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The Blue Regiment or the Blue Brigade was an infantry regiment in the service of Gustav II Adolph during his campaigns in Germany in the Thirty Years' War. A large portion of the regiment was made up of German mercenaries, who were a common phenomenon on both sides. The regiment's name is derived from the blue colored uniforms worn by the ...
Blue Brigade, a Swedish brigade in the service of Gustav II Adolph during his campaigns in Germany in the Thirty Years' War; Blue Brigade, a Swedish Army armored brigade active from 1949 to 1979; 66th Brigade (People's Republic of China), a fighter aircraft BLUEFOR unit also known as the Blue Brigade; Finnish 3rd Brigade (Continuation War ...
The 250th Infantry Division (German: 250. Infanterie-Division), better known as the Blue Division (Spanish: División Azul, German: Blaue Division), was a unit of volunteers from Francoist Spain operating from 1941 to 1943 within the German Army (Heer) on the Eastern Front during World War II.
The brigade adopted its name after the original Blue Brigade and thus became Sweden's second active guard brigade after the Yellow Brigade (IB 1). In the early 1970s, the brigade and the regiment became the subject of the Swedish Armed Forces Peace Organization Investigation ( Försvarets fredsorganisationsutredning , FFU), which investigated ...
Hand's Brigade - Colonel Erik Hand Östergötland Infantry Regiment (8 companies) - Colonel Erik Hand (Swedish) Dalsland Infantry Squadron (4 companies) - Colonel Wilhelm von Salzburg (Swedish) Västergötland Infantry Regiment (8 companies) - Colonel Karl Hård af Segerstad (Swedish) "Blue" Brigade - Gen. Hans Georg aus dem Winckel (German)
The Blue Brigade (PB 6) was raised in 1949 and was organized following the Pansarbrigad 49 ("Armoured Brigade 49") unit type. According to the Defence Act of 1972, the brigade was disbanded on 30 June 1980. In connection with the Defence Act of 1942, infantry regiments came to be raised as "field regiments" and "duplication regiments".
"The Avengers of Bataan" This is today's 38th Sustainment Brigade. 40th Infantry Division "Sunshine" – the badge is a gold sunburst on a blue background. "Ball of Fire" – Nickname adopted during its deployment to Korea. "Flaming Assholes" – The unofficial nickname came from the Korean War era when the unit was training in Japan.
The 93rd Infantry Division was a "colored" segregated unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.However, in World War I only its four infantry regiments, two brigade headquarters, and a provisional division headquarters were organized, and the divisional and brigade headquarters were demobilized in May 1918.