Word: cavalrymen
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Some 3,000,000 will in a sense have dinner on a brisk, sandy-haired little man: Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It is he who is training the new Army's doughboys, anti-aircraftsmen, field artillerymen, tankers, cavalrymen-all except the airmen and the Services of Supply-for the toughest war any U.S. army ever had to fight...
...Rzhev. Six hundred miles to the north, west of Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
MOSCOW--Stalingrad's defenders have hurled back German forces which broke through their lines briefly Sunday to reach an important objective and in the Central Caucasus Cossack cavalrymen have stain 1700 of the enemy in two days' fighting the Russians announced today...
...Japanese had tried to make sure that hard-eyed General Pai Feng-hsiang and his army of 18,000 hard-riding cavalrymen would play no tricks. So the Japanese arranged a feast and invited the surly general. When the general died the same night, the Japanese said: "So sorry." Then they looked around for a friendlier leader...
...their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris of recent battles...