Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise, the Dutch mined all roads and bridges entering their country from Germany. They erected tank obstructions and traps, leaving only one lane open for normal traffic on each highway bridge. Their Army stood mobilized at about 650,000 under Lieut. General I. H. Reynbers, 60, a short, jolly infantryman who was the personal appointee of Queen Wilhelmina five years...
Stripping British subjects in Tientsin or bayonetting Chinese irregulars in Shansi, the Japanese infantryman is backed up by an Air Force that has "Made in the U. S. A." on many an airplane, engine, propeller, parachute. This week the Department of Commerce published its latest figures on aeronautical exports to Japan: $1,665,389 for the first five months of 1939. Total to other countries (Britain the chief customer...
...story, as told by a simple Japanese infantryman in letters to his family, has a naive charm until readers recall that "Ashihei Hino" is really Katsunori Tamai, known to a highbrow handful of Japanese readers for his The Warship on the Mountain, The Fish with Poison, for which in the past two years he has won Japan's highest Akutagawa Prize for literature. Translater is pacifist Birth-Controller Baroness Shidzué Ishimoto, who translated the book out of "deep devotion to my country...
...killed & wounded in one day of intense attack, more often was no to 150. Guessing for the next war, the U. S. Medical Corps expects 150 daily casualties (24 killed, 96 shot & wounded, 30 gassed) out of every 1,000 infantrymen in action. Whole armies, having one infantryman to two in other services and a big proportion of their troops in reserve, may expect an overall casualty rate...
...intensely quiet six-footer with blue eyes, greying hair, lean frame. He hunts, fishes, rides when he has the chance (although always an infantryman), devours history and biography. He loathes big Army parties, prefers to go picnicking with his second wife and her children. On duty he is severe, demands top-flight work in short hours. "Nobody ever has an original thought after 3 p. m.," he says...