Word: artillerymen
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...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...
...artillerymen fired pointblank into the Japs with fuses set at four-tenths of a second. They bounced their high explosive shells 50 yards in front of their guns and into the maniacal ranks. They manned their few machine guns and fired until the guns stopped from overheating. They fired their carbines until the ammunition was exhausted...
...wooded area just north of the field lay the results of the work of the artillerymen, and of the tankers and infantry who were now beginning to get back the lost ground. Not even on Tarawa were the Japs piled up so densely. In one area no more than a hundred yards square I counted more than 200 of them...