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Definition
a large group of soldiers — especially an army unit consisting of a headquarters and at least three companies
- He was being called to command a battalion in Korea and had to leave the next day.p. 386.9
- Before dawn on December 7, 1950, Harris stood on a frozen Korean mountain with his weary battalion, which had seen such horrendous fighting that it had lost three-quarters of its men.p. 386.9
There are no more uses of "battalion" in Unbroken by Hillenbrand.
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