Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, commandless since his removal from the China-Burma-India Theater (TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
...good, because it took away the idea that this war was any different than what we had been trained for. You can't kid the infantry; they know they've got to go in and do the fighting; and Bradley was an ex-infantryman. It inspired confidence...
Sergeant George Baker's "Sad Sack" is a hilarious caricature. But Sergeant Bill Mauldin's weary, grimy, unshaven "Joe," the "Old Bill" of World War II, is by G.I. testimony grimly true to life. Quiet, babyfaced, 23-year-old Cartoonist Mauldin can draw the infantryman truthfully because he has been one himself since he was 18. He has fought and drawn his way through the campaign in Sicily, wears the Purple Heart for wounds received in Italy. "Joe" is beside, behind and ahead of him right now on the southern front in France...
...proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas, thorough in getting them into execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges-fostered items: the jeep, the new-type helmet, the rapid-firing carbine...
Then the bad news began. In March they heard that 28-year-old Clyde, a Marine, had been killed in the Solomons. May brought word that LeRoy, 30, an infantryman, had died in Italy. In August, Rolon, 19, was killed on a bombing mission over Europe. Last month, Rulon, Rolon's twin, was reported missing in action...