Word: artillerymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given 17 weeks of basic recruit training. Picked men get additional specialized, technical or officer training. Then they are shipped overseas in a casual company, put in a replacement depot for sorting over, finally sent to the manpower stockpile for eventual use as tankmen, artillerymen, infantrymen-whatever they have been tagged. Between induction call and combat may be only ten months...
...been vastly underestimated. Meanwhile, airmen, aircraft and airborne bombs had top priority. The airmen were not only asked to knock out German industry. They were also used as a swift, mobile artillery for the infantry. Thus, in the arsenals, artillery ammunition was cut back. But now the commanders restored artillerymen to their historic role of blasting the way for the infantry. At home, this meant a sudden shift back to production of artillery ammunition...
...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...
...joint product of Harvard and the University of California. It is made of soft vinylite plastic, fits into the outer ear with flanges both inside and out, to seal off air waves and hold it in place. It has heretofore been made exclusively for Navy gunners and Army artillerymen, but may now become a major item in speeding up plane production...
...Blockade. These long-overdue reforms, if implemented in time, could rejuvenate the wearied Chinese Army. So could U.S. artillerymen who, by Jap account, were being flown to China by the hundreds. But the Chinese would still need supplies from the west. To open a supply route, their tattered Chinese divisions fought harder last week up & down the heartbreaking, jungle-clad ridges of the Salween River front, aiming to join with General Stilwell's army pushing east from Myitkyina...