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The 5th Cavalry Regiment ("Black Knights" [1]) is a historical unit of the United States Army that began its service on March 3, 1855, as the Second Cavalry Regiment. On August 3, 1861, it was redesignated as the 5th Cavalry Regiment following an act of Congress directing "that the two regiments of dragoons, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and the two regiments of cavalry shall hereafter be ...
40th Cavalry Regiment - 40th Armor Regiment was an armored regiment of the United States Army from 1941 until 1997. It was redesignated and reactivated in 2005 as the 40th Cavalry Regiment serving in the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division. [2]
The corps was formed on 19 November 1942 as the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps, assigned to the Northern Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front.Under the command of Major General Alexey Selivanov, the corps was assigned the 11th and 12th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Divisions, the 63rd Cavalry Division, and other units.
McGill joined the Army from Ada, Oklahoma in November 1940, [1] and by March 4, 1944, was serving as a Sergeant in Troop G, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.During an enemy attack on that day, on Los Negros in the Admiralty Islands, he held his ground against the numerically superior force.
The light armored cavalry regiment was developed in the United States Army in the first years of the Cold War to replace the mechanized cavalry groups used during World War II. The new regiments primarily tasked with providing reconnaissance and security capabilities at the corps level, although also able to attack and defend either mounted or ...
Before World War II the 106th Cavalry was a National Guard unit based in Chicago, Illinois. ... The 27th Cavalry Regiment was attached to the 5th Cavalry Brigade ...
The 5th passed through Paris 30 August to spearhead V Corps drive through the Compiègne Forest, across the Oise, Aisne, and Somme Rivers, and reached the Belgian border at Condé, 2 September. The division then turned east, advancing 100 miles in 8 hours, and crossed the Meuse at Charleville-Mézières , 4 September.
The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps [a] was a World War II cavalry corps of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party, primarily recruited from Cossacks.It was originally known as the XIV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps from September 1944, after Helmuth von Pannwitz's 1st Cossack Cavalry Division of the Wehrmacht was transferred to the SS, before being renumbered as XV in February 1945.