Word: artillerymen
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...artillerymen, getting set to raze the monument, learned that it contained a handful of Allied prisoners. Two U.S. officers went up to parley with the German colonel. They had dinner with him, smoked his cigars. At 2 a.m. a white flag went up over the "Battle of the Nations" monument...
Along every mile of the 25-mile sector he had chosen to smash, Marshal Konev had lined 300 to 400 guns-long-barreled giants, stubby, deep-throated howitzers, crackling light fieldpieces. On row upon row of U.S.-made trucks were batteries of Katushas, the rocket-projecting pride of Soviet artillerymen...
...first everything was wild confusion. Germans suddenly appeared over the crest of hills and shot up towns. They overran rear-area supply points, pounced upon U.S. artillerymen before they could get to their guns. Germans surrounded a field of artillery-spotting planes, whose pilots were fast asleep. U.S. divisional generals found their command posts the centers of battles, their defenders hastily armed cooks, clerks, medics, runners. Trucks filled with German soldiers dashed through areas where rear-echelon G.I.s went about their routine tasks...
...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...