What impact did the Japanese submarine attack on Sydney have on Australians?
Australia had been attacked by air in the north at Darwin. Its pans to defend a line around Brisbane were upset by the daring attack in Sydney Harbour. This attack increased public fears of an amphibious attack on the south, but of course this could not have happened as the Japanese had run out of resources to do any out any substantial invasion. The best they had left for the invasion of New Guinea was a marine regiment in the failed attempt at Milne Bay and a scratch half-division at Kokoda. Australia's forces were five infantry and three armoured divisions in Australia and three infantry divisions returning from the Middle East. Still, that didn't stop[ a panic over the Sydney event. Our government was not very adept at responding to psychological warfare to put it mildly.
What divisions of the US military were involved in the European front Army Navy etc?
I assume your Question was directed regarding the US Army and Navy. During the war, the US raised INFANTRY divisions that were numbered 1 through 106, but a few of the numbers were not used. So there was NOT a total of 106 infantry divisions(see the link for a list). For example, numbers from 46 to 62 were not used. These Infantry Divisions also included the Airborn Infantry Divisions or the paratroopers and one Mountain Division. Infantry Divisions that fought in Europe, North Africa, and Italy: 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 13 17 26 28 29 30 34 35 36 44 45 63 65 66 69 70 71 75 76 78 79 80 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 97 99 100 101 102 103 104 106 Some that did not exist were the "Ghost Divisions" that was used as fake units to decieve the Germans into thinking that General Patton was raising an Army for the invasion of Germany. Some of these divisions had existed during World War 1 and were re-activated. Some had never existed before. Link to a list of US INFANTRY DIVISIONS and their patches and it shows which Divisions were in Europe. http://www.custermen.com/ItalyWW2/ArmyOrg/OrgChart/Divisions.htm ARMORED Divisons included about 20. Also there were still a few Cavalry Divisions. One was used as an occupation force in Japan after the surrender. The Air Force was actually a sub-branch of the US Army or known as the US Army Air Corps. The Air Forces were divided up for service in different geographical regions and purposes. Some were medium bombers and some heavy; some were located in Europe and some in Panama Canal. The Air Forces were numbered as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1112, 13, 14, 15 1st , 2nd ,3rd, 4th,6thAir Forces were in US & Panama Canal. 8th, 9th, 12th, 15th Air Forces were in England, Europe and Italy. 5th, 7th, 10th 11th, 13th 14th Air Forces were in Pacific Theaterand Indo-China. (TBD)
What is the best infantry regiment in the UK forces?
Rifles
Why the Persian were defeated in the war?
If you mean in the Persian Wars against the Greek city-states, it was because the cities temporarily postponed their own wars between each other and combined their forces against the Persian army and naval forces. These forces prevailed at sea because they developed superior naval tactics.The Greek land forces prevailed because their soldiers were armoured infantry (the Persian infantry were unarmoured) and the Greek forces engaged the Persians on rough ground where the superior Persian cavalry could not operate effectively. If you mean Alexander the Great's invasion, Alexander raised a competitive cavalry force to the Persian one, and used this in combination with his superior armoured infantry to better effect.
What is grenadiers?
Panzer grenadiers were infantry that were attached to armored or panzer grenadier divisions. The panzer grenadier division were infantry divisions that also had native panzer units as part of the division instead of being attached from another unit. The term Panzergrenadier was applied equally to both the infantry component of Panzer Divisions as well as the new divisions known as Panzergrenadier Divisions. Most of the Heer's PzGren. divisions evolved via upgrades from ordinary infantry divisions, first to Motorized Infantry divisions and then to PzGren. divisions, retaining their numerical designation within the series for infantry divisions throughout the process. This included the 3rd, 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 25th, and 29th divisions. Others, such as the Großdeutschland Division, were built up over the course of the war by repeatedly augmenting the size of an elite regiment or battalion. The Waffen SS also created several PzGren. divisions by the same methods, or by creating new divisions from scratch later in the war. A number of PzGren. divisions in both the Heer and Waffen SS were upgraded to Panzer divisions as the war progressed. The Panzergrenadier divisions were organized as combined arms formations, usually with six battalions of truck-mounted infantry organized into either two or three regiments, a battalion of tanks, and an ordinary division's complement of artillery, reconnaissance units, combat engineers, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery, and so forth. All these support elements would also be mechanized in a PzGren. division, though most of the artillery, anti-tank, and anti-aircraft elements were equipped with weapons towed by trucks rather than the relatively rare armored and self-propelled models. In practice the PzGren. divisions were often equipped with heavy assault guns rather than tanks, due to a chronic shortage of tanks throughout the German armed forces. A few elite units, on the other hand, might have the tanks plus a battalion of heavy assault guns for their anti-tank element, and armored carriers for some of their infantry battalions as well. On paper a Panzergrenadierdivision had one tank battalion less than a Panzer division, but two more infantry battalions, and thus was almost as strong as a Panzer division, especially on the defensive. Of 226 panzergrenadier battalions in the whole of the German Army, Luftwaffe and Waffen SS in September 1943, only 26 were equipped with armoured half tracks, or just over 10 percent. The rest were equipped with trucks.
What statement provides the best description of Operation Desert Shield?
It was designed to protect Saudi Arabia from an invasion of Iraqi forces. It was designed to protect Saudi Arabia from an invasion of Iraq forces
Can women in the army join the infantry forces?
Not in the US military, no.
