Word: infantryman
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...proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas, thorough in getting them into execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges-fostered items: the jeep, the new-type helmet, the rapid-firing carbine...
...first retirement for two more hours. His tired old-young face, lean as a shell splinter, mirrored his doubt, his brief hope that he could hold, and finally his resolve to save what he had left for another day. He made that decision only after an infantryman from the fragile line near the town burst into the C.P. His face was bleeding slightly, his eyes were glazed. He could hardly talk until the troop medico had patched and soothed him. Then he said, still stammering, that German tanks had broken into the infantry line...
...Department recently put out a circular awarding the Combat Infantryman Badge to all (frontline) infantry units for exemplary action in combat. Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Medical Department and Corps of Chaplains were not considered eligible for the award...
...contrast to his opposite number, noisy, dashing George Patton, Hodges is a sober, soft-voiced professional with a clipped grey mustache; like Bradley, he is a solid infantryman. Unlike Bradley he went only one year to West Point; then enlisted and fought his way up the ranks...
...Plane for a Horse. On the first day of World War I, Coningham enlisted as an infantryman. Later he bought a horse, joined a cavalry outfit and went to Egypt. There he caught dysentery and enteric, dropped in weight from 170 to 98 lbs., was invalided home. Well again after six months, he went to England, joined the Royal Flying Corps, won the Military Cross and the D.S.O. during a single month. He stayed on in the Royal Air Force after the war, won the Air Force Cross in 1925 for leading a 5,600-mile flight of three...