Word: cannoneer
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This was the Ukraine in spring: sparkling puddles, shell craters, blistered, blackened tanks, the sullen stench of battle and unburied soldiers. Along the muddy roads, Red Army tractors tugged at stalled trucks and mired cannon. Red artillerymen whipped their foamy horses. Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle...
...Decision. Years ago Nikolai Nikolayevich Voronov, Chief Marshal of Red Artillery, a giant of a man with the soul of a great professional soldier, had staked his reputation and his country's fate on the cannon. German generals, whom he would ultimately fight, went in for newer-fangled things. They built their army around the team of tank and plane...
Artilleryman's Progress. At his headquarters, the giant smiled; there was no substitute for cannon. He read the reports streaming in, studied maps, made plans for new action. He was in rare humor...
...great Army purge, of unease and turbulence. Mikhail Tukhachevsky had been "liquidated," and his death left a vacuum in leadership and military thought. Unostentatiously, Voronov moved into the gap. He tightened discipline, increased the number of artillery schools, devised a new system of training, opened special schools for cannon-struck youngsters...
Tradition and Ideas. From Peter the Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...