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The relief depicts an actual event: Shaw, scion of a prominent abolitionist family, is on horseback leading one of the conflict’s first black regiments off to the front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
West of Cairo, Egypt’s capital, a beautifully tended cemetery, roses and all, carries the graves of many of Montgomery’s Eighth Army, their names and regiments carefully inscribed on the pink limestone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The papers appear to be connected to British Army regiments and barracks at Catterick Garrison.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
The pipers' tunes were used to identify different regiments.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
The two regiments flew together until the end of the war, starting with the 587th’s very first combat mission on January 28, 1943.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
