Word: infantryman
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...Germans closed in, Fox phoned for artillery fire directly on the building. An astonished artilleryman phoned back: "Is it safe to fire?" Said Fox: "Fire it. There's more of them than there are of us." After the Germans were beaten back, the bodies of heroic Infantryman Fox and his men were found in the demolished farmhouse...
...bureau chief in late June, was one of the first reporters to get to Korea when the war started. She flew to Seoul's Kimpo airfield, joined the retreat to Suwon, later covered the heartbreaking retreats of green, outnumbered U.S. troops. ("This is how America lost her first infantryman," she began her story of seeing Private Kenneth Shadrick fall in action.) She fought off attempts by officers, worried about her safety, to ship her out of Korea (TIME, July 24, 31), now stays at the front most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that...
...World War II infantryman who fought Germans in the snow will stop at this early point in Brave Company, a first novel by New Zealander Guthrie Wilson. Of all the books about the war so far written, it gives the truest picture of infantry fighting and living, has the clearest, least arty grasp of the fighting man's whole response to his smashing experience...
Against the champions of the other 47 states (and Cuba), Florida's Joan Pflueger of North Miami handled her 12-gauge gun with the ease of an old infantryman. From a 16-yd. handicap mark, blonde, self-contained Joan "smoked" (shattered to dust) 100 straight clay pigeons. That gave her a tie with four others. In a 75-bird shoot-off, Joan tightened up a bit: she missed one. The others missed more. Joan won by one shot from sharpshooting Texas Champion Dean Blank...
...cost the free world dearly in the past. From Korea last week, New York Timesman Richard J. H. Johnston reported in alarm that "the average G.I. seems not to know why he is fighting in Korea." "The recruiting posters didn't say anything about this," a young infantryman told him. "I'll fight for my country, but damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal...