Word: artillerymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...
...intervention Committee. No secret is it that by this "token" withdrawal both Dictator Benito Mussolini and Generalissimo Franco hope to persuade Britain and France to grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain. To New York Times Correspondent William P. Carney, however, Mr. Hemming said that Italian aviators, artillerymen and technicians as well as infantrymen ought to be withdrawn...
...Like all Army officers, Major General Johnson Hagood, Commander of the Eighth Corps Area, bridles when he thinks of how little the Army gets from the New Deal and how much other agencies get. Like most heavy artillerymen, General Hagood lacks neither brains nor tongue. Pleading for money for Army housing before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee last December, he spoke as follows: "[I am] not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money [but I understand that] there is budget money which is very hard to get; there is PWA money which...
This is one of the most interesting of the various stories told about the apes and was firmly believed by the British artillerymen who were stationed on the Rock during the World...
Near Bricchetto as his car passed a squad of sweating artillerymen tugging a 105-mm. gun up a hill, out popped Il Duce to take his place with the privates at the drag ropes...