Word: infantryman
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...wanted his audience (a group of New England manufacturers) to realize, however, that there was no "easy and popular way to armed security." Air power was the primary attack weapon, but in the long run, said Infantryman Bradley, "a war between nations is reduced to one man defending his land while another tries to invade it. Whatever the devastation of his cities and the disorder in his existence, man will not be conquered until you fight him for his life...
...general fell into step beside the young infantryman and together they plodded toward the Rhine...
Prizewinner Gleitsmann fought as an infantryman in Patron's Third Army, came back with a drooping mustache and, "for the first time in my life-something to say in paint...
...year-old infantryman was a gay and awesome fighter in the lines. In North Africa he once put on a one-man show that resulted in the capture of almost 600 Italians. In the rear areas he was a holy terror. He liked to wear officers' uniforms, or bits of uniforms from several different armies. He consistently roamed away from his guard duty post, would walk a mile to avoid a salute...
...most combat men, he was "Patton," their general and a good one, but they were seldom taken in by the publicity Patton courted. Most line troops resented his flashy, self-designed uniforms, sardonically muttered "our blood and his guts," when they heard his pre-battle exhortations. No Third Army infantryman could have written such stuff-&-nonsense as this: "An attack might appear suicidal, but if 'Georgie' ordered it, it was accepted as a sound and tenable mission...