Word: cannoneer
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...with D-day savagery. Its commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, was still in radio contact with Tokyo. Most of the defenders had ample food and water (although some isolated positions had been short of water in the first days of the campaign). They had only a few mortars and cannon left, but they used them often and well, and they had plenty of small arms. They survived day after day of air attack and ship bombardment...
...tougher. Allied victory there is sure, but the shape of victory depends to some extent on the Germans' choice. They may put up a prolonged display of Götterdämmerung fireworks in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria; or they may fizzle out like a wet cannon-cracker...
Along the highway south of the camp the rattle of automatic rifles was now heavily punctuated by cannon fire. Jap troops from the direction of Cabanatuan were trying to break through a cordon which the rescue party had thrown across the highway. The Japs were rumbling up in tanks...
Gregory Peck, who appeared previously in the unfortunate "Days of Glory," in which he had to shout his pretty nothings above the boom of cannon, has the quiet reserve and the shy grin of Gary Cooper; which is not to say that he is a second-rate Cooper--he's just a duplicate and will end up in westerns...
...recently came a note of reassurance from abashed users of the opprobrious phrase. Stars & Stripes Reporter Jimmy Cannon had asked a group of soldiers at the front how they felt. He reported: they don't give a damn what they're called...