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I'll say I'm glad to be here in the Para Battalion.†
Chpt 4. *

battalion = large group of soldiers
He was assigned to Company B, 3rd Parachute Battalion, Divisional Special Troops, 3rd Marine Division.†
Chpt 4.
Easy Company was part of the 2nd Battalion commanded by Colonel Chandler Johnson.†
Chpt 5.
Whatever he needed—a lone Marine to assault a blockhouse, a three-man fire squad, a forty-man platoon, a two-hundred-fifty-man company, a nine-hundred-man battalion, or a three-thousand-man regiment—all his Marines had to be able to break off or come together as needed.†
Chpt 5.
These games marshaled the division's nine landing teams, each an infantry battalion with guns, armor, and other support elements.†
Chpt 5.
The 1st Battalion went straight across the island while the 2nd Battalion, with Easy Company, had to swing around immediately to the left and together they would take the hill.†
Chpt 5.
The 1st Battalion went straight across the island while the 2nd Battalion, with Easy Company, had to swing around immediately to the left and together they would take the hill.†
Chpt 5.
Soon the best fortifications specialists in the Japanese army arrived on Iwo: quarry experts, mining engineers, labor battalions, and fortress units.†
Chpt 6.

battalions = large groups of soldiers
Eight battalions were onshore by the afternoon, as were the tank battalions of two divisions and elements of two artillery battalions.†
Chpt 7.
Eight battalions were onshore by the afternoon, as were the tank battalions of two divisions and elements of two artillery battalions.†
Chpt 7.
Eight battalions were onshore by the afternoon, as were the tank battalions of two divisions and elements of two artillery battalions.†
Chpt 7.
Soon after sunrise on D-Day plus one, Colonel Liversedge positioned his 2nd and 3rd Battalions to continue their assault on Mount Suribachi.†
Chpt 8.
Easy would retrace their steps of the day before, going eastward to position themselves in the 2nd Battalion area.†
Chpt 8.

battalion = large group of soldiers
At eight-thirty, Harry the Horse gave the order to attack, and elements of the 2nd Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Chandler Johnson, and the 3rd Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Charles Shepard, moved out.†
Chpt 8.
At eight-thirty, Harry the Horse gave the order to attack, and elements of the 2nd Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Chandler Johnson, and the 3rd Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Charles Shepard, moved out.†
Chpt 8.
Ruhl rounded up an assistant and a stretcher and bore the man off, again through heavy fire, to the Battalion Aid station three hundred yards away.†
Chpt 8.
The 2nd Battalion had clawed its way some one hundred yards toward Suribachi.†
Chpt 8.
"Our sick bay was just a rifle in the ground," recalled Dr. James Wittmeier, the battalion surgeon.†
Chpt 8.
They knew that in the morning their battalion would have to assault the mountain.†
Chpt 8.
In the tense silence as first light broke, Easy Company lay poised for action on the 2nd Battalion's right flank.†
Chpt 9.
Dave Severance's boys had penetrated past some active Japanese units, and spent the night isolated from the battalion.†
Chpt 9.
Radio connections to battalion headquarters had gone dead.†
Chpt 10.
The captain sent a patrol around the southern base of Suribachi to seek a linkup with the 3rd Battalion and to probe for enemy soldiers in the caves along the base of the volcano.†
Chpt 10.
Battalion officers moved their command posts up to the brush-line at the base of the slopes.†
Chpt 10.
Harry paid a visit to Colonel Johnson at his 2nd Battalion headquarters and issued a terse command: "Tomorrow we climb."†
Chpt 10.
The flag belonged to the battalion, as far as Johnson was concerned.†
Chpt 11.
Severance ordered Mike, Harlon, Ira, and Franklin to the battalion command post to tie in a telephone wire that the fire team would then unreel up the mountain.†
Chpt 11.
The important flag—the first one raised that day—was brought down the mountain and presented to Colonel Johnson, who stored it in the battalion safe.†
Chpt 11.
It bore too much historic value for the battalion to be left unguarded atop Suribachi.†
Chpt 11.
Several months later, the 2nd Battalion filed its "Action Report" for its role in the Battle of Iwo Jima.†
Chpt 11.
The 28th threw all three of its battalions onto the line, and the hidden Japanese gunners resumed their harvest.†
Chpt 13.

battalions = large groups of soldiers
On this day, the 2nd Battalion's feisty colonel, Chandler Johnson—who had saved the original flag on Suribachi for his men—was blown to bits, a collarbone here, another fragment there.†
Chpt 13.

battalion = large group of soldiers
The next day, the 2nd Battalion was relieved.†
Chpt 13.
Seven men died in the 2nd Battalion.†
Chpt 13.
Doc was rushed to the Battalion Aid station for emergency treatment, then on to the field hospital, where some of the fragments were removed.†
Chpt 13.
The hard statistics show the sacrifice made by Colonel Johnson's 2nd Battalion: 1,400 boys landed on D-Day; 288 replacements were provided as the battle went on, a total of 1,688.†
Chpt 13.

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(1) (battalion)
a large group of soldiers -- especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies
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