Word: artillerymen
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...Vegas, Nev. had not seen so many soldiers since World War II. Every evening, swarms of shouting, jostling officers and G.I.s from every branch of the service -paratroopers, artillerymen, medics, engineers-roamed the streets and filled the gambling palaces. The hotels were jammed with high brass, and the big silvery transports sweeping down on McCarran Field kept adding to the flood. Then the planes stopped coming in, the khaki-clad Army abruptly vanished. Out on the desert, 65 miles away, 5.000 hand-picked troops were getting their final briefing before Exercise Desert Rock-the G.I.'s introduction to atomic...
Five hundred thousand people lined the streets to see the MacArthurs arrive. Glenn McCarthy had outdone himself. He had not only strung an electric sign "Welcome General Douglas MacArthur" across the facade of the Shamrock, but had provided artillerymen who fired a 17-gun salute when the general got to the hotel. A $250-a-day suite-provided with two butlers in red tail coats and green pants-was ready for the distinguished visitor...
Politically, this had taken a handsome international bargaining point from the Chinese Communists, who had hoped to intimidate the United Nations by the threat of their "inevitable victory in Korea. Militarily, the U.N. army had regained its self-confidence and vindicated the contention of U.S. artillerymen that a compact, mobile fighting force, long on organization and heavy in firepower can stand up against the mass levies of a Communist war machine...
...week's end, the Communists had taken casualties estimated at 33,000. South of Seoul, Puerto Rican G.I.s literally annihilated a Communist regiment; after a round-the-clock shelling north of Ichon, U.S. artillerymen reported 1,100 Chinese Reds dead in their foxholes. At Wonju and Chechon the hills were littered with enemy dead and abandoned weapons. U.N. planes dropped leaflets over the Communist lines; on them was printed a terse "Count your...
...enemy makes gun positions the special targets of his infiltrating units. Because there is seldom enough infantry to protect them, artillerymen often have to double as foot soldiers. It is not unusual in Korea to see a battery with its guns drawn up pointing outward in a circle, its gunners ready to fight off enemy infantry with rifles and point-blank artillery fire. One battery has been attacked eight times by Red infantry. Said Lieut. Charles Skinner: "This isn't like the last war in Europe, where the front lines were in front of your guns. Here, the front...