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59th Infantry Division
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In military terms, 59th Division may refer to: ; Infantry divisions : * 59th Division (People's Republic of China) * 59th Mountain Infantry Division Cagliari - Italian Army of World War II * 59th (2nd North Midland) Division - British infantry division in World War I * 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division - British infantry division in World War II *59th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) *59th Infantry Division (Russian Empire) *59th Rifle Division (RSFSR) *59th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union) * 59th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) *59th Division (Spain) Armored divisions * 59th Tank Division (Soviet Union) The 59th Quartermaster Company is a bulk petroleum company designed to provide semi-portable storage for of fuel and to provide distribution of fuel to military units within a specified geographic area while deployed overseas. Its secondary missi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Division (People's Republic Of China)
The 59th Division was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army, which was created in February 1949 under ''the Regulation of the Redesignations of All Organizations and Units of the Army'', issued by the Central Military Commission on November 1, 1948, basing on the 2nd Division, 1st Column of Huadonng Field Army. Its origin can be traced back to the Jiangnan anti-Japanese volunteers' Army(lang-zh:江南抗日义勇军) formed in May 1939. Under the command of PLA 20th Corps it took part in the Chinese civil war. The division joined the flag of People's Volunteer Army (Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) or Chinese Communist Forces (CCF)) during the Korean War. It was still a component of the 20th Corps, consisting of the 175th, 176th, and 177th Regiments. The 59th Division attacked Fox Company, 7th Marines north of Sinhung-ni at Toktong Pass during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. Underestimating U.S air and artillery power, the 59th Division experienced over 1,000 k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Mountain Infantry Division Cagliari
The 59th Quartermaster Company is a bulk petroleum company designed to provide semi-portable storage for of fuel and to provide distribution of fuel to military units within a specified geographic area while deployed overseas. Its secondary mission is to provide an armed military escort to military cargo and civilian trucks during overseas contingency operations. It is a U.S. Army Forces Command combat service support unit stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado under the command of the 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion. The 59th has deployed overseas to Algeria, Italy, France, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The 59th is the only bulk petroleum company in the Regular Army; all sister units are part of the Army Reserve as of 2011. Service history The unit was constituted into the Regular Army on 13 January 1941 as Company B, 240th Quartermaster Battalion and composed of African-American Soldiers. On 15 February 1944, the unit was redesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th (2nd North Midland) Division
The 59th (2nd North Midland) Division was an infantry Division (military), division of the British Army during World War I. It was formed in late 1914/early 1915 as a 2nd Line Territorial Force formation raised as a duplicate of the 46th (North Midland) Division. After training in the United Kingdom and saw service in the Easter Rising in April 1916, the division joined the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front (World War I), Western Front in early 1917. It saw action at Battle of Passchendaele, Ypres and Battle of Cambrai (1917), Cambrai, and was almost destroyed during the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army's German spring offensive, Spring Offensive in March 1918. The reconstituted division took part in the Hundred Days Offensive, final advances of the war. Origin The formation of Reserve or 2nd Line units of the Territorial Force (TF) was authorised on 31 August 1914, and the units were quickly formed from the floo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division
The 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed during the Second World War and fought in the Battle of Normandy. In March 1939, after Germany re-emerged as a significant military power and occupied Czechoslovakia, the British Army increased the number of divisions in the Territorial Army (TA) by duplicating existing units. The 59th (Staffordshire) Motor Division was formed in September 1939, as a second-line duplicate of the 55th (West Lancashire) Motor Division. The division's battalions were all, initially, raised in Staffordshire. Established using the motor division concept, the division was formed with only two infantry brigades, rather than the usual three for an infantry division, and was fully mobile. The intention was to increase battlefield mobility, enabling the motor divisions to follow armoured forces through breaches in the enemy frontline to rapidly consolidate captured territory. Following the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army. Its call sign was the . It was formed on 2 February 1942 at Jinan as a security (class C) division, simultaneously with 58th and 60th divisions. The nucleus for the formation was the 10th Independent Mixed Brigade. As a security division, the 59th Division's backbone consisted of independent infantry battalions, and it did not include an artillery regiment. Its men were drafted from Chiba Prefecture, with reinforcements office located in Kashiwa. The division was initially assigned to the 12th Army. Action Upon formation, the 59th Division assumed the security duties of the 10th Independent Mixed Brigade. First fighting against Chinese guerrillas started at Guantao County in June 1942. From August 1942, the division was engaged in an attempt to defeat the forces of Yu Xuezhong. From mid-November 1942, the division participated in the thrust to the east of Jinan, isolating the elements of the Chinese army on the Shan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
The 59th Infantry Division (russian: 59-я пехотная дивизия, ''59-ya Pekhotnaya Diviziya'') was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar .... Organization *1st Brigade **233rd Infantry Regiment **234th Infantry Regiment *2nd Brigade **235th Infantry Regiment **236th Infantry Regiment References {{Russian Empire Divisions Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Rifle Division (RSFSR)
The 59th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army. It was originally formed in 1932 as the 1st Kolkhoz Rifle Division, and redesignated as the 59th Rifle Division in 1936. The division spent World War II in the Primorye region and fought in the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. The division was disbanded several years after the war ended. History The division was formed in March 1932 as the 1st Kolkhoz Rifle Division, part of the Special Kolkhoz Corps of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army (OKDVA), covering the Grodekovo direction against expected Japanese attack with headquarters in Primorsky Oblast. A voluntary program to resettle demobilized Red Army soldiers and their families in the border areas of the Soviet Far East was established in 1929–1930, in order to increase the population and economic activity of such areas, supply food to the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, and to provide a force for its defense. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Guards Rifle Division
The 59th Quartermaster Company is a bulk petroleum company designed to provide semi-portable storage for of fuel and to provide distribution of fuel to military units within a specified geographic area while deployed overseas. Its secondary mission is to provide an armed military escort to military cargo and civilian trucks during overseas contingency operations. It is a U.S. Army Forces Command combat service support unit stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado under the command of the 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion. The 59th has deployed overseas to Algeria, Italy, France, Germany, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The 59th is the only bulk petroleum company in the Regular Army; all sister units are part of the Army Reserve as of 2011. Service history The unit was constituted into the Regular Army on 13 January 1941 as Company B, 240th Quartermaster Battalion and composed of African-American Soldiers. On 15 February 1944, the unit was redesign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The 59th Rifle Division () was an infantry division of the Red Army and briefly of the Soviet Army. It was originally formed in 1932 as the 1st Kolkhoz Rifle Division, and redesignated as the 59th Rifle Division in 1936. History Interwar period The division was formed in March 1932 as the 1st Kolkhoz Rifle Division, part of the Special Kolkhoz Corps of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, covering the Grodekovo direction against expected Japanese attack with headquarters in Primorsky Oblast. A voluntary program to resettle demobilized Red Army soldiers and their families in the border areas of the Soviet Far East was established in 1929–1930, in order to increase the population and economic activity of such areas, supply food to the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, and to provide a force for its defense. By 1932 42 Red Army Kolkhozes had been established under the program. However, due to labor shortages and a lack of construction materials, engineers, and technici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Division (Spain)
The 59th Division - originally called the 1st Asturian Division - was one of the divisions of the Spanish Republican Army that were organized during the Spanish Civil War on the basis of the Mixed Brigades. History The division was originally created in February 1937, as the 1st Asturian Division. It was incorporated into the III Asturian Army Corps. On August 6, the unit was restructured into the 189th, 190th and 191st mixed brigades and renamed the "59th Division". It became attached to the XVII Army Corps. It did not intervene in the Battle of Santander, so it was practically intact at the beginning of the Asturias Offensive. By then the 59th Division covered the front that ran from the sea to the mountains, in the Oviedo sector. During the Asturias campaign it did not have a relevant role, remaining in its positions without intervening in relevant military operations. At the end of October 1937 it managed to retire to Gijón Gijón () or () is a city and municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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