Word: artillerymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moulmein fell. Sweat-wet, bare-backed British artillerymen fired point-blank into the advancing Japanese, piled them in shredded heaps. U.S. volunteer pilots strafed them. British bayonets stabbed them. Riflemen and machine-gunners tore their advancing ranks on the open flats before the city. But the Japs came on. From Moulmein they drove the outnumbered, outgunned British across the broad Salween River. There, behind the river barrier, the British took their stand between the Japanese and the prize they were fighting for: mastery of strategic Rangoon, of the Burma Road to China, of the invasion road to India...
...crooner with the deceptively loafing air and unsinkable savvy put on the first request show for the U.S. Front. He walked through it as usual, easing around the Hollywood studio in a blue slack suit, looking, without his movie toupee, like a rapid-fire kewpie. For MacArthur's artillerymen he sang Those Caissons Go Rolling Along-and added "those 155s keep dishing...
...Artillerymen cleaned and reset their pieces, stacked ammunition in orderly piles. Their infantry comrades of the 1st Defense Battalion, U.S.M.C., worked at their rifles, dug entrenchments for the last stand, squinted critically at bright bayonets. The remainder of 1,000 A.F. of L. workmen who had been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...
From the sandy shore and the swamp beyond, artillery flamed. A U.S. gunner named Johnny Jones plunked two 75-mm. shells into a transport at the water line. It sank. Other transports were sunk by artillerymen working under fire from Jap destroyers and a cruiser or two. Barges loaded with Jap soldiers were battered into bloody, waterlogged messes. But farther up the shore the Japs got ashore and moved down, attacking the defenders as more invaders landed behind them...
From other posts the Army got tankers, artillerymen, engineers, cavalrymen, ordnancemen. Signal Corps officers, medical administrative men. And other fresh blood is pouring into the Army. From U.S. colleges this summer have come 8,000 graduates, with four years' R.O.T.C. training behind them-not finished officers but good officer material...