Word: artillerymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were U.S. paratroopers, specially trained for this kind of jungle blitz. They flopped down hurriedly into the tall Kunai grass of the valley. Australian artillerymen with their guns dropped down after them. The Aussies had had only a week's training and only one practice jump, but they took the leap gamely. Australian pioneers, who had made a five-day trek overland, joined the U.S. and Australian paratroopers...
...France, artillery fire went down 200 yards ahead of troops, who crept within 100 yards waiting for it to lift before attacking. Occasional shorts were inevitable, and infantry learned to expect 2% casualties from its own supporting artillery. Foot soldiers' traditional greeting to artillerymen was two raised fingers, like Winston Churchill's "V" signal...
...Hills. Fanny Rouge and hundreds of planes like her grew out of 1940's Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana. Then artillerymen exploded after futile searches for hills high enough for observation posts or long waits for observation planes from the Air Corps. One West Pointer, Major (now Colonel) William Wallace Ford, a private flyer for seven years, knew the solution: light planes attached to each field-artillery .battalion. Wallie Ford made little headway until the next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed...
...Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...
Visitors to the Museum saw such subjects as: "Elisofon and his two Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...