Word: infantryman
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Died. Jacques Thibaud, 72, famed French violin virtuoso; in an airline crash near Barcelonnette in the French Alps. Ardent Patriot Thibaud fought as an infantryman in World War I, and before and during World War II turned down all offers to play in Hitler's Germany. In 1947, still spry and healthy, he made his last U.S. appearance with the New York Philharmonic, devoted most of his last years to encouraging a new generation of young violinists and pianists...
Being a war correspondent in the 1860s was in some ways tougher than being an infantryman. The foot soldier had to contend with nothing worse than mud, hardtack and the enemy's shot & shell. The war correspondent had to face all these things plus the wrath and distrust of such generals as William Tecumseh Sherman: "Dirty newspaper scribblers." Sherman called them. "They come into camp, poke about among the lazy shirks and pick up their camp rumors and publish them as facts ... I will treat them as spies, which in truth they...
...Korea columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...
...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
World War II: Known as a good infantryman who knew how to train others, went to England in 1942 to command all U.S. ground forces in the Euro pean Theater of Operations. In October 1942, in a daring sortie, went by submarine to the North African coast, paddled a canoe ashore, where with Bob Murphy his helped to plan Allied invasion landings with French officers; lost his pants on the way back when the canoe capsized, but won promotion to lieutenant general, thus at 46 became the youngest three-star general in U.S. history up to that time. (His record...