Word: artillerymen
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...burly shoulders did not fit some of the narrow trenches, and his clothes were soon dirtied and stained with yellow sand. He paced three or four miles of trenches, winding up at an artillery observation post. Through telescopic sights he peered at a Japanese position where two lazy Japanese artillerymen stood in the mouth of their emplacement...
McNaughton applied his genius for analysis to the theory and practice of artillery fire, and artillerymen of all armies recognize his contributions to their art. He brought centralized fire control to a new point of efficiency (see p. 72). He worked his men as though they were his pupils in a laboratory. Said one of them last week: "McNaughton had us on hilltops, in trees, day and night, clocking the enemy firing, until he had located every enemy battery on our front. He had us out digging craters for shell fragments until he knew the exact size of every enemy...
...occupied about 7% (some 580,000 sq. mi.) of Russia's land, but they had not conquered Russia. They had destroyed or captured upwards of 4,500,000 Red soldiers, 15,000 Red tanks, 9,000 Red planes. But they had not destroyed the Red Army. German artillerymen photographed Leningrad through their telescopes. But they had not captured Leningrad, with its mastery of the Baltic, its way to Murmansk and the Murmansk supply route. The swastika flew within 115 miles of Moscow. But the Germans had not tak en the U.S.S.R.'s heart and capital, the vast railway...
...command "Press in review," given by Cadet Colonel James G. Hayes. Regimental Commander of the Army ROTC, the long times of field artillerymen. Quartermasters, Naval Reservists and Naval Supply units moved out of their positions. The band struck up the field artillery "Caisson Song" as the massed batteries paraded across the field toward the spectators, then wheeled to the left to pass before the reviewing stand. The 3000 onlookers stoop up in the stands to view the massed columns, with flag dipped and eyes right, pass before the reviewing stand
...bull's-eye, too. To The Rock's artillerymen, the roads, hills and valleys of Bataan were as familiar as the vein pattern on the backs of their hairy hands. They had the range of every position behind Mariveles. The Jap found that out as battery after battery was smashed and silenced. When he tried to move up more guns, the sharp-eyed observers on The Rock spotted his dust, called for fire, and got it. Bereft of aerial observation, which would have made things much simpler, the men on Corregidor were doing their best...