Word: artillerymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army engineers eventually cut roads to the main positions; signalmen laid telephone cables. Otherwise, the artillerymen did it all themselves...
...that group of airmen who foresaw the coming role of air power many year ago, and insisted on an intensive program of offensive and defensive preparation. In German, Italy, and Russia the prophets got their gospel across, with results that must by now convince even retired admirals and artillerymen. But in this country, as in England and France, army and navy opposition blocked the full development of aviation. so this book, to a large extend, is Major Williams thumbing his nose at the admirals and generals...
Ground forces then on the island were hardly worth hiding: a few Regular Army battalions of engineers, artillerymen, coast artillerymen (antiaircraft) sent over from the continental U.S., plus some 14,000 Puerto Rican recruits who had been taken into expanded Regular Army units, or into two Puerto Rican National Guard regiments. All the Puerto Ricans were volunteers. To miserable, jobless and underpaid natives from San Juan's hellish slums, or from the poverty-ridden countryside, the Army's $21 a month looked like a fortune. These unfortunates, underfed, underbred, did the best they could in U.S. uniforms. They...
What worries the Army and Navy more is the constantly widening radius of possible attack on the Canal. Whenever the range of bombers lengthens, that radius lengthens. Even the Coast Artillerymen who man the great, fixed guns at the Canal entrances place no great faith in such emplacements. No enemy fleet is likely to come within range while the Canal is still intact. Coast Artillery anti-aircraft men, although they could use more and better guns, have gone into the jungles, placed and manned what guns they have there, done a heroic job of soldiering. But they, too, have...
...troop carriers with caterpillar treads). Each infantry outfit was followed by a battalion of artillery with 75-mm. guns (soon to be replaced by the new 105-mm. howitzers). Farther back came the division's big guns, a battalion of bigmouthed, ugly 155s. Like the other artillerymen, its gun crews rode on big trucks (soldiers call them "prime movers...