Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valor in an infantryman's heart, which causes him to go out to 'inevitable death' to save the lives of his fellows and to enable his company to advance against seemingly impossible odds, is the valor which cannot be taught to a man. He has it or he doesn't - Private Minue...
...mistaken notion that the Air Forces had the most dangerous job. No less an authority than Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, is responsible for the statement that thus far in World War II the infantry takes "more than half our total battle losses." The infantryman also "endures great hardships, he gets more tired, he sleeps less, and he eats when and what...
Actually the infantryman of today comes nearer to being a man of all weapons. Except for the airplane, the tank and the artillery, the infantry uses most of the weapons in the arsenal of a modern army: not only the rifle and bayonet but the Tommy gun, machine gun, mortar, hand and rifle grenades, bazooka, flame thrower, good-sized anti-tank artillery...
Sometimes the infantryman has trucks to transport him and vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there...
...drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...