Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived in North Africa. There he commanded the II Corps in the Seventh Army of George Patton. In that brutal and bloody campaign, U.S. troops learned how vastly different real war was from Tennessee maneuvers. Then the flamboyant George Patton overshadowed Bradley, but it was the quiet, bespectacled infantryman in the old trench coat who made the jittery divisions into a fighting machine. George Marshall wired him: "All our confidence in you has been justified...
More than 150 different military training programs have been evaluated by the committee in deciding on some 1500 cases that have already come before it. Barring repetition of Military Science courses already taken here, an infantryman who has undergone his regular 13-week basic training will receive credit for one full course, while the pilot officer from the Air Forces gets something like three full credits
Story of G.I. Joe (United Artists) is an attempt to picture the infantryman's war as the late Ernie Pyle saw it. Pyle himself (played in the film by Burgess Meredith) and nine fellow correspondents supervised and vouched for the movie's hard-bitten authenticity. The result is far & away the least glamorous war picture ever made. It is a movie without a single false note. It is not "entertainment" in the usual sense, but General Eisenhower called it "the greatest war picture I've ever seen...
...overall casualty ratio of about eight Japanese killed for every American dead or wounded was final proof of the superiority of the U.S. strategy of envelopment, U.S. field tactics, the U.S. infantryman's fighting skill, U.S. air power, sea power and fire power...
...Nazi general presenting a half-frozen infantryman with a choice between the Iron Cross and a suit of woolen underwear...