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...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...
...Mencken (The American Language): "Doughboy is an old English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...
...last week's battle thousands of Rumanians laid down their arms. One group emerged from a forest hideout, begged Cossack cavalrymen: "Please take us prisoners!" The scornful Russians cried, "Back there! Back there!" sent them into internment without guards...
Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...
Some of the Nips embraced death with a song on their lips, "Deep in the Heart of Texas," which gave wry satisfaction to the Texas cavalrymen who killed them. The survivors of the blast of U.S. fire ended it all by hugging grenades and pulling the pins. Said an American general veteran of the last war, "the strangest thing I have ever witnessed...