Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been unloaded earlier from eight Alouette helicopters, took up positions around the barracks, at neighboring apartment buildings and along the highway. As two helicopter gunships whirled overhead loosing random bursts of fire, the paratroopers advanced, after a fashion, on the barracks. The Shootout lasted scarcely an hour. One infantryman was killed, and 18 were wounded...
From jungle to jungle goes Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, 52, late of the Imperial Japanese Army. Since last March when Onoda emerged from the Philippine jungle where he personally continued to wage World War II for 29 years, the doughty infantryman has been mulling over his future habitat. Finally he settled on Brazil. "It offered me many more job opportunities than Japan," he said as he learned how to samba in a Rio nightspot. He was not referring to Brazil's secret police, who war against enemies of the state, but to a farm in the interior...
...served as a Marine infantryman in Viet Nam, where I saw one of my best friends killed and where I was severely wounded. I now realize how purposeless that war was, and I believe that the U.S. was wrong to get involved. All those who resisted serving in Viet Nam should get unconditional amnesty. They should not be punished just because they recognized the foolishness of our involvement sooner than most...
...Author Thomas G. Wheeler picks bones of a more literal sort. His quite confident contention is that Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides never contained the body of the Emperor. The corpse reburied there in 1840 was a look-alike named Eugène Robeaud. This impostor, an infantryman chosen by Napoleon's secret police to stand in for the Emperor at various ceremonial and public functions, was eventually smuggled onto St. Helena in 1818 and substituted for the exiled Napoleon as a British prisoner. According to Wheeler, Robeaud soon died of arsenic poisoning. The real Napoleon secretly...
...electronic antidote may also be found for the new antitank missiles. One U.S. Army systems analyst insists that missiles will no more make the tank obsolete than the invention of the machine gun made the infantryman obsolete. The mechanized unit, which includes tanks, will still be needed to provide armies with speed, firepower and shock action on the ground. "The stakes of armored warfare have merely been raised," this analyst adds. "It will just be a lot more bloody than before...