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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 11/6/2004 3:37:29 AM

Matt2

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Mine is the US 2nd Division. It's the one I wear on the right sleeve of my uniform, but I have been a fan for a while. The first book that got me interested in history was "Company Commander" by Charles MacDonald of the 2nd Infantry Division. I have also tromped all over the Bulge battlefield where the Division was. The division was also prominent (and still is) in Korea. I suppose that I am biased though.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 11/8/2004 10:44:53 PM

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I like the Italian 65th "Granatieri di Savoia" division.

1) Did well in doomed East African campaign
2) Cool name
3) Nice mix of troops (Infantry, CCNN, Bersaglieri, Alpini, Cavalry, Engineer, etc)
4) I can buy the whole thing for less than 10,000 pts!!!!!

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/11/2005 3:30:20 PM

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Granatieri di Savoia

Cool name! And if you can buy it with 10,000 points it's also great. If you also created a scenario where that unit fights...

My favourite WWII Division is the Finnish PsD - the armoured division. Because it had:

(almost) All the tanks in army
Best infantry
And almost the best commander Ruben Lagus. 3rd Division commander A. Pajari was probably even better.

Best Regiment in Finnish army was 7th Infantry and it's commander A. Ehrnrooth was the best regimental commander.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 2:38:26 AM

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While my Scots blood says its the 51st (Highland) Division, I'm going with the US 4th Infantry Division.

The Ivy Division, for me, kind of sums up the workmanlike job the American soldier did in the war. Not much publicity, just storm the beach and fight across Europe.

Plus it's got the best and most intelligent moniker, Tropic Lightning excepted, of any US division. Why they changed it to something as bland as "Ironhorse" I'll never know.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 3:36:21 AM

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1st British Airborne Division, for the awesome fight they put up at Arnhem.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 4:12:51 AM

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On the other hand, I can't figure the Army's idea of continuity. From what I can gather, the 2nd Armored Division was renamed the 4th Infantry Division in 1995.

And instead being the composed of the 8th, 12th and 22nd Infantry with supporting units (nine rifle batllions and four artillery batallions), the 4th ID is now the 1/22, the 1 and 2/8, the 1/12 and the first batallions of the 66th, 67th, and 68th Armored Regiments, and the 3/66th AR. So that's four infantry and four tank batallions, all of which were renamed a decade ago. And a quarter of them are reserve components.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 12:17:26 PM

Terminus

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Hey, the 3rd ID used to be the 24th ID. Don't worry about it...

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 6:17:40 PM

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Hello...

Always had a fondness for the German 130th Panzer Division (Panzer Learning Division), because they often had neat stuff to test. Also, although destroyed by American air power in France they did retreat in good order.

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RE: What is your Favorite WWII Division, and Why? - 8/13/2005 6:58:14 PM

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Though not a unit in our recognised sense, the many partisan units in Europe and Pacific theatres.
With out them many of the covert operations in Europe would not have worked, the Coast Watch and similar units in the Pacific would not have survived.
They were our manned and poorly equipped in comparison to the regular units.
In many cases not even recognised by their own countries after the war.
Not easily represented in SPWAW.

But make a good scenario

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