Word: cavalrymen
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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...
...faint light of the moon the Americans watched the Japanese creep toward them from the edge of the airstrip. Sometimes Japs crawled to the very edge of the cavalrymen's foxholes before they were killed. One major told me he was going to sleep in his hammock that night and suggested that I do the same thing. During the night, however, troops near by heard a commotion and the major called out: 'Don't shoot, boys, it's Major - !' Nothing more was heard. The next morning they found the major dead, his head nearly severed...
...same kind of warfare which unnerved U.S. troops on New Georgia last July. More Japs arrived from nearby Manus Island. Still the cavalrymen held...
...modern history. The story began in the early '30s when years of misrule under a senile, corrupt bureaucracy brought the ancient tension between the Chinese ruling minority and the Moslem Turko peasantry to the breaking point. From Kansu, the terminal province of the Great Wall, ferocious Tungan cavalrymen entered Sinkiang in 1931 under the leadership of a 26-year-old horseman-Ma Chung-ying. To his banners rallied Turko peasants and Tungan (Chinese Moslem) rebels. Burning, looting, raping, they all but annihilated the Chinese population in the south mountains...
...went softly to seed. A few-a very few-burned themselves out and annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...