Word: infantryman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cold rain began falling. "The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward," one German general recounted. "All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in slime." The first snow fell on Oct. 6. A month later, the temperatures fell below zero. Tank engines began to freeze. The troops, who had been issued no winter clothing, suffered frostbite...
...next day in Berlin, in the ornate Kroll Opera, where the Reichstag had met ever since a mysterious outbreak of arson gutted its traditional headquarters in 1933, Chancellor Hitler arrived wearing the "sacred coat" of the German infantryman and used the crudely faked fracas in Gleiwitz to justify his invasion of Poland. "For the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory," he told the brown-shirted deputies. "Since 5:45 a.m. we have been returning the fire, and from now on bombs will be met with bombs...
JUDGING from his service as an infantryman in the Pacific theater during World War II, Derwinski himself is probably not a Nazi sympathizer. There is no reason to believe Derwinski is anti-Semetic or pro-fascist...
IMAGINE HERDS of wild boars (HGGPAVs), cleverly driven across Communist borders at the onset of a crisis, roaming free behind enemy lines. Heaven help the Warsaw Pact's air force! Then consider the boars' utility as anti-personnel weapons. An AK-47-toting infantryman who thinks nothing of charging fortified NATO positions will quake in his boots when he sees a ton of angry pork charging...
...Stone, Dye found a kindred spirit who wanted Platoon's actors to experience the fatigue, frayed nerves and fear that preyed on the Viet Nam infantryman and to understand the casual brutality that often emerged. Willem Dafoe, who plays Sergeant Elias, the platoon's conscience, recalls that "we certainly did get some taste of exhaustion, frustration and confusion." Tom Berenger, who plays the soul-dead Sergeant Barnes, agrees. "We didn't even have to act. We were there...