I was able to sit in a shady spot this afternoon and complete the reading of my 400 page book, "A Short History of World War II." It takes a strong stomach to read history but these things profoundly shaped the world we live in today so I am glad to have my knowledge of how things unfolded broadened to some degree.
As this conflict came to an end there were major instances of what is called 'house to house combat,' considered to be by far the most dangerous sort.
It intrigued me to read of several infantry divisions sent to do this on one side of the world, and several divisions doing it on the other side, etc. The reason for this is, as a Jehovah's Witness, I am well aware that many persons acknowledge that JWs teach the truth but they hold back from becoming Witnesses because they are intimidated by the house to house work the Bible assigns to Christians. And this seems not a little ironic considering, in time of war, whole divisions can muster the courage to do it in order to annihilate, or be annihilated by, mortal enemies. All we do is politely offer the Bible's message of coming peace.
Thinking on this I became curious about how many men, approximately, make up a "division." Not ever having been a military man I consulted my online Webster's. It said a division consists of three to five brigades.
Okay, now it was just a matter of finding out how many soldiers make up a brigade.
I looked it up and found it consists of one or more army units. Okay, let's see how many are in an army unit. Well, units are composed of two or more battalions. On to battalions. Again, no numbers. A battalion is two or more companies. I looked up company. It's two or more platoons. How many in a platoon? A platoon is two or more squads. I felt certain I must be at last zeroing in on a quantity of men. I looked up squad: "Large group of soldiers."
I quit.
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